Articles by The Guardian
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My Grandfather Nelson Mandela Fought Apartheid. I See the Parallels with Israel
Nkosi Zwelivelile – The Guardian,
15 Oct 2018
It took an international effort to end institutionalised racism in my country – now it must happen again, for Palestinian people.
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‘They’re Drug Dealers in Armani Suits’: Executives Draw Focus amid US Epidemic
Chris McGreal – The Guardian,
8 Oct 2018
30 Sep 2018 – As the pharmaceutical industry fights off a flood of lawsuits, there’s an increased call to investigate the roles of executives pushing opioid painkillers. “The more drugs they sold, the more money they made, and the more people in Massachusetts suffered and died.” — Maura Healey
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While Nestlé Extracts Millions of Litres from Their Land, Indigenous Residents Have No Drinking Water
Alexandra Shimo – The Guardian,
8 Oct 2018
Just 90 minutes from Toronto, residents of a First Nations community try to improve the water situation as the beverage company extracts from their land.
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Chile: Remembering September 11 1973
Tito Tricot – The Guardian,
24 Sep 2018
Were the lives of those killed at the World Trade Centre more valuable than the innocents murdered in Chile’s US-backed, Kissinger engineered coup?
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The Real Goldfinger: The London Banker Who Broke the World
Oliver Bullough – The Guardian,
10 Sep 2018
The true story of how the City of London invented offshore banking – and set the rich free.
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US Bombs Are Killing Children in Yemen. Does Anybody Care?
Moustafa Bayoumi – The Guardian,
3 Sep 2018
25 Aug 2018 – This is not a column about Donald Trump. It’s also not about Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen or Robert Mueller, and it’s certainly not about Rudolph Giuliani and his way with words. On the contrary, this is a column about the things we are not paying attention to, and why we should. A lot of bad things can happen when people aren’t looking. The lack of outrage at the US’s key role in this humanitarian disaster raises troubling questions.
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Philippines’ Duterte Shops for Arms on Controversial Israel Trip
Oliver Holmes – The Guardian,
3 Sep 2018
2 Sep 2018 – The Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte, who once compared himself to Hitler and his bloody war on drugs to the Holocaust, will meet the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Monday [3 Sep] on a first visit by a Filipino head of state to Israel.
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BDS: How a Controversial Non-Violent Movement Has Transformed the Israeli-Palestinian Debate
Nathan Thrall – The Guardian,
27 Aug 2018
14 Aug 2018 – Israel sees the international boycott campaign as an existential threat to the Jewish state. Palestinians regard it as their last resort.
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Europe to Ban Halogen Lightbulbs
Arthur Neslen – The Guardian,
27 Aug 2018
23 Aug 2018 – After nearly 60 years of brightening our homes and streets, halogen lightbulbs will finally be banned across Europe on 1 September.
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Dengue Fever Outbreak Halted by Release of Special Mosquitoes
Sarah Boseley – The Guardian,
13 Aug 2018
Insects unable to transmit viruses halted disease in Australian city – now scientists hope same technique could help tackle Zika and malaria.
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‘I Still Have Flashbacks’: The ‘Global Epidemic’ of LGBT Conversion Therapy
Chitra Ramaswamy – The Guardian,
13 Aug 2018
8 Aug 2018 – Mathew Shurka was 16 when he sat down with his father and told him he was gay. He ended up in conversion therapy for five years and saw four therapists in four states at a cost of $35,000. He was instructed to use Viagra when having sex with women. He was told he was a “classic case” of someone with too many female role models and was instructed to avoid his mother and sisters. “As part of my treatment, I didn’t talk to them for three years,” despite living under the same roof.
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Avoiding Meat and Dairy Is ‘Single Biggest Way’ to Reduce Your Impact on Earth
Damian Carrington – The Guardian,
30 Jul 2018
Biggest analysis to date reveals huge footprint of livestock – it provides just 18% of calories but takes up 83% of farmland.
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Ireland Becomes World’s First Country to Divest from Fossil Fuels
Damian Carrington – The Guardian,
23 Jul 2018
12 Jul 2018 – The Republic of Ireland will become the world’s first country to sell off its investments in fossil fuel companies, after a bill was passed with all-party support. It means more than €300m shares in coal, oil, peat and gas will be sold ‘as soon as practicable.’
