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Brazilians Occupying Research Lab Ignite National Debate on Animal Testing
Antonio Pasolini, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
October 18, 2013, was a landmark in the history of Brazil’s animal rights movement. On that Friday more than 100 animal rights activists occupied Instituto Royal, a laboratory that specializes in performing tests on animals for companies in the cosmetics and medical fields.
→ read full articleGlobal Power Project: Exposing the Institute of International Finance (Part 3) – Central Bankers and the IFF
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
In Part 1 of the Global Power Project exposé on the Institute of International Finance, I examined the origins and evolution of an organization representing the interests of global banks. In Part 2, I looked at the role played by the IIF and its leadership during the European debt crisis. In this third and final part in the series, I examine the relationship between the IIF and global central bankers.
→ read full articleNSA Spied on Vatican and Top Catholic Cardinals, Says Italian Report
Huff Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
The weekly magazine, Panorama, reports on Thursday [31 Oct 2013] that the NSA labeled calls in and out of Vatican offices as “leadership intentions,” “threats to the financial system,” “foreign policy objectives,” and “human rights.” Calls regarding election of the new president of the Vatican Bank, Ernst von Freyberg, were also intercepted.
→ read full articleHow Come Uri Avnery Knows So Little about Israel, or Apartheid?
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
What color the victims of apartheid are, what proportion of the population they constitute, whether the economy depends on their productive labor, whether the early Zionists were socialists, whether the Palestinians have a Nelson Mandela, and so on have precisely zero relevance to determining whether Israel is an apartheid state.
→ read full articlePlans for Geneva II Talks on Syria in Disarray
Chris Marsden, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
The aftermath of the Obama administrations forced retreat from direct military intervention to depose Bashar al-Assad and its shift to negotiations with Iran has angered key allies Israel and Saudi Arabia, and set in motion a dramatic foreign policy realignment in Turkey. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s special envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, said, “In my personal opinion, Geneva II will not happen if no opposition representatives attend.”
→ read full articleIsrael Buys the US Congress: Sabotaging the US-Iran Peace Negotiations
Prof. James Petras - Global Research,
4 Nov 2013
As the US and the 5 other countries attempt to negotiate with Iran , they face enormous obstacles overcoming Israel ’s power over the US Congress. Over past decades Israel ’s agents have bought the loyalties of the vast majority of Congress people, training them to recognize and obey the whistles, signals and script from the war mongers in Tel Aviv.
→ read full articleIncreased American Military Presence May Undermine Good Governance Efforts in Africa
Hilary Matfess - Foreign Policy in Focus,
4 Nov 2013
Africa Is Front and Center Now for the Pentagon – Ironically, increased partnerships with the world’s foremost democracy may undermine the democratic process by reducing the importance of public opinion, increasing ‘rent seeking behavior’ in governments, and strengthening autocratic aspects of governments.
→ read full articleA Physics of Peace
Prof. Victor Mansfield – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
There is an extraordinary precise resonance between emptiness and quantum nonlocality, the most important finding at the conceptual foundations of modern physics. Quantum mechanics is undeniably the best theory in the history of science. Despite that, its findings are much less influential than they should be for shaping our modern worldview.
→ read full articlePolio Outbreak in Syria Threatens Whole Region, WHO Says
Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
Polio has broken out among young children in northeast Syria after probably originating in Pakistan and poses a threat to millions of children across the Middle East, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday [29 Oct 2013].
→ read full articleHow Science Is Telling Us All to Revolt
Naomi Klein – New Statesman,
4 Nov 2013
Is our relentless quest for economic growth killing the planet? Climate scientists have seen the data – and they are coming to some incendiary conclusions. The fact that the business-as-usual pursuit of profits and growth is destabilising life on earth is no longer something we need to read about in scientific journals. The early signs are unfolding before our eyes.
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A Whale of a Business
Frontline – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
A behind the scenes look at the ludicrous business that is captivity. This program focuses on the beacon for all captive cetaceans, Keiko. His rehabilitation and eventual release was the center of a controversy about keeping these intelligent animals in barren concrete tanks for our amusement.
