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(Português) Assassinatos por Drones
Emir Sader – Carta Maior,
29 Jul 2013
“Eu soube que meu neto de 16 anos, Abduirhman – um cidadão norte-americano –, foi morto por um drone norte-americano. Um míssil matou-o, assim como seu primo e pelo menos outras cinco pessoas, enquanto eles estavam jantando em um restaurante ao ar livre, no sul do Iêmen”.
→ read full articleWaterborne Radioactive Levels in Fukushima Plant Pit Unchanged from 2011
The Asahi Shimbun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
Water in a pit on the grounds of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has been found to contain high levels of radioactive substances, the plant operator said July 27, 2013. 2.35 billion becquerels of radioactive cesium were detected per liter of water on July 26 in the No. 2 reactor. The breakdown was 750 million becquerels of cesium-134 and 1.6 billion becquerels of cesium-137.
→ read full articleGarry Davis: « And Now the People Have the Floor »
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
Garry Davis, who died 24 July 2013, in Burlington, Vermont, was often called “World Citizen N°1”. The title was not strictly exact as the organized world citizen movement began in England in 1937 by Hugh J. Shonfield and his Commonwealth of World Citizens, followed in 1938 by the creation jointly in the USA and England of the World Citizen Association.
→ read full articleHalliburton Admits Guilt in Gulf of Mexico Cover-Up
Richard Smallteacher - CorpWatch,
29 Jul 2013
Halliburton has admitted that it destroyed evidence after the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. The company has agreed to pay a $200,000 fine, make a donation of $55 million to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and accept three years of probation.
→ read full articleAfter
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
After the fun, after the shooting spree,
this is the part we did not want to see—
Two groups of victims on a smoking plain,
one armed with tanks, the other armed with pain.
Global Power Project, Part 7: Banking on Influence with Citigroup
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
Over ensuing decades and mergers it eventually came to be Citibank, and in the late 1990s, Citigroup. At that time, the bank was dealing with accusations that it had aided in the laundering of roughly $100 million in payoffs by Mexican drug cartels. In 2000, the mega-bank was accused of abusing borrowers and clients through predatory lending practices.
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What the Media Isn’t Telling You about War in Syria
Ben Swann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
Full Disclosure – Ben Swann Is an Investigative Journalist
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What Hiroshima & the Iraq War Have in Common
Prof. Michio Kaku – Russia Today,
29 Jul 2013
Oksana Boyko is joined by Dr Michio Kaku, a world-renowned theoretical physicist, author, thinker and visionary. The technological revolution of the 20th century has brought the world unprecedented prosperity as well as unimaginable horrors. Will science liberate humanity or shackle it like never before?
→ read full articleProtecting Whistleblowers
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
We need a new global ethic, an ethic as advanced as our technology. Of course we can continue to be loyal to our families, our localities and our countries. But this must be supplemented by a higher loyalty: a loyalty to humanity as a whole.
→ read full articleBye, Mom
TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
A couple were going out for the evening. They were ready and all dressed up as the taxi arrived.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Tutu Says He Cannot Worship ‘Homophobic’ God
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
South African peace icon Desmond Tutu has said he would rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God, likening the fight against gay prejudice to the anti-apartheid struggle. Tutu made the comments on Friday [26 Jul 2013] at the launch of a United Nations gay equality campaign in Cape Town.
→ read full articleBee Apocalypse Now: Scientists Discover What’s Killing the Bees and It’s Worse Than You Thought
Todd Woody, Quartz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
In a first-of-its-kind study published today in the journal PLOS ONE [24 Jul 2013], scientists at the University of Maryland and the US Department of Agriculture have identified a witch’s brew of pesticides and fungicides contaminating pollen that bees collect to feed their hives. The findings break new ground on why large numbers of bees are dying.
→ read full articleReimagining Principles Enabling an Existential Ecostery
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
There are many elaborations of fundamental principles to which people are encouraged to subscribe as a key to appropriate behaviour and understanding — notably of world order. Examples include the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Ten Commandments of the Bible, or the elements of a Global Ethic. Human rights are now readily used as a decorative fig leaf to disguise agendas thereby hidden.
→ read full articleGeopolitical Winds Blow in China’s Direction
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
Among those who comment influentially from the sidelines of power, there are new trends visible in thinking about American foreign policy.