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Deepwater Horizon Disaster Altered Building Blocks of Ocean Life
Oliver Milman – The Guardian,
2 Jul 2018
28 Jun 2018 – The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster may have had a lasting impact upon even the smallest organisms in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have found – amid warnings that the oceans around America are also under fresh assault as a result of environmental policies under Donald Trump.
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‘Space Force’: Trump Orders New Branch of US Military
David Smith – The Guardian,
25 Jun 2018
Trump claims plan will keep US ahead in space race, prompting fears over militarisation of space. We must have American dominance in space, he says.
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Edward Snowden: ‘The People Are Still Powerless, but Now They’re Aware’
Ewen MacAskill and Alex Hern – The Guardian,
11 Jun 2018
Five years after historic NSA leaks, whistleblower says he has no regrets.
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Avoiding Meat and Dairy Is ‘Single Biggest Way’ to Reduce Your Impact on Earth
Damian Carrington – The Guardian,
4 Jun 2018
Biggest analysis to date reveals huge footprint of livestock – it provides just 18% of calories but takes up 83% of farmland.
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With His Choice of Prime Minister, Italy’s President Has Gifted the Far Right
Yanis Varoufakis – The Guardian,
4 Jun 2018
28 May 2018 – Sergio Mattarella’s defence of the status quo has ensured the success of racist and populist policies.
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Japanese Hunters Kill 120 Pregnant Minke Whales during Summer Months – Report
Daniel Hurst – The Guardian,
4 Jun 2018
30 May 2018 – Of the 333 minke whales caught during the controversial 12-week expedition, 181 were female – including 53 immature ones. Figures show that of the 128 mature female whales caught in the hunt, 122 were pregnant. Conservationists call for end of ‘abhorrent’ whaling programme that Japan, deceitfully, argues is conducted for scientific purposes.
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A Broken Idea of Sex Is Flourishing – Blame Capitalism
Rebecca Solnit – The Guardian,
14 May 2018
12 May 2018 – In this world, women are marketed as toys and trophies. Are we surprised when some men take things literally? Since the Toronto bloodbath, a lot of pundits have belatedly awoken to the existence of the “incel” (short for involuntary celibate) online subculture and much has been said about it. Too often, it has been treated as some alien, unfamiliar worldview.
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Who Are the ‘Incels’ and How Do They Relate to Toronto Van Attack?
Alex Hern – The Guardian,
14 May 2018
25 Apr 2018 – Hours before the Toronto van attack, a post on the Facebook profile of the chief suspect declared that “the incel rebellion has already begun, we will overthrow all the Chads and Stacys”. Suspect appears to have links to misogynistic online community for the ‘involuntarily celibate.’
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Empty Half the Earth of Its Humans. It’s the Only Way to Save the Planet [What?]
Kim Stanley Robinson – The Guardian,
30 Apr 2018
There are now twice as many people as 50 years ago. But, as EO Wilson has argued, they can all survive – in cities.
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Are You Ready? Here Is All the Data Facebook and Google Have on You
Dylan Curran – The Guardian,
9 Apr 2018
30 Mar 2018 – The harvesting of our personal details goes far beyond what many of us could imagine. So I braced myself and had a look.
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Palestinians Hold Day of Mourning after 773 ‘Shot with Live Ammunition’
Hazem Balousha and Oliver Holmes – The Guardian,
2 Apr 2018
31 Mar 2018 – Gaza hospitals, running low on blood and overstretched by the huge number of wounded, were reeling after one of the enclave’s bloodiest days outside of open war, in which Israeli soldiers shot 773 people with live ammunition, according to the ministry of health.
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East West Street, by Philippe Sands – Putting Genocide into Words
Lisa Appignanesi – The Guardian,
19 Mar 2018
“Lawyers should be the last group of people on earth who should be allowed the final word on genocides”. — UCL Professor Philippe Sand
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NGO Crimes Go Far Beyond Oxfam
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
Figures for earthquake relief range from $10bn to $13.4bn. Some of us who visited Haiti have seen little or no sign of that money, write activists.
