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Corporate Profits Soar. The Super Wealthy Reinvent American Capitalism
Shamus Cooke - Global Research,
18 Nov 2013
As U.S. corporate profits soar to record highs, food stamps for the neediest were quietly cut. The politicians who are demanding endless cuts to social programs insist that the U.S. is broke, all the while conveniently ignoring the mountains of tax-free wealth piling up in the pockets of the super rich.
→ read full articleTrans-Atlantic Free Trade: US Pushes for Deal despite NSA Scandal
Gregor Peter Schmitz – Der Spiegel,
18 Nov 2013
The NSA spying scandal has many in Europe calling for the suspension of negotiations on an EU-US free-trade deal. Officials in Washington are undeterred, and continue to push forward with talks despite growing skepticism this side of the Atlantic.
→ read full articleThe Portuguese and the Crisis: An Analysis
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
18 Nov 2013
The key word for the survival of Portugal over all these years is “solidariedade”. In English, it is “solidarity”. This informal manifestation of socialism is endemic in Portuguese society, and persists whatever the social or economic climate. It is self-regulatory, it does not need a top-down approach.
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The Alarming Truths about GMOs
Dr. Mercola – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
The hidden truths about Genetically Modified Organisms and potential harm to health, the environment and ecosystems.
→ read full articleThe Euro Zone Profiteers
CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
A new CorpWatch report shines a light on the role of six major banks in Greece, Ireland and Spain in the EuroZone crisis.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Publishes Secret Draft Chapter of Trans-Pacific Partnership
Alex Hern and Dominic Rushe – The Guardian,
18 Nov 2013
Treaty negotiated in secret between 12 nations ‘would trample over individual rights and free expression’, says Julian Assange. 13 Nov 2013 – WikiLeaks has released the draft text of a chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, a multilateral free-trade treaty currently being negotiated in secret by 12 Pacific Rim nations.
→ read full articleAbuse Accusations Overshadow Commonwealth Meeting in Sri Lanka
Malavika Vyawahare - The New York Times,
18 Nov 2013
Sri Lanka’s president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, tried to pre-empt criticism of his government’s human rights record on Friday [15 Nov 2013] as he welcomed leaders of Commonwealth countries to a summit meeting in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, that was overshadowed by persistent allegations of state-sponsored abuse during a long civil war by the Sinhalese-dominated government against ethnic Tamils.
→ read full articleGCHQ Snoops on Hotel Reservations Targeting Diplomats – Snowden Leaks
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
17 Nov 2013 – A UK spy agency infiltrated international hotel booking systems for some three years, tracing high profile officials and wiretapping their suites, new leaks reveal. GCHQ’s top secret ‘Royal Concierge’ program tracked 350 hotels across the globe.
→ read full articleSecret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
Today, 13 November 2013, WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP is the largest-ever economic treaty, encompassing nations representing more than 40 per cent of the world’s GDP.
→ read full articleThe Logic behind Mass Spying: Empire and Cyber Imperialism
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
Allied regimes have uniformly condemned NSA espionage as a violation of trust and sovereignty, a threat to their national and economic security and to their citizens’ privacy. The ever-expanding technology of spying strengthens the police state. The list of targets is endless and bizarre. Nothing and no one will be missed!
→ read full articleWhy Ain al Hilweh?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
Because it Exists – A modest tempest is brewing in Lebanon among some supporters of Palestine and the US State Department over the decision by the Sabra-Shatila Scholarship Program , which intends to grant an additional 150-200 tuition scholarships to Palestinian students for spring semester enrolled in Lebanon’s dozen colleges and universities.
→ read full articleThe Assassination
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
From the first moment, I did not have the slightest doubt that Yasser Arafat was assassinated. It was a matter of simple logic. He was the man who was ready to make peace and who was able to get the Palestinian people to accept it. He also laid down the terms: a Palestinian state with borders based on the Green Line, with its capital in East Jerusalem. This is exactly what his assassins aimed to prevent.
→ read full articleNonkilling or 9mm Tacos for Breakfast
Joam Evans Pim – Huffington Post,
18 Nov 2013
Mexico’s government has teamed up with the World Health Organization’s Violence Prevention Alliance to look at stopping violence, particularly lethal violence, before it happens using the WHO’s definition of violence as “a preventable disease.”