→ read full articleEmbassy Espionage: The NSA’s Secret Spy Hub in Berlin
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
According to SPIEGEL research, United States intelligence agencies have not only targeted Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cellphone, but they have also used the American Embassy in Berlin as a listening station.
→ read full articleRussia Alarmed by Fresh Reports Syrian Militants Using Chemical Weapons – FM
The Voice of Russia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
Moscow is deeply alarmed by fresh reports that extremists used chemical weapons on Syrian soil. Russia has expressed its indignation over the lack of coverage that western media have offered to the report on Syrian rebels using chemical weapons against local Kurdish community.
→ read full articleMan Buys $27 of Bitcoin, Forgets about Them, Finds They’re Now Worth $886k
Samuel Gibbs – The Guardian,
4 Nov 2013
Bought in 2009, currency’s rise in value saw small investment turn into enough to buy an apartment in a wealthy area of Oslo.
→ read full articleNacht Und Nebel
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
“Nacht und Nebel” is what the Nazis called
the way they hid the camps,
NSA Whistleblower: Snowden Open to Testifying in Germany
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
Edward Snowden says he is willing to cooperate with investigations into NSA spying. At a meeting with a German lawmaker in Moscow, he reportedly suggested he would be open to coming to Germany, and complained of a US ‘campaign of persecution.’ Berlin has at least signaled readiness to talk.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate} Aung San Suu Kyi and the World of Buddhist Islamophobia
Maung Zarni – Al Jazeera,
4 Nov 2013
The details of this systematic ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya which has been set in motion as a matter of state policy since 1978, and the more recent anti-Muslim mass violence, again with state impunity, generally play second fiddle in the media, to Suu Kyi’s failure to condemn it.
→ read full articleWhere Is the Ethical Leadership over Syria?
Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate – Al Jazeera,
4 Nov 2013
It was tragic to see Western politicians who spoke out against military intervention get slammed for somehow being cowardly. Although their effort would not stop the killing outright, to hold back the war designs of their own leaders was a brave act.
→ read full articleRebels Conduct New Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria near Turkish Border – Report
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
The rebels used chemical weapons in north-eastern Syria near the border with Turkey on Tuesday [29 Oct 2013]. The attack was reported by Kurdish defense forces who are conducting military operations against the rebels in the region.
→ read full articleBreaking Up Is Hard to Do
Silvio Waisbord – Americas Quarterly,
4 Nov 2013
Tackling Latin America’s media empires is critical for the health of democracies.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Drive for Peace
Maung Zarni – The New York Times,
4 Nov 2013
Based on my experience working with the generals as an unofficial advocate for Western re-engagement with the country, I know that the military leaders who may be inclined to compromise hold an instrumentalist view of reconciliation. For them, peace is not a worthwhile goal in and of itself but a means to another end: financial reward.
→ read full articleOn NSA Claims about Misreporting of Two Slides
Glenn Greenwald – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander asserted yesterday [29 Oct 2013] that two “Boundless Informant” slides we published were misunderstood and misinterpreted. Several US journalists (needless to say) instantly treated the NSA’s claims as gospel even though they (a) are accompanied by no evidence, (b) come in the middle of a major scandal for the agency at home and abroad and (c) are from officials with a history of lying to Congress and the media.
→ read full articleU.N. Will Censure Illegal Spying, But Not U.S.
Thalif Deen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
A draft resolution currently in limited circulation – a copy of which was obtained by IPS – criticises “the conduct of extra-territorial surveillance” and the “interception of communications in foreign jurisdictions”. But it refuses to single out the NSA or the United States, which stands accused of spying on foreign governments, including political leaders in Germany, France, Brazil, Spain and Mexico, among some 30 others.
→ read full articleIs Glenn Greenwald the Future of News?
Bill Keller – The New York Times,
4 Nov 2013
The disruptive power of the Internet raises profound questions about what journalism is becoming, about its essential character and values. This week’s column is a conversation — a (mostly) civil argument — between two very different views of how journalism fulfills its mission: Bill Keller and Glenn Greenwald.