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Is Whistleblowing Worth Prison or a Life in Exile? Edward Snowden Talks to Daniel Ellsberg
Edward Snowden, Daniel Ellsberg and Ewen MacAskill – The Guardian,
22 Jan 2018
The two most famous whistleblowers in modern history discuss Steven Spielberg’s new film, The Post, about Ellsberg’s leaking of the Pentagon Papers, the personal cost of what they did – and if they’d advise anybody to follow in their footsteps.
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How the Heroin Trade Explains the US-UK Failure in Afghanistan
Alfred W McCoy – The Guardian,
15 Jan 2018
9 Jan 2018 – After fighting the longest war in its history, the US stands at the brink of defeat in Afghanistan. How could this be possible? After 16 years and $1tn spent, there is no end to the fighting – but western intervention has resulted in Afghanistan becoming the world’s first true narco-state.
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Bob Geldof Hands Back Freedom of Dublin in Aung San Suu Kyi Protest
Isabel Bennett – The Guardian,
20 Nov 2017
13 Nov 2017 – Bob Geldof called Myanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, “a handmaiden to genocide” today as he returned his Freedom of the City of Dublin award in protest over her response to the repression of Rohingya Muslims. The Live Aid founder criticised the Burmese Nobel peace prize winner for her silence over military operations that have driven more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims into neighbouring Bangladesh.
→ read full articleUN Report on Rohingya Hunger Is Shelved at Myanmar’s Request
Oliver Holmes – The Guardian,
23 Oct 2017
17 Oct 2017 – The United Nations food aid agency withdrew a critical report revealing desperate hunger among the persecuted Rohingya population after the Myanmar government demanded it be taken down, the Guardian has learned. Document warned of spiralling food crisis among Rohingya population.
→ read full articleOfcom Clears Al-Jazeera of Antisemitism in Exposé of Israeli Official
Graham Ruddick – The Guardian,
16 Oct 2017
10 Oct 2017 – Watchdog also rejects claims broadcaster broke impartiality rules in film of embassy official vowing to ‘take down’ British MPs.
→ read full articleInside the CIA’s Black Site Torture Room
Larry Siems – The Guardian,
16 Oct 2017
9 Oct 2017 – There were twenty cells inside the prison, each a stand-alone concrete box. In sixteen, prisoners were shackled to a metal ring in the wall. In four, designed for sleep deprivation, they stood chained by the wrists to an overhead bar. Those in the regular cells had a plastic bucket; those in sleep deprivation wore diapers. When diapers weren’t available, guards crafted substitutes with duct tape, or prisoners were chained naked in their cells. The cellblock was unheated, pitch black day and night, with music blaring around the clock.
→ read full articleA New Shock Doctrine: In a World of Crisis, Morality Can Still Win
Naomi Klein – The Guardian,
9 Oct 2017
Jeremy Corbyn, Bernie Sanders and Podemos in Spain have shown that a bold and decent strategy can be a successful one. That truth should embolden the left.
→ read full articleMonsanto Banned from European Parliament
Arthur Neslen – The Guardian,
2 Oct 2017
28 Sep 2017 – MEPs withdraw parliamentary access after the firm shunned a hearing into allegations that it unduly influenced studies into the safety of glyphosate used in its RoundUp weedkiller.
→ read full articleTrump Misreads North Korea’s Sacred Dynasty at His Peril
Michael Brabazon – The Guardian,
25 Sep 2017
23 Sep 2017 – References to the regime as a cold war relic, or as communist, Stalinist, or a cult of personality, make easy and colourful soundbites. But do they really help in understanding the motivations of what appears to be a dangerous, anachronistic society? The short answer is no. In the escalating war of insults, Trump is a ‘gangster fond of playing with fire’, Kim Jong-un a ‘madman’ who will be tested as never before.
→ read full articleHostage to Myopic Self-Interest: Climate Science Is Watered Down Under Political Scrutiny
Ian Dunlop – The Guardian,
18 Sep 2017
Scientific reticence allows politicians to neglect the real dangers we face. But waiting for perfect information means it will be too late to act.