→ read full articleNeither an Army nor Free
Ali Örnek, International Network for Justice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
The “Free Syrian Army”, acting as an umbrella organization for the rebels, is composed of dozens of factions, each of which is distinct from the other and is independent of a central leadership. Being infamous for their war crimes, these groups act upon the interests of the countries that fund them.
→ read full articleFront Groups Exposed: 50 Industry Groups Form a New Alliance to Manipulate Public Opinion about Junk Food, GMOs and Harmful Additives
Dr. Mercola – Nation of Change,
18 Nov 2013
The groups comprising this new alliance represent multi-national food companies, biotech industry and chemical companies that generate hundreds of billions of dollars worth of revenue from food related sales every year.
→ read full articleVandana Shiva on Resisting GMOs: “Saving Seeds Is a Political Act”
Sarah van Gelder – YES! Magazine,
18 Nov 2013
Why the fight for biodiversity is about protecting life itself. Trained in physics and philosophy, [TRANSCEND member] Vandana Shiva is renowned for her activism against GMOs, globalization, and patents on seeds and traditional foods.
→ read full articleJeremy Hammond’s Court Statement upon Receiving a 10-Year Prison Sentence: Criminal Exploits by FBI Handlers
The Sparrow Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
It has taken a lot for me to write this, to explain my actions, knowing that doing so — honestly — could cost me more years of my life in prison. I am aware that I could get as many as 10 years, but I hope that I do not, as I believe there is so much work to be done.
→ read full articleAffinity, Diaspora, Identity, Reunification, Return
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
The question explored here is whether there are other ways of imagining fruitful association with countries, lands and “places”, however distant or virtual — or possibly divided in some way. Of particular interest is the possibility that this might be recognized through refining the pattern of formalities by which such associations are currently defined and restricted.
→ read full articleWhy France Is Playing ‘Stupid’ on Iran
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
18 Nov 2013
Torrents of bytes have already detailed how Israel routinely hijacks US foreign policy. Here’s yet one more graphic demonstration of how Wag the Dog works… Hollande is a joke. This week he’s on the cover of the Courrier International (headline: “The Art of the Fall”), with pan-European media judging him “incoherent”, “paralyzed” and “incompetent” (and these are the merciful epithets).
→ read full articleA Showdown for War or Peace
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
11 Nov 2013
In pressing for negotiated settlements to the Iranian nuclear dispute and the Syrian civil war, President Barack Obama is challenging the imposing lobbying, propaganda and financial clout of the new Saudi-Israeli alliance, with the future direction of U.S. foreign policy – and geopolitical stability – at stake.
→ read full articleUS Is a State Sponsor of Terrorism
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
11 Nov 2013
Drone attacks are raw terror tactics that terrorize civilian populations.
→ read full articleIndonesia – Torn Apart but Glorified by Washington
Andre Vltchek and Crista Priscilla – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
After the 1965 military coup, planned and sponsored by the West, between 2 and 3 million Indonesian citizens vanished, were murdered in a several months long orgy of terror. The military and the NUs (the largest Muslim organization in the country) youth wing, Ansor, participated zealously in the killings, along with hundreds of thousands of ordinary Indonesian citizens.
→ read full articleHuman Rights Advocate: Censor Them!
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
On November 4th, Iranian lawyer and the 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate [Shirin Ebadi] announced that the United States and Europe should ban Iran from using broadcast satellites. Censor them, is what this ‘human rights’ advocate is suggesting. Shocking as this is, given Ebadi’s track record, the call for censorship comes as no surprise. She is, after all, a former judge.
→ read full articleRussia Implores UN to Take Control of Libya’s ‘Unguarded’ Yellowcake Uranium
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Russia has asked the UN Security Council to look into the dangers posed by a badly-guarded stockpile of yellowcake uranium in the Libyan Desert. Recent reports have said that Al-Qaeda is interested in the supply as a potential nuclear weapon component.
→ read full articleIf…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun and Napoleon met in hell.
→ read full articleMission Accomplished: Peace Is Drone-Bombed
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
It would appear the Empire has succeeded in both preventing peaceful negotiations and continuing the drone bombing that stirs up hatreds and foments that which our mainstream press label as “terrorism,” without including the drone attacks.