→ read full articleSean MacBride Peace Prize 2013 Awarded to US Whistleblower BRADLEY MANNING
International Peace Bureau, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
The International Peace Bureau is delighted to announce that this year’s Sean MacBride Peace Prize is to be awarded to Bradley Manning, the US whistleblower whose case has attracted worldwide attention, for his courageous actions in revealing information about US war crimes.
→ read full articleA Government with Many Secrets Is Not a Democracy
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
President Obama has initiated an enormous Stasi-like program called “Insider Threats”, which forces millions of federal employees to spy on each other. It extends beyond the US national security bureaucracies to most federal departments and agencies nationwide, including the Peace Corps, the Social Security Administration, and the Education and Agriculture Departments.”
→ read full articleIndian People’s Charter on Nuclear Energy
Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
Nuclear energy is today widely seen as posing a threat to the life, livelihoods and the environment, not least because it can have irreversible catastrophic consequences and radiation effects spanning across generations. Chernobyl, followed by the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan has led to global rethinking on the pursuit of nuclear energy.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Real Subversives: FBI Spying Then, NSA Surveillance Now
Amy Goodman – The Guardian,
29 Jul 2013
As the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington approaches, commemorating that historic gathering where Martin Luther King Jr gave his famous “I have a dream” speech, it is important to recall the extent to which King was targeted by the government’s domestic spying apparatus.
→ read full articleHow We Are Impoverished, Gentrified and Silenced – And What to Do About It
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
Momentous change almost always begins with the courage of people taking back their own lives against the odds. There is no other way now. Direct action. Civil disobedience. Unerring. Read Percy Shelley – “Ye are many; they are few”. And do it.
→ read full articleSystems of Alternative Defense for States
Johan Galtung, 23 Jul 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2013
A country based on security through peace, nonaligned, useful to others, invulnerable, mediating relevant conflicts and traumas, high on empathy and equitable projects, only non-provocative arms, prepared to defend its borders and any part of its territory with military and nonmilitary defense and a Ministry of Peace; attack very unlikely.
→ read full articleKudankulam May Renew US Firms’ Focus on Nuke Sector
M. Ramesh – The Hindu,
23 Jul 2013
A few months ago, this correspondent asked an American diplomat during the course of a friendly, off-the-record conversation, if the US was covertly behind all the protests against the Kudankulam nuclear power plant. The diplomat laughed thoroughly.
→ read full article68 Years Ago: The Nuclear Age Is Born—Amid Secrecy, Cover-up and Radiation Threat
Greg Mitchell – The Nation,
23 Jul 2013
While most people trace the dawn of the nuclear era to August 6, 1945, and the dropping of the atomic bomb over the center of Hiroshima, it really began three weeks earlier, in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, with the top-secret Trinity test. Its sixty-eighth anniversary is marked—or mourned, if you will—on July 16.
→ read full articleJapan’s Constitutional Changes Could Echo through Asia
National Constitution Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Possible changes to Japan’s constitution may restrict some rights and expand its military, having implications regionally and even in America. They also raise a basic question: Should it be easy to change a constitution?
→ read full articleIndia’s Children
S.P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Our Children
Born malnourished and underweight
Get hopeless education
Eat mid-day meals and even get killed
Egypt: On Why Only an Inclusive Transition Is the Only Solution to Civil Strife and Regional Instability
Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
It now seems that the first popular uprising associated with the now famous names of Tahrir square and the Arab Spring had little more than symbolic significance to the Egyptian populace. Not because it didn’t result in the downfall of Hosni Mubarak, the country’s long-reigning dictator, but because it led to the hijacking of the revolution by the Muslim Brotherhood.
→ read full article(Italiano) La Micro-Gestione USA del Mondo
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Cosa c’è di nuovo a proposito di PRISM-TEMPORA di marchio USA-Regno Unito? Il dito sul dominio – con lo scopo di spiare il resto del mondo – l’enorme impiego di operatori esperti della rete, e la palese prima linea: Anglo-America contro il Resto del mondo, inclusi i soci membri dell’UE. Se tutto ciò fosse stato fatto da stati più piccoli, le relazioni bilaterali con loro sarebbero state sospese, declassate, e la loro appartenenza all’UE revocata. Per quanto tempo ancora USA e Regno Unito sfuggiranno all’impunità?