→ read full articleThe Guardian View on the Slaughter in Myanmar: A Crime against Humanity
The Guardian | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
4 Sep 2017 – The brutal, bloody, and ultimately pointless mistreatment of a Muslim minority shames [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi who appeared for decades as the epitome of principled and unflinching defence of human rights, now the unfeeling figurehead of a vicious regime.
→ read full articleBrazil Abolishes Huge Amazon Reserve in ‘Biggest Attack’ in 50 Years
Jonathan Watts – The Guardian,
28 Aug 2017
Brazilian president has dissolved Renca to attract investment in region thought to contain gold, with critics warning of irreversible damage.
→ read full articleEarth’s Sixth Mass Extinction Event Under Way, Scientists Warn
Damian Carrington – The Guardian,
17 Jul 2017
Researchers talk of ‘biological annihilation’ as study reveals billions of populations of animals have been lost in recent decades.
→ read full articleHow Economics Became a Religion
John Rapley – The Guardian,
17 Jul 2017
Its moral code promises salvation, its high priests uphold their orthodoxy. But perhaps too many of its doctrines are taken on faith.
→ read full articleNaomi Klein: How Power Profits from Disaster
Naomi Klein – The Guardian,
10 Jul 2017
Take a group of people who directly profit from ongoing war and then put those same people at the heart of government. Who’s going to make the case for peace? After a crisis, private contractors move in and suck up funding for work done badly, if at all – then those billions get cut from government budgets.
→ read full articleGrowing Awareness of Colonial Past Fuels Radicalisation, Says Czech Minister
Patrick Wintour – The Guardian,
26 Jun 2017
An awakening in the Muslim world about the atrocities committed in the West’s colonial past is feeding contemporary radicalisation of communities, said the Czech foreign minister on Wednesday [14 Jun]. Lubomír Zaorálek, likely Social Democrat candidate for prime minister, says in dark speech that the West has 20 years to reach a settlement with Muslim world.
→ read full articleOldest Homo Sapiens Bones Ever Found Shake Foundations of the Human Story
Ian Sample – The Guardian,
19 Jun 2017
Idea that modern humans evolved in East Africa 200,000 years ago challenged by extraordinary discovery of 300,000-year-old remains in Moroccan mine.
→ read full articleChelsea Manning Released from Military Prison
Ed Pilkington – The Guardian,
22 May 2017
17 May 2017 – Chelsea Manning, the army private who released a vast trove of US state secrets and was punished by the US military for months in penal conditions denounced by the UN as torture, has been released from a military prison in Kansas after serving seven years of a 35-year sentence.
→ read full articleMyanmar Army Allegedly Left Rohingya Refugees with Bullet Wounds and Burns
Emanuel Stoakes – The Guardian,
15 May 2017
Shocking photographic evidence showing children among the injured adds weight to claims that military committed atrocities against Rohingya people.
→ read full articleThe Industry of Inequality: Why the World Is Obsessed with Private Security
Claire Provost – The Guardian,
15 May 2017
New Guardian research shows private security workers outnumber public police officers for the majority of the world – in a business that now dwarfs what is spent trying to end global poverty.
→ read full articleThe CIA Has a Long History of Killing or Trying to Kill Leaders around the World
Ewen MacAskill – The Guardian,
8 May 2017
US intelligence agency has since 1945 succeeded in deposing or killing a string of leaders, but was forced to cut back after a Senate investigation in the 1970s. The US never totally abandoned the strategy, simply changing the terminology from assassination to targeted killings, from aerial bombing of presidents to drone attacks on alleged terrorist leaders.
→ read full articleMarch for Science Puts Earth Day Focus on Global Opposition to Trump
Oliver Milman – The Guardian,
24 Apr 2017
More than 600 marches held around the world, with organizers saying science ‘under attack’ from a White House that dismisses the threat of climate change. • Why March for Science? Because when it is attacked, only elites benefit
→ read full articleIsraeli Guidelines Point to Largely Unconstrained Settlement Expansion
Peter Beaumont – The Guardian,
3 Apr 2017
31 Mar 2017 – Israel has indicated it will pursue a unilateral policy of largely unconstrained settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories, as it announced the first new settlement in two decades. Plan outlined by Benjamin Netanyahu would allow building within boundaries of existing blocks, adjacent to them, or close to the blocs.