→ read full article(Castellano) Los Gobiernos Sudamericanos Deben Apoyar el Derecho de los Hondureños a la Soberanía y Elecciones Libres
Mark Weisbrot - Rebelión,
4 Nov 2013
Como señaló el presidente Rafael Correa de Ecuador en 2009, el golpe de Washington en Honduras también fue una amenaza para la región, así como lo es su colaboración con el gobierno resultante para prevenir que se den elecciones democráticas.
→ read full articleHow the NSA Is Infiltrating Private Networks
Barton Gellman, Todd Lindeman and Ashkan Soltani – The Washington Post,
4 Nov 2013
This graphic shows how the NSA and GCHQ break into those internal networks, using Google’s as an example. Less is known about Yahoo’s networks, but the NSA operations are thought to be similar.
→ read full articleReports That NSA Taps into Google and Yahoo Data Hubs Infuriate Tech Giants
Dominic Rushe, Spencer Ackerman and James Ball – The Guardian,
4 Nov 2013
Google and Yahoo, two of the world’s biggest tech companies, reacted angrily to a report on Wednesday [30 Oct 2013] that the National Security Agency has secretly intercepted the main communication links that carry their users’ data around the world.
→ read full articleIs Brazil the New Regional Champion of Democracy?
Prof. Oliver Stuenkel – Americas Quarterly,
4 Nov 2013
Don’t confuse Brasília’s stepped-up profile with U.S.-style democracy promotion.
→ read full articleMonsanto and Pepsi Trying to Stop GMO Labeling Law in Washington State
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
A Washington State ballot measure to label food featuring genetically modified crops is under fire as food and chemical corporations pour millions of dollars against the campaign.
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Ave Maria – Schubert Classical Guitar (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Lucarelli – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
Michael Lucarelli plays Franz Schuberts’s Ave Maria on classical guitar.
Filmed at the “Cathedral of the Madeleine” in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Malala and Nabila: Worlds Apart
Murtaza Hussain – Al Jazeera,
4 Nov 2013
The only people to be recognized for their suffering in this conflict are those who fall victim to the Taliban. Malala for her struggles was to be made the face of the American war effort while innumerable little girls such as Nabila will continue to be terrorized and murdered as part of this war without end. There will be no celebrity appearances or awards ceremonies for Nabila. At her testimony almost no one even bothered to attend [5 congressmen].
→ read full articleUS Political Dysfunction and Capitalism’s Withdrawal
Richard D. Wolff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
The classic problems of early, rapid capitalist industrialization are obvious daily in the new centers. What we learn about early capitalism when we read Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Maxim Gorky and Jack London, we see now again in the new centers.
→ read full articleSyria: Open Letter to the American People
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
I visited Syria in May 2013. Despite the ongoing violence, I found it to be a land of hope. I met tribal and religious leaders, political dissidents and grieving parents and widows. In Syria there are millions of ordinary folk risking their lives for a peaceful, reconciled and united Syria they can all love.
→ read full articleStop Watching Us: The Video
Electronic Frontier Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
Oct 23, 2013 – StopWatching.us is a coalition of more than 100 public advocacy organizations and companies from across the political spectrum. This video harnesses the voices of celebrities, activists, legal experts, and other prominent figures in speaking out against mass surveillance by the NSA.
→ read full articleSpain Summons US Ambassador over Claim NSA Tracked 60m Calls a Month
Paul Hamilos – The Guardian,
28 Oct 2013
28 Oct 2013 – The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, has summoned the US ambassador to explain the latest revelations by Edward Snowden, which suggest the National Security Agency tracked more than 60m phone calls in Spain in the space of a month.
→ read full articleIsrael: Taking Apartheid Apart
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
Is Israel an apartheid state? This question is not going away. It raises its head every few months. Recently I had the opportunity to discuss this subject with an expert, who had lived in South Africa throughout the apartheid era. I learned a lot from this.
→ read full articleThe ‘German Camp’: Jihadists from Germany Set up Base in Syria
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
A growing number of German jihadists are heading to Syria to join the rebels in their fight against President Bashar Assad. According to German intelligence, some 200 Islamists from across the country have gathered in northern Syria in what’s been dubbed the “German Camp.”