→ read full articleRevive Aung San’s Original Secularist Multicultural Vision for the New Myanmar
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Aung San was murdered on 19 July 1947, 66 years go. He was killed by 27 bullet wounds from the British Army-issued machine guns in the British-assisted assassination. When he and his multi-cultural and multi-faith comrades were killed it was not just the men’s lives that were taken away. Aung San’s secularist, egalitarian and multiculturalist vision too was killed and buried along with their remains.
→ read full articleAre Palestinian Students in Lebanon Being Pressured to Choose Kalashnikovs over College?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The choice for many Palestinian young men in Lebanon has come down to guns or education. By force of Lebanese law and under threat of prison for violators, Palestinians are denied the elementary civil rights to work in more than 50 professions and are barred by a 2001 racist law from even owning a home.
→ read full articleOn Leaks and Pseudo-Reality: The US’ Futile Search for ‘World Domination’
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Global surveillance is merely an indication that President Barack Obama – as a representation of the US ruling class – was never sincere as he attempted to woo the world with an image of a more gentle and peaceful American government.
→ read full articleUN Struggles to Feed Millions of Syrians
Margaret Brennan, CBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
“People cannot borrow. People do not have credit cards; people do not have a purchasing facility,” said Muhannad Hadi, the Regional Emergency Coordinator for the World Food Program. “We have gotten to the stage where people receive food from the World Food Program inside Syria or they don’t eat. It is very simple. There is no other way.”
→ read full articleSpecial Report: Thai Authorities Implicated in Rohingya Muslim Smuggling Network
Jason Szep and Stuart Grudgings, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The beatings were accompanied by threats: If his family didn’t produce the money, Myanmar refugee Abdul Sabur would be sold into slavery on a fishing boat, his captors shouted, lashing him with bamboo sticks.
→ read full articleAdministration’s Syria Problem: U.S. Can’t Find Non-Al Qaida Rebels
World Tribune – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The United States has withheld at least $50 million worth of aid to Sunni rebels in Syria. The reason: neither Congress nor the administration of President Barack Obama can find rebel militias not linked to Al Qaida.
→ read full articleTrash the TPP: Why It’s Time to Revolt against the Worst “Trade Agreement” in History
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The media black-out is quite impressive since this is the largest corporate trade agreement to be negotiated since the World Trade Organization got underway in 1995. Commonly called a global corporate coup, the TPP makes transnational corporations more powerful than governments. Others call it “NAFTA on steroids” because it will multiply the failures of NAFTA.
→ read full articleCommunal Tensions in Burma Continue
John Roberts, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
“A recurring theme from locals is that ‘outsiders’ are bussed in by trucks and nearly all of them are armed with sticks, swords and machetes. An incident soon happens between a Muslim and a Buddhist that provides the spark and then the gangs swing into action, agitating and enlisting locals to join the ensuing riot. Muslim homes and shops are demolished and along with them previous inter-communal and religious harmony.”
→ read full articleIndiana’s Anti-Howard Zinn Witch-Hunt
Bill Bigelow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, one of the country’s most widely read history books, died on January 27, 2010. Shortly after, then-Governor of Indiana Mitch Daniels got on his computer and fired off an email to the state’s top education officials: “This terrible anti-American academic has finally passed away.”
→ read full article(Português) Veja Mapa da Corrupção pelo Mundo
BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Segundo a pesquisa feita pelo Transparency International em 95 países, uma em quatro pessoas já subornou algum orgão público no último ano.
→ read full articleLGBTI Africa: Cameroon’s “Gay Scare”
Eric O. Lembembe - Indypendent,
22 Jul 2013
Editor’s note: We are saddened to report that the author of this article, Eric O. Lembembe, was violently murdered and found dead in his home in Cameroon’s capital city of Yaoundé on Monday, July 15, 2013 just one day after The Indypendent went to press. This piece is one of the last ones that Eric wrote before his death.
→ read full article(Castellano) Unesco Reconoce Obra del Che Guevara y la Incluye en la “Memoria del Mundo”
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
El registro de la Memoria del Mundo comprende casi 300 documentos y colecciones de los cinco continentes, los trabajos de Guevara figuran entre las 54 nuevas adiciones de este año.