→ read full articleAung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar’s Great Hope Fails to Live Up to Expectations
Poppy McPherson – The Guardian,
3 Apr 2017
31 Mar 2017 – It was never meant to be this way. A year after her party swept to power, the Nobel laureate faces questions over her leadership and silence on persecution of Rohingya Muslims.
→ read full articleThe East India Company: The Original Corporate Raiders
William Dalrymple – The Guardian,
20 Mar 2017
For a century, the East India Company conquered, subjugated and plundered vast tracts of south Asia. The lessons of its brutal reign have never been more relevant. It was not the British government that seized India, but a private company, run by an unstable sociopath.
→ read full articleUN Experts Denounce ‘Myth’ Pesticides Are Necessary to Feed the World
Damian Carrington – The Guardian,
13 Mar 2017
Report warns of catastrophic consequences and blames manufacturers for ‘systematic denial of harms’ and ‘unethical marketing tactics.’
→ read full article‘Worst View in the World’: Banksy Opens Hotel Overlooking Bethlehem Wall
Emma Graham-Harrison – The Guardian,
6 Mar 2017
British artist launches Walled Off hotel in hope of bringing Israeli tourists–and dialogue–to West Bank city. The Walled Off hotel may sound utilitarian, even bleak. Its owner says it has “the worst view of any hotel in the world”, while its 10 rooms get just 25 minutes of direct sunlight a day.
→ read full articleMem Fox on Being Detained by US Immigration: ‘In That Moment I Loathed America’
Mem Fox – The Guardian,
6 Mar 2017
The celebrated Australian children’s author tells how on her 117th visit to the US she was suddenly at the mercy of Donald Trump’s visa regime. I kept thinking that if this were happening to me, a person who is white, articulate, educated and fluent in English, what on earth is happening to people who don’t have my power? That’s the heartbreak of it. Remember, I wasn’t pulled out because I’m some kind of revolutionary activist, but my God, I am now. I am on the frontline.
→ read full articleStanding Rock Is Burning – But Our Resistance Isn’t Over
Julian Brave NoiseCat – The Guardian,
27 Feb 2017
Water protectors near Standing Rock have set their camp on fire. It’s an act of defiance against a system of oppression that can only be described as colonial.
→ read full articleThe Migrant Slave Trade Is Booming in Libya. Why Is the World Ignoring It?
Ross Kemp – The Guardian,
27 Feb 2017
I’ve seen the dangerous route to Europe through Libya, with thousands of people at the mercy of cruelty for profit. But our leaders prefer to keep them there.
→ read full articleChelsea Manning: To Those Who Kept Me Alive All These Years, Thank You
Chelsea E Manning – The Guardian,
20 Feb 2017
13 Feb 2017 – When I was afraid, you taught me how to keep going. When I was lost, you showed me the way. To those who have kept me alive for the past six years: minutes after President Obama announced the commutation of my sentence, the prison quickly moved me out of general population and into the restrictive housing unit where I am now held.
→ read full articleIt’s Too Late to Stop the Senseless Capture of Palestinian Land
Sarah Helm – The Guardian,
20 Feb 2017
Spineless world leaders have failed to implement international law, stopping the expansion of Israeli settlements.
→ read full articleYemen Wants US to Reassess Counter-Terrorism Strategy after Botched Raid
Julian Borger and Ben Jacobs – The Guardian,
13 Feb 2017
The Yemeni government said on Wednesday [8 Feb] it wants a rethink of US counter-terrorist operations on its territory after a botched commando raid on 29 January that left 25 civilians dead. Sidelining of Trump’s national security council worries experts, who liken decision-making process that led to civilian deaths to ‘shooting from the hip’.
→ read full articleArmy Veterans Return to Standing Rock to Form a Human Shield against Police
Sam Levin – The Guardian,
13 Feb 2017
A growing group of military veterans are willing to put their bodies between Native American activists and the police trying to remove them.
→ read full articleEcuador Presidential Hopeful Promises to Evict Julian Assange from Embassy
Jonathan Watts – The Guardian,
13 Feb 2017
• Presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso says costly asylum no longer justified
• WikiLeaks founder has been living at London embassy for four and a half years
Is America’s Most Common Pesticide Responsible for Killing Our Bees?