→ read full articleThe US Should Pay Its UNESCO Dues
Nigel Cameron – The Guardian,
28 Oct 2013
The US refuses to pay up because of Palestinian membership in Unesco. It’s a horribly misguided approach.
→ read full articleThe Geopolitics of Education for Peace
Johan Galtung, 28 Oct 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
Thinkers so diverse as Nietzsche and Gandhi saw the military as exemplary because of the ésprit de corps and willingness to sacrifice, even their own lives. For Gandhi the kshatriya (military) caste was a model: he wanted non-violent warriors, with the same perseverance, also indispensable in mediation.
→ read full articleMeditating on the War
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
On January 16,
whoever is running this ashram
turned up the heat—
Toxic Overflow of Thousands of Fukushima Tanks Following Heavy Rains
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
28 Oct 2013
Highly radioactive water crested the walls of some 1,000 storage tanks at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility after plant officials underestimated the amount of rainfall Sunday [20 Oct 2013].
→ read full articleAmerica’s Orphaned Diplomacy
Moritz Laurer – Foreign Policy In Focus,
28 Oct 2013
America’s money-soaked political system simultaneously bolsters the military-industrial complex and undermines diplomacy.
→ read full articleUS CEOs Break Pay Record as Top 10 Earners Take Home At Least $100m Each
Dominic Rushe – The Guardian,
28 Oct 2013
For the first time ever, the 10 highest-paid chief executives in the US received more than $100m in compensation last year, and two took home billion-dollar paychecks, according to a leading annual survey of executive pay.
→ read full articleGlenn Greenwald and the $250 Million “Angel Investor”
Jonathan Franklin – Information Clearing House,
28 Oct 2013
The yet-unnamed media project will be bankrolled by Pierre Omidyar, the 46-year-old billionaire founder of eBay. Omidyar, who was considering buying The Washington Post this year, decided that for the same price – $250 million – he could build his own investigative journalism outfit.
→ read full articleGang Rape in India, Routine and Invisible
Ellen Barry and Mansi Choksi – International Herald Tribune-NYT,
28 Oct 2013
In Mumbai Case, a Group of Assault Suspects Had Little Fear of the Law
→ read full articlePeres Suffering from Portnoy’s Complaint?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
At a cocktail party last year, Peres was overheard telling Vice President Biden, “Who knows if there is a god or not? But if so, I doubt he deals in real estate!” Biden appeared shocked, quickly summoning a waiter for replacement glasses of scotch, hoping to cheer the president of Israel up a bit. “He needs to be more philosophical,” Biden said, reporting on his “psychoanalytic session” with Peres.
→ read full articleMalala and Eartha Kitt: Words that Matter
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
I connect Malala and Eartha Kitt in my mind because both seized the moment to speak truth to power, probably sensing that it meant they would never be invited back [to the White House], and for Eartha Kitt it was worse than that. It seems almost certain that neither of these fearless women would have been invited in the first place if their intentions to speak out had been known in advance.
→ read full article(Italiano) La geopolitica dell’educazione alla pace*
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
Pensatori così diversi come Nietzsche e Gandhi consideravano esemplari i militari a causa dello spirito di corpo e della disponibilità al sacrificio, perfino della propria vita. Per Gandhi la casta kshatriya (militare) era un modello: egli voleva guerrierinonviolenti, con la stessa perseveranza, indispensabile anche nella mediazione.
→ read full articleSpecial Report – Help Wanted in Fukushima: Low Pay, High Risks and Gangsters
Antoni Slodkowski and Mari Saito, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
Tetsuya Hayashi went to Fukushima to take a job at ground zero of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. He lasted less than two weeks.
→ read full article‘Unacceptable’: Mexico Slams US Spying on President
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
The Mexican government says it “categorically condemns” email spying, after SPIEGEL reported that documents leaked by Edward Snowden show the US gained access to the email of former Mexican President Felipe Calderon.
→ read full articleGermany Summons US Ambassador Over Claim NSA Bugged Merkel’s Phone
Philip Oltermann – The Guardian,
28 Oct 2013
24 Oct 2013 – Allegations that US spying has reached highest level of government met with outrage and disappointment in Germany. Foreign minister Guido Westerwelle has called the US ambassador to a personal meeting to discuss allegations that US secret services bugged Angela Merkel’s mobile phone.