→ read full articleBradley Manning Wins Peace Prize
David Swanson, War Is a Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
19 Jul 2013 – U.S. whistleblower and international hero Bradley Manning has just been awarded the 2013 Sean MacBride Peace Award by the International Peace Bureau, itself a former recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, for which Manning is a nominee this year.
→ read full articleFrom the Women of Idinthakarai-Koodankulam, India
Sisters of Idinthakarai – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Please think of us and come visit us when you can. Remember the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant is gaining momentum and not dying. It is not and will never be a losing battle. Because it has raised the real questions on justice and human welfare.
→ read full article(Castellano) Evo Morales: Mi Secuestro Demuestra la Soberbia de los Países Europeos
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
El presidente de Bolivia consideró que ”hay cierta soberbia en los gobiernos de Europa” que se demostró con su secuestro, acción que no representa nada en comparación con las políticas de exterminio que los europeos realizaron en Latinoamérica en el pasado.
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The 4th Dimension
Carl Sagan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Carl Sagan (1934-1996) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. He spent most of his career as a professor of astronomy at Cornell University where he directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies.
→ read full article(Português) Por Que a Indústria Farmacêutica Evita Curar
Richard J. Roberts, Nobel da Medicina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
“As farmacêuticas bloqueiam medicamentos que curam, porque não são rentáveis”. O Prémio Nobel da Medicina Richard J. Roberts denuncia a forma como funcionam as grandes farmacêuticas dentro do sistema capitalista, preferindo os benefícios económicos à saúde, e detendo o progresso científico na cura de doenças, porque a cura não é tão rentável quanto a cronicidade.
→ read full articleLet the Light of Mandela Shine on U.S. Injustice
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
22 Jul 2013
Mandela was arrested in 1962, a year before Martin Luther King Jr. would give his “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C. After 27 years in prison, Mandela was released in 1990. Four years later, he would become the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
→ read full articleA World Citizen Passport and Edward Snowden’s Catch 22
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
To break out of Snowden’s “Catch 22” situation of no passport-to travel-no travel- no asylum – a world citizen passport was issued to Snowden on July 7, 2013 by Garry Davis, who founded the Registry of World Citizens in 1949, and today is the president of the World Government of World Citizens. The world passport is now reportedly in Snowden’s hands.
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Activist and Iraq War Veteran Vincent Emanuele Speaks Out
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Vince Emanuele is a former US Marine of two tours to Iraq who refused to go again by laying down his weapon. He is now organiser for the Michigan chapter of Veterans for Peace and serves on the national board of directors of Iraq Veterans Against War. He hosts the Veterans Unplugged program on Radio WMS, Michigan.
→ read full articleGlobal Big Brother and the Snowden Hollywood Chase
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
We will miss the most crucial point of Snowden’s ‘crimes’ if we do not devote our attention to these fundamental political challenges directed at human security, democratic ways of life, and a pluralist world order. To be distracted by the circus of the Snowden chase any longer is to play along with a shameless geopolitical caper!
→ read full articleNSA Blackmailing Obama? | Interview with Whistleblower Russ Tice
Abby Martin, Breaking the Set – Russia Today,
22 Jul 2013
Abby Martin talks to Russell Tice, former intelligence analyst and original NSA whistleblower, about how the recent NSA scandal only scratches the surface of a massive surveillance apparatus. He cites spying orders for specific targets that he saw including former Senators Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama.
→ read full articleThe Destruction of Barack Obama
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Some people have been surprised or disappointed by certain decisions of President Barack Obama. His war-making, his use of illegal drone strikes, his failure to close Guantanamo, his failure to genuinely help those ordinary Americans who voted him into office, and even his pursuit of whistleblowers like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden have all raised concerns among those with the audacity to hope that he would be different.
→ read full articleNSA Warned to Rein in Surveillance as Agency Reveals Even Greater Scope
Spencer Ackerman – The Guardian,
22 Jul 2013
NSA officials testify to angry House panel that agency can perform ‘three-hop queries’ through Americans’ data and records.
→ read full articleSurveillance Blowback: The Making of the U.S. Surveillance State, 1898-2020
Alfred W. McCoy - TomDispatch,
22 Jul 2013
In 1898, Washington occupied the Philippines and in the years that followed pacified its rebellious people, in part by fashioning the world’s first full-scale “surveillance state” in a colonial land. The illiberal lessons learned there then migrated homeward, providing the basis for constructing America’s earliest internal security and surveillance apparatus during World War I.