→ read full articleExclusive: Iceland’s ALDA Movement Seeks a Roadmap toward Systemic Change
Steve Rushton, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Kristinn Már Ársælsson, a founder of Iceland’s Association of Sustainability and Democracy, advocates measures that enable participatory decision making, democratize the workplace, protect the environment and restructure the financial system.
→ read full articleUS Drone Strike In Pakistan Blows Up Afghanistan Peace Talks
DSWright, FDL – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
So as America looks to withdraw and peace talks take place between the Afghanistan Taliban and Karzai government – the US government orders a drone strike on a major figure in the Pakistani Taliban enraging both the Afghanistan Taliban and Pakistani government. Why would the US do this if not to derail the peace talks?
→ read full articleThe Roots of the European Court of Human Rights and Democracy
Ersan Sen and Mahmut Can Senyurt – Open Democracy,
11 Nov 2013
Marco Duranti claims that the aims of the founders of the European Court of Human Rights were not democratic ones, and that the ECHR was in fact designed to secure the concept of “property rights” instead of social rights such as “the right to labour and social security” or “the right to health” as set forth under European Convention on Human Rights.
→ read full articleInterrogation-Torture and Dual Loyalty – Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror
Institute on Medicine as a Profession – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Medical, Military, and Ethics Experts Say Health Professionals Designed and Participated in Cruel, Inhumane, and Degrading Treatment and Torture of Detainees; Seek Policies To Assure Conformance With Ethical Principles
→ read full articleThe Great Austerity Shell Game: Here’s How the Capitalist Scam Works
Prof. Richard Wolff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
When capitalist economies crash, most capitalists request – and governments provide – credit market bailouts and economic stimuli. However, corporations and the rich oppose new taxes ‘on them’ to pay for stimulus and bailout programs. They insist, instead, that governments should ‘borrow’ the necessary funds. Since 2007, capitalist governments everywhere borrowed massively for those costly programs.
→ read full articleMike Michaud: Yes, I am gay. ‘But why should it matter?’
Bangor Daily News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
That may seem like a big announcement to some people. One thing I do know is that it has nothing to do with my ability to lead the state of Maine.
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Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
I never guessed that my friend Howard
would turn out to be a coward.
Statement from Edward Snowden
ACLU-American Civil Liberties Union – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
The German magazine Der Spiegel published a statement Sunday [3 Nov 2013] from Edward Snowden that it translated from English to German. Snowden has provided the ACLU with the original English text.
→ read full article(Italiano) NSA e caduta dell’Impero USA
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Eppure, essendoci una cerchia interna di élite auto-nominate, c’è anche una cerchia interna di alleati di cui ci si può presumibilmente fidare, i “Cinque Occhi”: Regno Unito, USA, Canada, Australia, Nuova Zelanda; Anglo-America per esteso. Un circolo di paesi selezionati su base razzista-culturalista. Bianchi e anglo, uccisori di popoli indigeni ovunque: gli USA degli indiani nativi, il Canada un po’ meno degli appartenenti ai Popoli Nativi, l’Australia degli aborigeni, la Nuova Zelanda un po’ meno dei Maori, Il Regno Unito dappertutto – facendo sì che gli altri si lanciassero su quel pendio scivoloso del genocidio e del sociocidio.
→ read full article(Castellano) La Magnitud del Desastre: Los Datos del Neoliberalismo
Pedro Salmerón Sanginés – La Jornada,
11 Nov 2013
Martí Batres exhibe el fracaso neoliberal con datos duros: en ninguna esfera de la economía los tecnócratas neoliberales han ofrecido buenos resultados, salvo en el indescriptible, inaudito crecimiento de las fortunas de las familias más ricas y de los altos funcionarios que para ellas gobiernan.
→ read full articleThe 10 Best and Worst Foods to Eat for Sleep
FITNESS Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Ah, sleep. It’s something we relentlessly crave, but we never seem to get enough of it. Aside from the daily stressors in life, there’s one big thing that can keep you from snoozing — your diet. Here, the best and worst foods to eat for sleep.