→ read full articleWhy Washington Can’t Stop: The Coming Era of Tiny Wars and Micro-Conflicts
Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch,
28 Oct 2013
Despite this stunning global power equation, for more than a decade we have been given a lesson in what a military, no matter how overwhelming, can and (mostly) can’t do in the twenty-first century, in what a military, no matter how staggeringly advanced, does and (mostly) does not translate into on the current version of planet Earth.
→ read full articleMonsanto versus the Associated Press, Round Two
Willy Blackmore, TakePart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
A new AP story focuses on the biotech company’s response to a report on the impact its chemicals have had in Argentina.
→ read full articleLearning from Indigenous Wisdom and Knowledge
R. Teichmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
To Change Society a Cultural Revolution in Activism Is Needed
→ read full articleLibya ‘Awash with Weapons’ – PM
Belfast Telegraph – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
Libya’s prime minister said he is “swimming against the current” in a country awash with militias and weapons as Libyans mark the second anniversary of the killing of dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Ali Zidan spoke to journalists in Tripoli, more than a week after he was seized and briefly held captive by a mix of militiamen.
→ read full articleAll Animals Are Equal
Peter Singer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
If the experimenter is not prepared to use an orphaned human infant, then his readiness to use nonhumans is simple discrimination, since adult apes, cats, mice, and other mammals are more aware of what is happening to them, more self-directing and, so far as we can tell, at least as sensitive to pain, as any human infant.
→ read full articleBlack Market for Counterfeit Goods Rakes in $500 Billion Yearly
ABC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
Counterfeit goods — from luxury handbags to DVDs — are a huge problem. Trade groups claim criminals steal copyrighted material worth half a trillion dollars every year. Counterfeit goods account for nearly 10 percent of worldwide trade, an estimated $500 billion annually, according to the World Customs Organization.
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Paxman Pocketet by Brand (Must Watch)
BBC Newsnight – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
Oct 23, 2013 – Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman in a hostile interview is clobbered by Russell Brand about [not] voting, revolution and changed consciousness.
→ read full articleSlavery in Qatar
The Canadian Charger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
Almost all of the Qatari labor force is made up of foreign workers. These workers are indentured to a Qatari sponsor and cannot leave the country or change employment, get a driver’s license, or rent a home without the sponsor’s consent. Will FIFA stick with Qatar as the site of the 2020 world cup? It shouldn’t.
→ read full articleIran Gives Russia Copy of US ScanEagle Drone as Proof of Mass Production
Saeed Kamali Dehghan – The Guardian,
28 Oct 2013
Iran has given Russia a copy of a US spy drone as proof that its elite forces have reverse-engineered and mass produced the American unmanned aerial vehicle they claim to have captured a year ago.
→ read full articleHow Europe Failed Azerbaijan
Aslan Amani – Open Democracy,
28 Oct 2013
Since Azerbaijan joined the Council of Europe in 2001, the country’s grim human rights record has only become worse. The Council’s and EU’s ambiguous reactions to the October 9 presidential election raise new questions about Europe’s role in Azerbaijan’s transition to democracy.
→ read full articleNo More Foreign Wars? Yet America Is Fighting in Yemen’s Civil War
Ryan Goodman – The Guardian,
28 Oct 2013
On Syria, Obama went to Congress over military action. But in Yemen, the US has joined a counter-insurgency without a word.
→ read full articleElon Musk: Oil Campaign against Electric Cars Is Like Big Tobacco Lobbying
Adam Vaughan – The Guardian,
28 Oct 2013
Tesla chief executive likens attacks on electric cars to campaigns of misinformation by big tobacco and climate skeptics.
→ read full articleAmerican Government in Perspective: Theory versus Practice
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
We may develop a good perspective of the United States government if we were to have a clear concept of its structure and modus operandi. Since World War II ended in 1945, the USA has invaded more than 30 nations. Each time it justifies its belligerent policies by telling us that the primary purpose was to bring freedom and democracy to as many nations as possible.