→ read full articleBlond Stewardess
TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
An airline captain was breaking in a new blonde stewardess. The route they were flying had a layover in another city.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 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 articleGlobal Power Project, Part 6: Banking on Influence with Bank of America
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
What is clear is that Bank of America, like all big banks in our era, isn’t merely a financial institution but simultaneously acts as an influential institution in the media, military industrial complex, think tanks, chemical companies and government circles. The bank is too big to fail. Too big to jail. And too connected to change.
→ read full articleBe the Change: Why Myanmar’s Subversive Band “Side Effect” Is Inspiring Freedom
Matt Carter, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
“Now there’s no censorship, but there’s no guarantee that we won’t go to jail, of course,” explained Side Effect’s lead singer Darko, during the band’s recent concert stopover in Berlin. “The laws are tricky, we’re not sure yet if they would protect us. It’s still dangerous to sing – not even the political but the controversial stuff – to criticize culture or conservatism.”
→ read full articleCall On President Putin and Russians to Grant Asylum to Edward Snowden
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Edward Snowden, by revealing the existence and extent of the surveillance by the US government and exposing their spying programme that violates national and international laws, has done a great service to humanity. We can all be grateful to this courageous man of conscience for his personal sacrifice in revealing the secret NSA spying programmes. 55 percent of US citizens support his action.
→ read full articleMonsanto Virtually Gives Up On Growing GMO Crops in Europe
John Upton, Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Monsanto has pretty much given up any hope (at least for now) of selling its genetically engineered seeds for corn, sugar beets, and other crops in Europe, where opposition to GMO food is overwhelming.
→ read full article(Castellano) Brasil Considera Insuficientes Explicaciones de EE.UU. sobre Espionaje
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
El canciller de Brasil, Antonio Patriota, afirmó este lunes [15 Julio 2013] que son insuficientes las explicaciones que el Gobierno de Estados Unidos ha dado sobre las denuncias de espionaje contra el exconsultor de inteligencia norteamericano, Edward Snowden. “Fueron hechas algunas aclaraciones, las consideramos insuficientes”, dijo el canciller brasileño a periodistas.
→ read full articleNothing to See Here: Athens Is Now Closed to Democracy
Yiannis Baboulias – New Statesman,
22 Jul 2013
There are two kinds of deficit that have taken hold in Greece: the economic one, and the democratic deficit created by government spin and five years of austerity and authoritarianism.
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John Lennon – Give Peace a Chance (Music Video of the Week)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Released in 1969, when the Vietnam War was ravaging. Wake up Anglo America, you changed for the worse!
→ read full articleSyrians Fleeing War at Rate Not Seen Since Rwandan Genocide: U.N.
Michelle Nichols, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The number of people fleeing the conflict in Syria has escalated to an average of 6,000 a day during 2013 – a rate not seen since the genocide in Rwanda nearly two decades ago, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday [16 Jul 2013].
→ read full articleG’Day Damascus: Australians Are Joining Syria’s Rebels in Surprising Numbers
Ian Lloyd Neubauer - Time,
22 Jul 2013
As many as 6,000 foreign mercenary fighters from nearly 50 nations have now joined the brutal 2½-year civil war in Syria. The vast majority are Islamists from Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Somalia, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey and former Soviet republics. And then there are at least 200 Australians, according to a public statement made by Davd Irvine, director general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.
→ read full articleChase, Once Considered “The Good Bank,” Is About to Pay another Massive Settlement
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
22 Jul 2013
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will fine Chase “close to $1 billion” for manipulating energy prices in Enron-esque fashion in Michigan and California.
→ read full articleDo Scientists Pray? Einstein Answers a Little Girl’s Question about Science vs. Religion
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
“Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.”
— Albert Einstein
Patience Running Out in Bulgaria
Nick Thorpe, BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Protesters in Bulgaria pack the streets of Sofia each evening, but after 35 days in a row, their patience with Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski’s government is wafer-thin.
→ read full articleWhat the Empire Didn’t Hear: US Spying and Resistance in Latin America
Benjamin Dangl – Toward Freedom,
22 Jul 2013
US imperialism spreads across Latin America through military bases and trade deals, corporate exploitation and debt, and a vast communications surveillance network into the region’s streets and halls of power. Yet more than McDonald’s and bullets, an empire depends on fear, and fear of the empire is lacking these days in Latin America.