→ read full articleThis Transatlantic Trade Deal Is a Full-Frontal Assault on Democracy
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
A global ban on left-wing politics: That’s what the new rules being smuggled into trade agreements are delivering. Brussels has kept quiet about a treaty that would let rapacious companies subvert our laws, rights and national sovereignty.
→ read full article(Castellano) Congreso Internacional sobre Pueblos Indígenas de América Latina sin indígenas
Ollantay Itzamná, Centre Tricontinental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Ni los zapotecos estuvieron presentes en el Instituto Cultural Oaxaca. ¿Por qué? ¿No existen investigadores/académicos indígenas en Latinoamérica? ¿Racismo académico? ¿Vergüenza de investigadores indígenas de autoafirmarse como tales?
→ read full articleIsrael Issues 1,859 Settler Home Tenders ahead of Kerry Visit
Channel NewsAsia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Israel issued tenders to build 1,859 settler homes on Sunday [3 Nov 2013], angering Palestinians ahead of a visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry aimed at pushing the peace process forward.
→ read full articleUN Climate Change Summit Kicks Off in Poland
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
World leaders launch new round of talks in Warsaw to pave way for 2015 deal to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. The 12-day United Nations Climate Change Conference began on Monday [11 Nov 2013] in Poland’s capital amid a slew of warnings about a potentially disastrous rise in greenhouse-gas emissions.
→ read full article(Português) Experimentação Animal: Necessidade ou Especismo?
Hugo Chusyd e Katia Sendra Tavares - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
11 Nov 2013
É possível construir uma sociedade e uma medicina que não explora e abusa de outros animais. A história tem nos mostrado incansáveis vezes que sempre encontramos um meio de resolver aquilo que em certo momento parecia impossível.
→ read full article10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy — This Chart Shows How
Chris Miles – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
According to this chart called “The Illusion of Choice,” these corporations create a chain that begins at one of 10 super companies. You’ve heard of the biggest names, but it’s amazing to see what these giants own or influence.
→ read full articleCongress Is Making a Critical Decision
Peter G Cohen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
The Pentagon is lobbying the Congress to provide funds for the “Modernization” of the B-61 gravity bombs now stored in Europe. At the same time, many experts and some European nations would like to see the bombs withdrawn from Europe.
→ read full articleInside the Outrageous World of Child Cage Fighting: Tiny Boys Who Are Trained to Attack Each Other in America’s Baby MMA Arenas
James Nye – Daily Mail,
11 Nov 2013
It is estimated that three million boys and girls, some as young as five-year-old launch themselves at each other weekly across the nation engaged in Pankration – some wearing no head protection and throwing punches boasting gloves little more than one-inch thick. Prominent critics of MMA call it ‘human cockfighting.’
→ read full articleThe Bank Guarantee That Bankrupted Ireland
Ellen Brown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
The Irish have a long history of being tyrannized, exploited, and oppressed. Today, Ireland is under a different sort of tyranny, one imposed by the banks and the troika—the EU, ECB and IMF. The oppressors have demanded austerity and more austerity, forcing the public to pick up the tab for bills incurred by profligate private bankers.
→ read full articleNSA Spying Revelations Exacerbate Australian-Indonesian Tensions
Peter Symonds, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
The Indonesian government is threatening to wind back intelligence sharing with Australia and the US after revelations last week, based on leaked documents provided by Edward Snowden, that their embassies in Jakarta were used as electronic listening posts for the US National Security Agency.
→ read full articleIsraelis Plan New Colonies, Oil Drilling, on Palestinian Land During “Peace Talks”
Juan Cole – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
The current round of so-called peace talks between Israel and Palestine is marked by so much bad faith on the part of the Israelis that only the corruption and perfidy of the Mahmoud Abbas government in the West Bank can explain why the Palestinians should subject themselves to such exploitation and humiliation.
→ read full articleEt Tu, UK? Anger Grows over British Spying in Berlin
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
First it was the US — and now it turns out the UK might have been spying from its embassy in Berlin, too. Officials at Germany’s Foreign Ministry responded Tuesday by inviting Britain’s ambassador for a lecture.