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(Castellano) Nueva Investigación Sobre el Comercio de Carne de Perro y Gato en China
IgualdadAnimalVideos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
Nueva investigación de Igualdad Animal revela imágenes inéditas del comercio de carne de perros y gatos en China. Desde las granjas donde son criados los animales hasta el transporte a los mercados y mataderos, los activistas han documentado todos los aspectos de esta industria, infiltrándose para ello entre las mafias clandestinas involucradas.
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Frank Sinatra – My Way (Music Video of the Week)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
Composed by Paul Anka in 1974 – Insightful, Powerful Lyrics
→ read full articleFrance to Intensify Military Intervention in Central African Republic
Kumaran Ira, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
The decision by French and US imperialism to support Seleka rebel forces and topple President François Bozizé in March has led to a disaster. There has been a surge in sectarian fighting between Christian and Muslims in this impoverished country, where France, the former colonial power, has dictated the installation of various corrupt regimes since granting CAR formal independence in 1960.
→ read full article(Castellano) España Pedirá Este Lunes Explicaciones a EE.UU. por Supuesto Espionaje
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
El Gobierno de España convocó para este lunes [29 Oct 2013] al embajador de Estados Unidos en España, James Costos, para pedirle explicaciones sobre el supuesto espionaje del país norteamericano a la nación ibérica, tras conocerse que la Agencia de Seguridad Nacional (NSA, por su sigla en inglés) espió a 35 líderes mundiales.
→ read full articleFollow the Rainbow-Bricked Road: The Olympic Flame’s Journey through Russia’s Antigay Provinces
Innokenty Grekov - Human Rights First,
28 Oct 2013
This page will be updated as the torch lighting events arrive in the cities below. Homophobia is widespread in Russia, you all know that by now, and President Vladimir Putin’s government has proved itself willing to exploit it.
→ read full articleJournalist Or Activist? Smearing Glenn Greenwald
David Edwards – Media Lens,
28 Oct 2013
Modern thought control is dependent on subliminal communication. Messages influencing key perceptions are delivered unseen, unnoticed, with minimal public awareness of what is happening or why. For example, journalists tell us that Hugo Chavez was ‘divisive’, that Julian Assange and Edward Snowden are ‘narcissistic’, that George Galloway is ‘controversial’. But beneath their literal meaning, these adjectives communicate a hidden message: that these individuals are acceptable targets for negative media judgement; they are fair game.
→ read full articlePatenting the Food Supply and the Monopolization of the Biosphere
Dr. Vandana Shiva and James Corbett - Global Research,
28 Oct 2013
As the world begins to digest the implications of intellectual property for online censorship, another IP issue threatens an even more fundamental part of our daily lives: our food supply.
→ read full article19 Syrian Rebel Groups Refuse to Take Part in Geneva-2 Peace Talks
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
A total of 19 Syrian rebel groups fighting against President Bashar Assad have refused to take part in the upcoming Geneva-2 peace conference in November. “We announce that the Geneva 2 conference is not, nor will it ever be, our people’s choice or our revolution’s demand,” the groups said Saturday [26 Oct 2013] adding that to disobey this recommendation would be viewed as “treason” and result in the groups having “to answer for it before our courts.”
→ read full articleReport of SR on Occupied Palestine to UNGA, 29 Oct 2013
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
In the present report, while noting the continuing non-cooperation of Israel, the Special Rapporteur addresses Israel’s Operation “Pillar of Defense” and the general human rights situation in the Gaza Strip, as well as the expansion of Israeli settlements – and businesses that profit from Israeli settlements and the situation of Palestinians detained by Israel.
→ read full articleBig Brother’s New Crystal Ball: Washington Develops Online Data Mining Program to Predict Global Political Unrest
Cyril Mychalejko – Toward Freedom,
28 Oct 2013
This initiative involves academics working at the behest of a research branch of the NSA who are using US government-collected online data to actually predict future events, such as political protests, pandemics, and economic crises—with a focus on Latin America.
→ read full articleReport: US and UK Spied on Italian Government
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
U.S. and British intelligence services monitored Italian telecommunications, targeting the government and companies, L’Espresso reported Thursday [24 Oct 2013]. The report, based on evidence from Edward Snowden, is likely to fuel growing anger among Washington’s European allies.