→ read full articleBritish Aid for Myanmar/Burma Ethnic Cleansing
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Britain, the largest donor country and former colonizer of Myanmar, is effectively aiding and abetting the unfolding “ethnic cleansing” of Muslim Rohingya by helping to finance the country’s controversial 2014 national census.
→ read full articleGoldman Sachs Profits Double in Second Quarter
Dominic Rushe – The Guardian,
22 Jul 2013
Goldman Sachs doubled its profits in the second quarter as the bank benefited from gains in fixed income, currency and commodity trading revenue. The Wall Street giant set out its latest quarterly earnings Tuesday [16 Jul 2013] morning announcing net income of $1.93bn, compared with $962m a year earlier. Net revenue, including net interest income, rose 30% to $8.61bn from $6.6bn last year.
→ read full articleEU Publishes Guidelines Barring All Cooperation with Israeli Entities over Pre-67 Lines
AP and Staff - Times of Israel,
22 Jul 2013
The European Union on Friday [19 Jul 2013] formally published new guidelines explicitly banning any EU funding of and cooperation with Israeli institutions operating in territories beyond the pre-1967 lines, amid vigorous Israeli objections. The new directive, to take effect at the start of 2014, requires the EU and its members to cease any joint activity or funding with Israeli entities working over the Green Line in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and in the Golan Heights.
→ read full articleKoodankulam Nuclear Plant Commissioning: An Open Letter to Prime Minister of India and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
Maj Gen S.G.Vombatkere – Counter Currents,
22 Jul 2013
Today is a historic day for two wrong reasons. First: on 16 July 1945 the world’s first experimental nuclear explosion was conducted at Alamogordo, USA, as a precursor to the next two nuclear experiments over Japan. Second, for us in India, it immediately follows the Koodankulam nuclear power plant going critical in contempt of people’s well-founded fears for safety and health through calculated lack of transparency to the questions and issues raised by them.
→ read full article(Português) Stiglitz: É Hora de Questionar as Patentes
Joseph Stiglitz, Prêmio Nobel de Economia – Outras Palavras,
22 Jul 2013
Nobel de Economia afirma que proibir privatização de genes humanos foi só o primeiro passo. Para estimular ciência e inovação tecnológica, sociedades não precisam produzir desigualdades.
→ read full articleJudge Retains “Aiding the Enemy” Charge against Bradley Manning
Matthew MacEgan and Joseph Kishorej, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The US military judge presiding over the court martial of Private Bradley Manning decided Thursday [18 Jul 2013] against dropping the most draconian charge sought by the prosecution, that of “aiding the enemy.”
→ read full article(Português) América Latina Está Bastante Furiosa e a Europa, Um Pouquinho
Juan Gelman, Página 12 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Diante da espionagem dos EUA e do constrangimento causado a Evo Morales, nações latino-americanas elevaram o tom contra os norte-americanos e ofereceram asilo a Snowden. Mas depois se descobriu que também europeus haviam sido espionados. Eles tiveram de reclamar, ainda que num tom mais baixo.
→ read full articleMeet a Moderate Syrian Insurgent
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
22 Jul 2013
You see how hard is the life of a moderate rebel? Not only we have to fight the despicable dictator in Damascus – we fight Shi’ite apostates and we even fight terrorists! Oh, Amrika! The terrorists are among us as well, just as they are among you.
→ read full articleNever Worried about a Nuclear Disaster in India? Do It Now, Koodankulam Has Started
Prajnya K – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The Koodankulam nuclear plant went critical this weekend [14 Jul 2013] despite stinging criticism from both pro and anti-nuclear experts. Shouldn’t we be terrified that the plant has been dealing with Russian conmen suppliers, missing wiring and electrocution deaths? Shouldn’t we be scared that the nuclear establishment itself admits that they have no disaster management plans?
→ read full articleJapanese Nuclear Plant May Have Been Leaking for Two Years
Hiroko Tabuchi – The New York Times,
22 Jul 2013
The nuclear power plant at Fukushima has been leaking contaminated water into the ocean for two years, ever since an earthquake and tsunami damaged the plant, Japan’s chief nuclear regulator said on Wednesday [10 Jul 2013]. In unusually candid comments, Shunichi Tanaka also said that neither his staff nor the plant’s operator knew exactly where the leaks were coming from, or how to stop them.