→ read full articleShelter in Europe: Court Orders Asylum for Persecuted Gays
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
An EU court ruled Thursday [7 Nov 2013] that gays and lesbians persecuted in other countries have the right to asylum in Europe, as long as they fulfill certain conditions. The decision came in a case involving three African men seeking safe haven in the Netherlands.
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Rhapsody in Blue (Music Video of the Week)
The 5 Browns – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
5 Pianos – The 5 Browns play Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin.
→ read full articleI Believe There Will Not Be a United Ireland
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Our peace process will be only as strong and safe as long as we all, particularly our political leaders, refuse to play politics with our volatile emotions, and use rhetoric that can move others to kill, and as long as we together continue to build a nonviolent truly democratic Northern Irish society for every one of us and our children.
→ read full articleCoalition Endorses Recommendations of New Report on Health Professional Involvement in Torture, Calls for APA Action
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
The Coalition for an Ethical Psychology applauds the release yesterday [4 Nov 2013] of an important new report titled “Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror,” funded by the Institute on Medicine as a Profession (IMAP) and the Open Society Foundations.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Nuclear Ambiguity Prodded
Pierre Klochendler, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
As Palestinian-Israeli peace talks and nuclear talks on Iran’s disputed nuclear programme continue, a unique international conference, “A Middle East without Weapons of Mass Destruction”, was held in Jerusalem. “The nuclear issue is Israel’s last taboo.”
→ read full articleU.S., Israel Lose Voting Rights at UNESCO over Palestine Row
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
UNESCO has suspended the voting rights of the United States and Israel, two years after both countries stopped paying dues to the U.N.’s cultural arm in protest over its granting full membership to the Palestinians.
→ read full articleNo Morsel Too Minuscule for All-Consuming N.S.A.
Scott Shane – The New York Times,
11 Nov 2013
From thousands of classified documents, the National Security Agency emerges as an electronic omnivore of staggering capabilities, eavesdropping and hacking its way around the world to strip governments and other targets of their secrets, all the while enforcing the utmost secrecy about its own operations. It spies routinely on friends as well as foes, as has become obvious in recent weeks.
→ read full articleLGBT Americans Need Congressional Protection
US Pres. Barack Obama - Reader Supported News,
11 Nov 2013
Millions of LGBT Americans go to work every day fearing that, without any warning, they could lose their jobs — not because of anything they’ve done, but simply because of who they are. It’s offensive. It’s wrong. And it needs to stop, because in the United States of America, who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense.
→ read full articleThe Saudis Are Mad? Tough!
Fareed Zakaria – Time Magazine,
11 Nov 2013
Over the past four decades, the kingdom’s immense oil wealth has been used to underwrite the export of an extreme, intolerant and violent version of Islam preached by its Wahhabi clerics. Go anywhere in the world–from Germany to Indonesia–and you’ll find Islamic centers flush with Saudi money, spouting intolerance and hate. Saudi Arabia was one of only three countries in the world to recognize and support the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan until the 9/11 attacks.
→ read full articleThe Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA): When Foreign Investors Sue the State
Martin Khor, Third World Economics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
The investor-state dispute system, whereby foreign investors can sue the host-country government in an international tribunal, is one of the issues being negotiated in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.
→ read full articleArt and the Building of Peace
George Kent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Meanings are not inherent in things, but are socially negotiated. Like the meaning of a work of art, the meaning of a conflict is not inherent in it. Its meaning depends on what the observers bring to it… The joint exercise of imagination by parties to conflict is the exercise of the art of peacefulness.
→ read full articleHedge Fund Giant Led by Jewish Billionaire to Pay Biggest Penalty in History
Larry Neumeister and Marcy Gordon – The Times of Israel,
11 Nov 2013
Pending deal would see company headed by Steven A. Cohen pay out $1.8 billion for insider trading, cease operating as investment adviser.
→ read full articleRuthless Regimes Not Impervious to Civil Resistance: A Reply to Maged Mandour
Stephen Zunes and Jack DuVall – Open Democracy,
11 Nov 2013
Maged Mandour’s article on openDemocracy, “Beyond Civil Resistance: The Case of Syria”, argues that civil resistance has been marginalized in the Syrian insurrection because it doesn’t work against “ruthless” regimes. But history doesn’t support that conclusion.