→ read full article(Português) França Espionada: “EUA Não Têm Aliados. Só Alvos e Vassalos”
Eduardo Febbro – Carta Maior,
28 Oct 2013
A França, assim como dezenas de países no mundo, tomou conhecimento de como, quando, quem e com que armas digitais os EUA a espionam até nas sombras.
→ read full articleU.S. Reforms “Open Floodgates” on Arms Exports
Ramy Srour, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
On Tuesday [15 Oct 2013], the largest deregulation in the history of U.S. arms exports took place. But a day after the new reforms came into effect, former government officials and critics from the human rights community are warning of the serious human rights consequences and of the negative long-term impact for U.S. foreign policy.
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The Power of Addiction and the Addiction to Power
Gabor Maté, TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
Canadian physician Gabor Maté is a specialist in terminal illnesses, chemical dependence, and HIV positive patients. His theme at TEDxRio+20 was addiction — from drugs to power.
→ read full articleBahrain Regime Waging War on Own People
Finian Cunningham – Press TV,
28 Oct 2013
The US-backed Bahraini regime is mounting an undeclared, merciless war on the majority Shia population of the tiny Persian Gulf island. Yet, this systematic crime against humanity is proceeding with impunity and barely a murmur of international protest. The regime may be the ones holding the gun, but it is the tacit support of Washington and London that allows these despots to pull the trigger on civilians.
→ read full articleElections to Constituent Assembly II – Voice of the Voiceless People of Nepal
Prof Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
The term “voiceless” represent from among the people who live both at countryside and urban center, but their voice do not necessarily influence the policy formation or decision making at the center. They are the neutral people in all professions often used as elevators by the parties and leaders for their specific purpose, simply vote-banks.
→ read full articleFukushima Fraud and Corruption: Japanese Organized Crime Involved in Recruitment of “Specialized Personnel”
Prof Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
28 Oct 2013
The crisis in Japan has been described as “a nuclear war without a war”. In the words of renowned novelist Haruki Murakami: “This time no one dropped a bomb on us … We set the stage, we committed the crime with our own hands, we are destroying our own lands, and we are destroying our own lives.”
→ read full articleFactory Farming: The True Price of a Pork Chop
Susanne Amann, Michael Fröhlingsdorf and Udo Ludwig – Der Spiegel,
28 Oct 2013
Germany slaughters 58 million pigs a year and has built an efficient meat industry second only to the US in pork exports — but at a hidden cost to the environment and our health.
→ read full articleDaybreak Train
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
For Connor, an uncared boy who chose life.
→ read full articleGood Time in the Movies
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
A young man told his girlfriend, “Tonight we will have a good time, I bought three movie tickets.”
→ read full articleNSA Monitored Calls of 35 World Leaders after US Official Handed Over Contacts
James Ball – The Guardian,
28 Oct 2013
The National Security Agency monitored the phone conversations of 35 world leaders after being given the numbers by an official in another US government department, according to a classified document provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
→ read full articleEU Parliament Votes to Suspend US from Financial Databank to Avoid Spying
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
The European Parliament voted Wednesday [23 Oct 2013] for US access to the global financial database to be suspended. EU lawmakers are concerned that the US is covertly using information from the SWIFT database following leaked US documents aired by Brazil’s biggest television network Globo, which indicated that the US has secretly tapped into SWIFT.
→ read full articleEmpire under Obama (Part 2): Barack Obama’s Global Terror Campaign
Andrew Gavin Marshall – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
Under the administration of Barack Obama, America is waging a global terror campaign through the use of drones, killing thousands of people, committing endless war crimes, creating fear and terror in a program expected to last several more decades. Welcome to Obama’s War OF Terror.
→ read full articleMelted Nuclear Fuel Sank into the Ground under Fukushima Reactors — Irradiated Groundwater Is Flowing into Ocean through Sea-Bottom Springs
Energy News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
It’s Too Late to Do Anything about This: Japan Journalist – A Letter to All Young Athletes Who Dream of Coming to Tokyo in 2020, and to Their Coaches and Parents: Some Facts You Should Know.