Alison Moodie – The Guardian,
13 Feb 2017
A growing body of evidence suggests neonics threaten the health of honey bees. But some argue there’s not enough evidence to justify an outright ban.
→ read full articleIowa Oil Spill Underscores Pipeline Risks Day after Trump Revives Major Projects
Julia Carrie Wong – The Guardian,
30 Jan 2017
Rupture of 138,600 gallons is ‘not a major disaster’ but environmental advocates say it highlights their fears about the Keystone XL and Dakota Access projects.
→ read full articleAid in Reverse: How Poor Countries Develop Rich Countries
Jason Hickel – The Guardian,
23 Jan 2017
New research shows that developing countries send trillions of dollars more to the west than the other way around. Why?
→ read full articleMário Soares (7 Dec 1924 – 7 Jan 2017)
John Hooper – The Guardian,
9 Jan 2017
Towering figure in Portuguese politics who was regarded as the father of his country’s modern democracy.
→ read full articleAnti-Surveillance Clothing Aims to Hide Wearers from Facial Recognition
Alex Hern – The Guardian,
9 Jan 2017
Hyperface project involves printing patterns on to clothing or textiles that computers interpret as a face, in fightback against intrusive technology.
→ read full articleThe Victory at Standing Rock Could Mark a Turning Point
Bill McKibben – The Guardian,
12 Dec 2016
4 Dec 2016 – The news that the US federal government has refused to issue the permit needed for an energy company to run a pipeline under the Missouri river means many things – including that indigenous activists have won a smashing victory, one that shows what nonviolent unity can accomplish. There are lessons here as we enter a challenging new age.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi Accuses International Community of Stoking Unrest in Myanmar
Reuters – The Guardian,
5 Dec 2016
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi accused the international community on Friday [2 Dec] of stoking resentment between Buddhists and Muslims in the country’s northwest, where an army crackdown has killed at least 86 people and sent 10,000 fleeing to Bangladesh. Leader says outsiders are ‘concentrating on the negative side’ of what the UN and Malaysia claim is ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim minority.
→ read full articleFidel Castro: Revolutionary Icon Finally Defeated by Infirmity of Old Age
Richard Gott – The Guardian,
28 Nov 2016
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, revolutionary leader, born 13 Aug 1926; died 25 Nov 2016. Charismatic leader of the revolution and president of Cuba who bestrode the world stage for half a century.
→ read full articleGoodbye, American Neoliberalism. A New Era Is Here
Prof. Cornel West – The Guardian,
21 Nov 2016
Trump’s election was enabled by the policies that overlooked the plight of our most vulnerable citizens. We gird ourselves for a frightening future.
→ read full articleWe’ve Seen Donald Trump before – His Name Was Silvio Berlusconi
John Foot – The Guardian,
14 Nov 2016
Be warned: Italy’s former prime minster promised the world and disdained the truth – and became his country’s third longest-serving leader. The lesson for America is that for far too long Berlusconi was treated as a joke and a clown. By the end, nobody was laughing.
→ read full articleClimate Change Is Intergenerational Theft. That’s Why My Son Is Part of This Story
Naomi Klein – The Guardian,
14 Nov 2016
We still have both the time and power to force our politicians to change course. It’s too late for most of the world’s coral reefs but it’s not too late for all of them. And it’s not too late to keep temperatures below levels that would save millions of lives and livelihoods. For that kind of rapid change to happen, however, we are all going to have to stop being so impeccably calm and reasonable. We’re going to have to find that part of ourselves that feels this threat in our hearts, as well as our heads.
→ read full articleThe US Just Bombed Yemen, and No One’s Talking About It
Moustafa Bayoumi – The Guardian,
17 Oct 2016
15 Oct 2016 – What if the United States went to war and nobody here even noticed? The question is absurd, isn’t it? And yet, this almost perfectly describes what actually happened this past week. The Trump show has managed to bump all serious and necessary policy debates not just off the table but out of the room.