→ read full articleMy Promise to Children
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Every day, human adults kill 35,000 of our children. We kill them in wars. We kill them with drones. We kill them in our homes. We also kill children in vast numbers by starving them to death in Africa, Asia and Central/South America because we use military violence to maintain an ‘economic’ system that allocates resources for military weapons, as well as corporate profits for the wealthy, instead of resources for living.
→ read full articleNuclear Arsenal: US to Turn Old Bombs into All-Purpose Weapons
Markus Becker and Otfried Nassauer – Der Spiegel,
11 Nov 2013
The US wants to modernize nuclear bombs stationed in Europe in a way many experts call the equivalent of creating a new weapon. Critics believe the move violates pledges by President Obama he would not develop new nukes.
→ read full articleMuharram: The Islamic New Year
M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Remember when I Karbala’s battle
Heart breaks up in pieces, crumble
Eyes fill with tears, blood scramble
(Français) Politique de Drogues : L’Émancipation Latino-Américaine
François Polet, Centre Tricontinental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
« La seule chose que nous proposons est d’aborder le sujet, car jusqu’à présent beaucoup de pays, notamment les États-Unis, ont refusé de le faire. Cela fait 40 ans que le monde est plongé dans cette guerre aux drogues et je pense que nous devrions analyser si nous faisons la bonne chose »
→ read full articleWhy the Rest of the World No Longer Wants to Be Like US
Noam Chomsky - AlterNet,
11 Nov 2013
Many countries in the world see the U.S. as the single greatest external threat to their societies. In the past, the U.S. has sometimes been described sardonically – but not inaccurately – as a one-party state: the business party, with two factions called Democrats and Republicans.
→ read full articleSyria: From Fermenting Uprising to Delivering Polio
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda,
11 Nov 2013
Sometimes it truly seems as if the demented Armageddonists and George W. Bush’s “Crusaders” have shaped a “New World Order” which has regressed to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Conquest, War, Famine and Death.
→ read full articleThe Debtor’s War: A Modern Greek Tragedy
Andrew Gavin Marshall – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Large corporations have more money than most countries on earth. Their power is protected by the state, their influence unquestioned, their domination of the world’s resources, materials, culture and society is rapidly advancing, and they are – institutionally and ideologically – totalitarian.
→ read full articleChase Isn’t the Only Bank in Trouble
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
11 Nov 2013
There are multiple scandals blowing up right now, including a whole set of ominous legal cases that could result in punishments so extreme that they might significantly alter the long-term future of the financial services sector.
→ read full articleThe Middle East–Heading Where?
Johan Galtung, 11 Nov 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Are we witnessing a process of the USA detaching itself from an Israel bent on unlimited expansion, bribing Senators, Representatives with campaign money+? USA detaching itself from the G7 Gulf monarchies with Saudi Arabia now protesting everywhere? If so, we are living world history right now.
→ read full articleDon’t Be Distracted by One-State/Two-State ‘Debate’ on Israel – Something Much More Nefarious Is Going On
Noam Chomsky - AlterNet,
11 Nov 2013
Israel is systematically expanding with US support. The near inevitable outcome, ‘one state for two nations,’ will pose ‘an immediate existential threat of the erasure of the identity of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state,’ soon with a Palestinian-Arab majority.
→ read full articlePopular American (USA) Culture: A Dysfunctional and Destructive Life Context
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
We are — amidst pauses and respites for comfort from pizza, beer, shopping, TV football games, and “unreality” shows — caught in a bewildering and conflicted response to the world about us. We are aware something is wrong — unfamiliar, strange, frightening – but we cannot seem to grasp its sources.
→ read full articleThe Origins and Evolution of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
T Rajamoorthy - Global Research,
11 Nov 2013
THE free trade agreement being negotiated by the regional bloc known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has provoked widespread opposition in the countries involved in its negotiation. Today the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is rightly perceived and condemned as a US-led attempt to penetrate and dominate the economies of the region.
→ read full articleIreland: Israeli Products Marked with Yellow Sticker
Itamar Eichner - Ynetnews,
11 Nov 2013
Sources in the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem said that the phenomenon is severe and it is not by chance that the BDS organization chose to express its protest with a yellow sticker – which is reminiscent of dark days of racism and incitement.