→ read full articleProtests Grow as Western Powers, Rival Militias Loot Libyan Oil Industry
Rosa Shahnazarian, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
Over the past two years, the predatory character of NATO’s 2011 war against Libya has emerged most clearly in the looting of the heart of Libya’s economy: its massive oil industry. Virtually none of the frozen oil assets belonging to Muammar Gaddafi, his family and associates have been returned to Libya, and the country’s oil industry is the now subject to power struggles between rival armed groups and foreign oil corporations.
→ read full articleTreating Anti-Syria Charges as Flat Fact
Robert Parry - Consortium News,
28 Oct 2013
With the blessing of the New York Times, the Obama administration has succeeded in cementing a dubious conventional wisdom about the Syrian government’s alleged use of chemical weapons last Aug. 21 – without presenting a shred of actual evidence.
→ read full articleRussell Brand on Revolution: “We No Longer Have the Luxury of Tradition”
Russell Brand – New Statesman,
28 Oct 2013
But before we change the world, we need to change the way we think. The revolution of consciousness is a decision, decisions take a moment. In my mind the revolution has already begun.
→ read full article(Castellano) Londres Desiste de Crear Comisión Con Ecuador Para Resolver Caso Assange
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
Reino Unido decidió rechazar la creación de una comisión conjunta con Ecuador para dar solución al caso del fundador de WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, según informó el canciller de Ecuador, Ricardo Patiño.
→ read full articleDoes America Have a “Licence to Kill”? US Drone War on Yemen Violates International Law
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
These aerial attacks have occurred in almost every province of the country. In the past two years, the number of drone strikes has multiplied and the infrastructure required for these attacks have been expanded.
→ read full article(Português) Subtração de Animais em Laboratórios: Justificável?
Luiz Flávio Gomes, Copyleft – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
“A questão não é saber se são capazes de raciocinar, ou se conseguem falar, mas, sim, se são passíveis de sofrimento… O fato de que os seres não pertencem à nossa espécie não nos dá o direito de explorá-los (…) não podemos deixar de levar em conta seus interesses (…)
→ read full article(Castellano) El Maíz Transgénico en México (en 15 píldoras)
Morral Campesino – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
La introducción del maíz transgénico en México pone en riesgo la biodiversidad de dicha planta, patrimonio de los mexicanos y fuente de diversidad genética para el mundo. La Unión de Científicos Comprometidos con la Sociedad presenta el libro “El maíz transgénico en México (en 15 píldoras)”, texto que fue realizado por diversos investigadores mexicanos de alto nivel.
→ read full articleSyria Rebels against Geneva Peace Talks
SBS Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
The rebels, who met with the so-called Friends of Syria group of 11 countries in London on Tuesday [22 Oct 2013], said they would not take part in the Geneva conference in late November if any regime members were there, and insisted that Assad’s departure was essential.
→ read full articleForthcoming Major Revolution in Global Dialogue
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
Challenging New World Order of Interactive Communication – There is every reason to foresee in the immediate future the possibility that dialogue with artificial intelligence, in a variety of forms, will become more engaging and interesting than that with other human beings.
→ read full articleUSA Must Be Held To Account for Drone Killings in Pakistan
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
New evidence indicates that the USA has carried out unlawful killings in Pakistan through drone attacks, some of which could even amount to war crimes, Amnesty International said in a major new report released today [22 Oct 2013].
→ read full articleVictims of Haiti Cholera Epidemic Sue the United Nations
John Marion, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
On Oct 9 [2013], a lawsuit was filed against the UN in a US federal court by the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux. The suit seeks class action status for all victims of the epidemic, which to date has caused at least 8,300 deaths and left more than 679,000 sick.
→ read full article(Castellano) Líderes africanos se reúnen para crear mercado común y moneda única
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
25 Oct 2013 – Los líderes de 15 naciones miembros de la Comunidad Económica de Estados de África Occidental (Cedeao) se reúnen este viernes en Dakar, capital de Senegal, con el propósito de planificar al creación de un mercado común y una moneda única para el año 2020.
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