→ read full articleGreenland’s Receding Icecap to Expose Top-Secret US Nuclear Project
Jon Henley – The Guardian,
3 Oct 2016
Camp Century – part of Project Iceworm – is an underground cold war toxic waste network that was thought to have been buried forever.
→ read full articleBees Added to US Endangered Species List for the First Time
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Seven types of the yellow-faced or masked bees once found in great numbers in Hawaii are under threat, federal officials say.
→ read full articleThe Hidden Danger in Your Hand Soap
Sarah Ades and Kenneth Keiler – The Guardian,
3 Oct 2016
Antibacterial agents in handsoaps have been banned in the US. That’s good news – they seep into urine and breast milk, and can promote bacterial resistance. About 40% of soaps use at least one of these chemicals, and the chemicals are also found in toothpaste, baby pacifiers, laundry detergents and clothing. It is in some lip glosses, deodorants and pet shampoos.
→ read full articlePublisher Wins Rights to Voynich Manuscript, a Book No One Can Read
Agence France-Presse – The Guardian,
26 Sep 2016
Tiny Spanish publisher can clone centuries-old manuscript written in language or code that no one has cracked.
→ read full articleI Created the Burkini to Give Women Freedom, Not to Take It Away
Aheda Zanetti – The Guardian,
29 Aug 2016
The burkini does not symbolise Islam, it symbolises leisure and happiness and fitness and health. So who is better, the Taliban or French politicians?
→ read full articleDark Past: So Little Has Changed in Australia’s Posture towards Asylum Seekers
Antony Loewenstein – The Guardian,
15 Aug 2016
After more than two decades of brutalising asylum seekers on the Australian mainland and offshore, this is what Australia represents. These are our ‘values’.
→ read full articleBlair Misled the Country over Iraq – Something Similar Could Happen Again
Clare Short – The Guardian,
11 Jul 2016
Chilcot’s devastating critique of the events that took us to war shows that power in the UK is still concentrated in too few hands, with too little oversight.
→ read full articleThe 1% Are Recovering from 2008 Recession While 99% Are Still Waiting
Jana Kasperkevic – The Guardian,
11 Jul 2016
In 2015, the income of the 99% grew by just 3.9% – ‘the best real income growth in 17 years’ – while the rich saw growth was twice that at 7.7%.
→ read full articleSri Lanka Wants the World to Forget about Justice for War Victims – Please Don’t
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – The Guardian,
4 Jul 2016
With the Sri Lankan government winding back commitments to reconciliation and justice measures, it’s up to the international community to hold them to account.
→ read full articleCluster Bombs Used in Sri Lanka’s Civil War, Leaked Photos Suggest
Emanuel Stoakes – The Guardian,
27 Jun 2016
Exclusive: images appear to confirm use of the indiscriminate weapon in a conflict which cost the lives of at least 100,000.
→ read full articleHow the Pentagon Punished NSA Whistleblowers
Mark Hertsgaard – The Guardian,
30 May 2016
Long before Edward Snowden went public, John Crane was a top Pentagon official fighting to protect NSA whistleblowers. Instead their lives were ruined – and so was his.
• Snowden calls for whistleblower shield after claims by Pentagon source
• Exclusive: Pentagon source goes on record against whistleblower program
As Palestinians Mourn Their Nakba, the UK Must Acknowledge Its Responsibility
Ahmad Samih Khalidi – The Guardian,
16 May 2016
15 May 2016 – Today marks the 68th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe): the Palestinians’ dispossession and the loss of their homeland. Next year is the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. It behooves the UK to face up to its role in the dispossession of the Palestinians. Their plight remains without redress in the UK.
→ read full articleUs Defies Myanmar Government Request to Stop Using Term Rohingya
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Ambassador Scot Marciel says Washington will continue to call persecuted Muslim minority by name objected to by Aung San Suu Kyi’s administration.
→ read full articleLeaked TTIP Documents Cast Doubt on EU-US Trade Deal
Arthur Neslen – The Guardian,
9 May 2016
1 May 2016 – Talks for a free trade deal between Europe and the US face a serious impasse with “irreconcilable” differences in some areas, according to leaked negotiating texts. The two sides are also at odds over US demands that would require the EU to break promises it has made on environmental protection.