→ read full articleCosta Gavras’s “Capital”: A Critique of “Cowboy Capitalism”
David Walsh, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
That unprincipled, greedy men and women are largely to blame for a good deal of the world’s problems and that they ought to and can be exposed by crusading individuals is a conception that seems to guide, semi-consciously or otherwise, a number of the current films on the subject of Wall Street and related issues.
→ read full articleJohnson & Johnson to Pay $2.2 Billion to Settle Deceptive Marketing Claims
Chris Morran – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
For nearly a decade, various state and federal agencies have been looking into Johnson & Johnson’s marketing of the drugs Risperdal, Invega, Natrecor, and others, claiming the company was putting consumers at risk by paying kickbacks to doctors and pharmacists to suggest these drugs to patients and for pushing unapproved uses for these medications. Today, the Justice Dept. announced that J&J will pay out more than $2.2 billion to settle these claims.
→ read full article(Français) La Force Africaine D’Intervention Rapide Opérationnelle Avant la Fin 2013 ?
RFI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Une Force africaine d’intervention rapide pour régler les conflits sur le continent pourrait voir le jour d’ici la fin de l’année 2013. Une déclaration faite par le président sud-africain Jacob Zuma lors d’une réunion de chefs d’Etat à Pretoria, le 5 novembre [2013].
→ read full articleEmpire under Obama, Part 3: America’s “Secret Wars” in Over 100 Countries around the World
Andrew Gavin Marshall – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
Obama’s global terror campaign is not only dependent upon his drone assassination program, but increasingly it has come to rely upon the deployment of Special Operations forces in countries all over the world, reportedly between 70 and 120 countries at any one time.
→ read full articleEmpire under Obama, Part 4: Counterinsurgency, Death Squads, and the Population as the Target
Andrew Gavin Marshall – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
Empire is institutional, not individual. My focus on the imperial structure during the Obama administration is not to suggest that it does not predate Obama, but rather, that Obama represents ‘continuity’ in imperialism, not “change.” This part examines the concept of ‘counterinsurgency’ as a war against the populations of Iraq, Afghanistan and spreading into Pakistan.
→ read full articleNSA Infiltrates Links to Yahoo, Google Data Centers Worldwide, Snowden Documents Say
Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani – The Washington Post,
4 Nov 2013
30 Oct 2013 – The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials.
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Peter Symonds, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
The latest NSA leaks have exposed US and Australian listening posts in diplomatic missions throughout Asia.
→ read full articleSix Ways to Keep the Government Out of Your Files
Josh Harkinson – Mother Jones,
4 Nov 2013
Pro-Tips on How to Lock Down Your Data
→ read full articleIran to Follow? White House Expected to Ease Sanctions Targeting Syria
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
Pressure on Obama from Putin is part of the ‘price tag’ for Russia’s role in bailing out the American president, whose chemical weapons ‘redline’ became something of an albatross. But another reason for the relaxation is that the White House believes it needs to communicate to Damascus that prospects for better relations, and possibly even some cooperation, are not completely dead.
→ read full articleMillions against Monsanto: Five Lessons from the Battle against GMOs
Ronnie Cummins – Common Dreams,
4 Nov 2013
The rapidly growing anti-GMO Movement illustrates the powerful synergy that can develop from the combined use of social media, marketplace pressure and political action. Out-of-control corporations, media, politicians and the proverbial “one percent” can be outsmarted and outmaneuvered. And quite possibly defeated.
→ read full articlePerpetual War: How Does the Global War on Terror Ever End?
Jeremy Scahill - TomDispatch,
4 Nov 2013
The drone strike in Yemen the day Obama was sworn in served as a potent symbol of a reality that had been clearly established during his first four years in office: U.S. unilateralism and exceptionalism were not only bipartisan principles in Washington, but a permanent American institution.
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Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Sevice,
4 Nov 2013
The NSA whistleblower’s letter to chancellor Angela Merkel, the German Parliament and to federal prosecutors, according to Hans-Christian Ströebele, a German opposition lawmaker from the Green Party who visited him in Moscow.