→ read full articleFree Syrian Army Arming Al Qaeda, ISIL Commander Claims
Bill Roggio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Buried at the end of this Al Jazeera story on tensions between the Free Syrian Army and an al Qaeda affiliate, a leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed that the FSA is selling weapons to the terror group:
→ read full articleEuropean Commission President Meets Religious Leaders
Kumari Kunti Sherreitt, ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Eighteen senior religious leaders from all over Europe met on May 30, 2013 to discuss the EU’s yearly theme of “citizenship” hosted by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, President Van Rompuy and Vice Presiden Laszlo Surjan, and organized by the Bureau of European Policy Advisors.
→ read full articleFull Text of the European Union’s Israeli Settlement Guidelines
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The new European Union directive concerning EU funding for entities established beyond the 1967 border lines including the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.
→ read full articleCNDP Statement on Koodankulam Reaching Criticality
Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The Koodankulam reactor was made critical despite the massive and sustained peaceful popular protests against the plant, and despite numerous warnings by nuclear experts, including former AERB chairman A Gopalakrishnan, about the plant’s vulnerability to hazards and the use of substandard equipment supplied by Russian company Zio-Podolsk. This is profoundly anti-democratic and totally unacceptable.
→ read full article(Português) “Porquê o Socialismo?”
Albert Einstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
“Será aconselhável para quem não é especialista em assuntos económicos e sociais exprimir opiniões sobre a questão do socialismo? Eu penso que sim, por uma série de razões”, afirma Einstein. O artigo foi publicado na edição de lançamento da revista “Monthly Review”, em Maio de 1949.
→ read full articleGlobal Power Project, Part 5: Banking on Influence with Goldman Sachs
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
One of the largest banks in the United States, Goldman Sachs was central to the process of creating the housing bubble that popped in 2007-8, which led to the largest economic crisis since the Great Depression. As Matt Taibbi famously documented in Rolling Stone, Goldman has been involved in “every major market manipulation since the Great Depression,” profiting along the way as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”
→ read full articleAmerica’s Plan B in Egypt: Bring Back the Old Regime
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – Strategic Culture Foundation,
15 Jul 2013
Just as America’s regime change project in Syria is failing, its time in the Middle East is drawing to an end. Those who gambled on Washington’s success, like the Saudi royals, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Erdogan, will find themselves on the losing side of the Middle East’s regional equation…
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 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 articleFukushima Continues
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
15 Jul 2013
The first thing to know about the danger from the radioactive mass remaining in the three reactors that melted down at Fukushima is that nobody knows how much radioactive material there is, nobody knows how much uranium and plutonium it contains, and nobody knows how to make it safe – so no one knows how great the continuing danger is.
→ read full articleSecond FAC Clearance a Preemptive Attempt of Nuclear Authorities to Circumvent Legal Notice and Action
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
The people of India will hold the Government of Tamil Nadu and the Government of India squarely responsible for any untoward incidents that may happen at the KKNPP. They are all playing a dangerous game with the lives of millions of people without complying with several important legal and safety measures such as CRZ clearance for the desalination plants, effluent outlet pipes and so on.
→ read full articleIn ‘Chilling’ Ruling, Chevron Granted Access to Activists’ Private Internet Data
Lauren McCauley - Common Dreams,
15 Jul 2013
A federal [US] judge has ruled to allow Chevron, through Microsoft, to collect the IP records and identity email accounts from over 100 environmental activists, journalists and attorneys. The oil giant alleges having being victim of a conspiracy in the $18.2 billion judgment against it for dumping 18.5 billion gallons of oil waste in the Ecuadorean Amazon, causing untold damage to the rainforest.
→ read full articleArgentina’s President Kirchner: US Industrial Espionage Gave Me Chills down My Spine
Juan Cole, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
The relationship between the United States and Latin America may have just plunged to its lowest level since the 1910s and 1920s, the height of US imperialism in the area, when United Fruit and the Marines imposed themselves on the region.