→ read full articleSolitary Confinement Is ‘No Touch’ Torture, And It Must Be Abolished
Chelsea E Manning – The Guardian,
9 May 2016
For 17 hours a day, I sat directly in front of at least two Marine Corps guards seated behind a one-way mirror. I was not allowed to lay down. I was not allowed to lean my back against the cell wall. I was not allowed to exercise. Sometimes, to keep from going crazy, I would stand up, walk around, or dance, as “dancing” was not considered exercise by the Marine Corps.
→ read full articleRevealed: How Associated Press Cooperated with the Nazis
Philip Oltermann – The Guardian,
4 Apr 2016
German historian shows how news agency retained access in 1930s by promising not to undermine strength of Hitler regime.
→ read full articleCIA Photographed Detainees Naked Before Sending Them to Be Tortured
Spencer Ackerman – The Guardian,
4 Apr 2016
28 Mar 2016 – The CIA took naked photographs of people it sent to its foreign partners for torture, the Guardian can reveal. A former US official who had seen some of the photographs described them as “very gruesome”. The CIA declined to comment for this story.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Moment of Truth
Nick Davies – The Guardian,
21 Mar 2016
The country’s military rulers claim to have embraced democracy – and will soon transfer formal power to the party led by Aung San Suu Kyi. But an unsolved double murder may suggest the Burmese army is not yet ready to surrender control.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s New President Might Not Be Aung San Suu Kyi, but He Does Represent Progress
Maung Zarni – The Guardian,
21 Mar 2016
For the first time in decades, the Burmese people have a civilian president. Now they must weather the clash of military and opposition proxies to come.
→ read full articleCollapse of a Peace Presidency: Obama’s Speech Highlights Foreign Policy Failures
Spencer Ackerman – The Guardian,
25 Jan 2016
The expectations for Obama were so high he received a Nobel Peace Prize within months. Never a pacifist, he accepted the award with a speech defending the use of military force. He will leave office as Bush did: passing on two wars – one the longest in American history, the other a reboot of the conflict he promised to end.
→ read full articleThe Man Who Exposed the Lie of the War on Drugs
Ed Vulliamy – The Guardian,
4 Jan 2016
“The City of London is a far more important centre for laundering criminal money than the Cayman Islands.” Roberto Saviano already lives under armed guard after writing about the Neapolitan mafia. Now he is determined to uncover capitalism’s complicity with the narco-lords of South America.
→ read full articleThe Death of Universities
Terry Eagleton – The Guardian,
28 Dec 2015
“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. The role of academia has been to service the status quo, not challenge it in the name of justice, tradition, imagination, human welfare, the free play of the mind or alternative visions of the future.”
→ read full article100 Years On, Is This Einstein’s Greatest Gift to Human Understanding?
Paul Davies – The Guardian,
14 Dec 2015
The detection of gravitational waves will open up a new spectrum of the universe – finally demonstrating a theory presented a century ago.
→ read full articleIt Will Take 100 Years for the World’s Poorest People to Earn $1.25 a Day
Jason Hickel – The Guardian,
30 Nov 2015
The sustainable development goals will aim to eradicate poverty by 2030 but our current economic model, built on GDP, could never be inclusive or sustainable.
→ read full articleEnough of Aid – Let’s Talk Reparations
Jason Hickel – The Guardian,
30 Nov 2015
Debate around reparations is threatening because it upends the usual narrative of development. The impact of colonialism cannot be ignored. Europe didn’t develop the colonies. The colonies developed Europe.
→ read full articleForget ‘Fighting Demons’. We Must Learn How to Talk Properly about Alcoholism
Liam Byrne – The Guardian,
30 Nov 2015
My dad was an alcoholic – and what every child of someone with this disease learns is that we can’t change things for our parents. But we can for our children.
→ read full articleI Know Isis Fighters. Western Bombs Falling on Raqqa Will Fill Them with Joy
Jürgen Todenhöfer – The Guardian,
30 Nov 2015
Is it really so hard to see that the attempt to defeat terrorism with wars has failed? That we have to rethink the war on terror? That we have to finally start treating the Muslim world as true partners, and not as a cheap petrol station we can raid when we feel like it? Bombing civilians will recruit new terrorists. Again and again.
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