→ read full articleNSA and the Fall of the US Empire
Johan Galtung, 4 Nov 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
Yet, as there is an inner circle of self-appointed elites there is also an inner circle of allies that presumably can be trusted, the “Five Eyes”: UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand; Anglo-America writ large. Who are they? A club of countries selected on a racist-culturalist basis. White and Anglo, killers of indigenous peoples all over: USA of Native Indians, Canada a little less of First Nations, Australia of Aborigines, New Zealand a little less of Māoris, UK all over–getting the others launched on that slippery slope of genocide and sociocide.
→ read full article(Português) A Grécia É um Laboratório para Aplicar as Terapias de Choque, Diz Kouvelakis
Cristina Portella – Carta Maior,
4 Nov 2013
Nenhum país europeu, como a Grécia, teve uma contração de 27% desde o início da atual crise, nem reduziu em 40% os custos do trabalho, a cifra assustadora que demonstra o ponto a que chegaram as terapias de choque neoliberais.
→ read full article(Italiano) Le calamità USA: ci sono soluzioni
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
E se gli USA facessero un accordo con i cinesi e i russi? Il 50% di remissione del debito da parte cinese contro il 50% di riduzione USA dei componenti militari più offensivi – le 800 basi disseminate nel mondo – in 5-10 anni? Accompagnate da una riduzione analoga multilaterale e bilanciata nelle armi offensive per tutti e tre, approfittando dello slancio russo sulle armi chimiche?
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi: ‘The Army Must Be the Foundation of the Country’
DVB – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday [25 Oct 2013] praised the British military, insisting that she wanted to learn “how a good, professional army operates” in order to take lessons back to Burma.
→ read full articlePlaying the Great Game with Intelligence: Authority versus the People
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
Exposure to the disclosures and the fast footwork displayed by government in variously denying, lying, misleading, acknowledging — now ultimately reframed by “everyone does it” — has considerably sharpened public awareness of the nature of the game played by Authority with the People.
→ read full articleThe Rising Resistance to Obama’s Drone Wars
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
4 Nov 2013
Attacking rescuers is a war crime. Mustafa Qadri from Amnesty International explained: “For example, some laborers in a very impoverished village near the Afghanistan border, they get targeted, eight die instantly in a tent; those who come to rescue or to look for survivors are themselves targeted.
→ read full articlePhilosophy of Violence in Operation
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
A careful study of recorded history reveals that humans in general have often tended to resolve their differences through violent wars. They have never learned that in a war everyone is a loser and no one a winner.
→ read full articleNSA Asked Japan to Tap Regionwide Fiber-Optic Cables In 2011
The Japan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
The agency’s overture was apparently aimed at gathering information on China given that Japan is at the heart of optical cables that connect various parts of the region. But Tokyo turned down the proposal, citing legal restrictions and a shortage of personnel, the sources said.
→ read full articleInvisible Horizons of a Just Palestine/Israel Future
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
4 Nov 2013 – I spent last week at the United Nations, meeting with ambassadors of countries in the Middle East and presenting my final report to the Third Committee of the General Assembly as my term as Special Rapporteur for Occupied Palestine comes to an end.
→ read full articleU.S. Government Pledges Aid to Pakistan’s Elite, Blocks Visa for Human Rights Lawyer
Mehreen Saeed – The Huffington Post,
4 Nov 2013
A majority of Pakistanis have grown increasingly angry and blame the corrupt elite for accepting U.S. aid in return for signing off on the illegal drones in their country while publicly condemning them.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi’s Comments on Muslims Expose Endemic Anti-Muslim Prejudice
Tun Khin, Huff Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
As a Muslim Rohingya and an advocate for human rights who spent many years campaigning for her freedom, it is hard to express the shock I felt at her words during this interview.
→ read full articleTexas Club Auctions Right to Hunt Endangered Rhino: Killing It to Save It
Michael Graczyk, AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
Plans to auction a rare permit that will allow a hunter to take down an endangered black rhino are drawing criticism from some conservationists, but the organizer says the fundraiser could bring in more than $1 million that would go toward protecting the species.
→ read full articleStasi or NSA?
Goran Fejic – Open Democracy,
4 Nov 2013
[Tragicomedy is becoming a big joke] – Which spy agency would you choose to monitor your life?
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