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Rapper Yasiin Bey (Aka Mos Def) Force Fed under Standard Guantánamo Bay Procedure
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
In this four-minute film made by Human Rights organisation Reprieve and Bafta award-winning director Asif Kapadia, US actor and rapper Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def), experiences the procedure. Warning: Some Viewers May Find These Images Distressing – Guantánamo inmates are submitted to this horrible procedure TWICE DAILY.
→ read full articleWould Jesus Now Be Prosecuted by US?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
As a Law-Breaker — Like Manning, Assange and Snowden — Yes We Can! The pattern follows proceedings by the House Un-American Activities Committee — McCarthyism –, the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without evidence… It is noteworthy that presidents of countries originally named as “terrorists” were subsequently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: Nelson Mandela and Yasser Arafat. Barack Obama is unique in being labelled “terrorist” subsequent to being awarded that distinction.
→ read full articleThe Bomb in My Neighborhood
Franklin Lamb – Al Manar,
15 Jul 2013
This observer’s neighbors seemed to believe, especially over the past year, as most of us did, that the war in Syria would, in one form or another, spill into our neighborhood, Dahiyeh, the Hezbollah stronghold in south Beirut.
→ read full articlePRISM & ‘Purity’: NSA Follows Nazi Tradition
Max Keiser – Russia Today,
15 Jul 2013
The NSA in America is following in the Nazi tradition in its attempt to discriminate based on data collection, modeled around their belief system – which justifies trashing the Constitution in pursuit of ‘pure’ data. All dissenters will be arrested. All assemblies will be broken up. All attempts at nonconformity will be met with harsh prison sentences.
→ read full articleECHELON Today: The Evolution of an NSA Black Program
Tom Burghardt, Antifascist Calling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
While the public is angered by the illegal, unconstitutional nature of NSA programs which seize and store data for retrospective harvesting including the content of phone calls, emails, geolocational information, bank records, credit card purchases, travel itineraries, even medical records, in secret, the historical context of how, and why, this vast spying apparatus came to be is often given short shrift.
→ read full articleNSA Casts Massive Surveillance Net Over Latin America
Bill Van Auken, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
According to Rio de Janeiro-based daily O Globo, the most intensive surveillance has been conducted against US allies Brazil, Colombia and Mexico—and against Venezuela. Also subjected to the NSA surveillance net have been Argentina, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Paraguay, Chile, Peru and El Salvador, according to the O Globo report.
→ read full article(Português) Problemas no Paraíso
Slavoj Žižek, Boitempo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
Problemas no Inferno parecem compreensíveis – sabemos por que as pessoas estão protestando na Grécia ou na Espanha, mas por que é que há problemas no Paraíso, em países prósperos ou que, ao menos, passam por um período de rápido desenvolvimento, como a Turquia, a Suécia e o Brasil?
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Free Syrian Army Place Food Embargo on Aleppo
SyrianGirlpartisan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
Jul 9, 2013 – Interview with a resident. 2-3 million people in Aleppo are threatened with starvation and terror NOW. Famine feared as US/West-supported FSA and Al-Qaida block food from being transferred to government held parts of Aleppo.
→ read full articleNeoliberalism and Public Unrest: Time to Make the Connection
Mandeep Tiwana – Al Jazeera,
15 Jul 2013
While the power of transnational corporations expands, income and wealth disparities are threatening societies. Neo-liberalism, using a dictionary definition, as a “modern politico-economic theory favouring free trade, privatisation, minimal government intervention, reduced public expenditure on social services etc.,” reduces the responsibility of the state while promoting privatisation to favour those with access to resources and influence.
→ read full articleBe Strong Honey, I Love You
TMS editor,
15 Jul 2013
A man escapes from prison where he has been for 15 years. He breaks into a house to look for money and guns and finds a young couple in bed.
→ read full articleNo Justice for Muslims Massacred by Myanmar Buddhists
Todd Pitman, AP – The Japan Times,
15 Jul 2013
9 Jul 2013 – Their bones are scattered in blackened patches of earth across a hillside overlooking the wrecked Islamic boarding school they once called home. Smashed fragments of skulls rest atop the dirt. And among the remains lie the sharpened bamboo staves attackers used to beat dozens of people to the ground before drowning their still-twitching bodies in gasoline and burning them alive.
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Guantanamo Inmate Accuses Military of Rape
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
A detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison is accusing the US military of sexual assault under the guise of maintaining security. In a letter to his lawyers, the inmate claims the practice is widespread.
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