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Activist and Iraq War Veteran Vincent Emanuele Speaks Out
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Vince Emanuele is a former US Marine of two tours to Iraq who refused to go again by laying down his weapon. He is now organiser for the Michigan chapter of Veterans for Peace and serves on the national board of directors of Iraq Veterans Against War. He hosts the Veterans Unplugged program on Radio WMS, Michigan.
→ read full articleNSA Blackmailing Obama? | Interview with Whistleblower Russ Tice
Abby Martin, Breaking the Set – Russia Today,
22 Jul 2013
Abby Martin talks to Russell Tice, former intelligence analyst and original NSA whistleblower, about how the recent NSA scandal only scratches the surface of a massive surveillance apparatus. He cites spying orders for specific targets that he saw including former Senators Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama.
→ read full articleGlobal Big Brother and the Snowden Hollywood Chase
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
We will miss the most crucial point of Snowden’s ‘crimes’ if we do not devote our attention to these fundamental political challenges directed at human security, democratic ways of life, and a pluralist world order. To be distracted by the circus of the Snowden chase any longer is to play along with a shameless geopolitical caper!
→ read full articleThe Destruction of Barack Obama
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Some people have been surprised or disappointed by certain decisions of President Barack Obama. His war-making, his use of illegal drone strikes, his failure to close Guantanamo, his failure to genuinely help those ordinary Americans who voted him into office, and even his pursuit of whistleblowers like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden have all raised concerns among those with the audacity to hope that he would be different.
→ read full articleNSA Warned to Rein in Surveillance as Agency Reveals Even Greater Scope
Spencer Ackerman – The Guardian,
22 Jul 2013
NSA officials testify to angry House panel that agency can perform ‘three-hop queries’ through Americans’ data and records.
→ read full articleSurveillance Blowback: The Making of the U.S. Surveillance State, 1898-2020
Alfred W. McCoy - TomDispatch,
22 Jul 2013
In 1898, Washington occupied the Philippines and in the years that followed pacified its rebellious people, in part by fashioning the world’s first full-scale “surveillance state” in a colonial land. The illiberal lessons learned there then migrated homeward, providing the basis for constructing America’s earliest internal security and surveillance apparatus during World War I.
→ read full articleBlond Stewardess
TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
An airline captain was breaking in a new blonde stewardess. The route they were flying had a layover in another city.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
A Global Harmony Association Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day. PLEASE HELP THE WORLD BY SIGNING THE PETITION http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Global_Disarmament_Now_1/.
→ read full articleGlobal Power Project, Part 6: Banking on Influence with Bank of America
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
What is clear is that Bank of America, like all big banks in our era, isn’t merely a financial institution but simultaneously acts as an influential institution in the media, military industrial complex, think tanks, chemical companies and government circles. The bank is too big to fail. Too big to jail. And too connected to change.
→ read full articleCall On President Putin and Russians to Grant Asylum to Edward Snowden
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Edward Snowden, by revealing the existence and extent of the surveillance by the US government and exposing their spying programme that violates national and international laws, has done a great service to humanity. We can all be grateful to this courageous man of conscience for his personal sacrifice in revealing the secret NSA spying programmes. 55 percent of US citizens support his action.
→ read full articleBe the Change: Why Myanmar’s Subversive Band “Side Effect” Is Inspiring Freedom
Matt Carter, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
“Now there’s no censorship, but there’s no guarantee that we won’t go to jail, of course,” explained Side Effect’s lead singer Darko, during the band’s recent concert stopover in Berlin. “The laws are tricky, we’re not sure yet if they would protect us. It’s still dangerous to sing – not even the political but the controversial stuff – to criticize culture or conservatism.”
→ read full articleMonsanto Virtually Gives Up On Growing GMO Crops in Europe
John Upton, Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Monsanto has pretty much given up any hope (at least for now) of selling its genetically engineered seeds for corn, sugar beets, and other crops in Europe, where opposition to GMO food is overwhelming.
→ read full article(Castellano) Brasil Considera Insuficientes Explicaciones de EE.UU. sobre Espionaje
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
El canciller de Brasil, Antonio Patriota, afirmó este lunes [15 Julio 2013] que son insuficientes las explicaciones que el Gobierno de Estados Unidos ha dado sobre las denuncias de espionaje contra el exconsultor de inteligencia norteamericano, Edward Snowden. “Fueron hechas algunas aclaraciones, las consideramos insuficientes”, dijo el canciller brasileño a periodistas.
→ read full articleNothing to See Here: Athens Is Now Closed to Democracy
Yiannis Baboulias – New Statesman,
22 Jul 2013
There are two kinds of deficit that have taken hold in Greece: the economic one, and the democratic deficit created by government spin and five years of austerity and authoritarianism.
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John Lennon – Give Peace a Chance (Music Video of the Week)
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Released in 1969, when the Vietnam War was ravaging. Wake up Anglo America, you changed for the worse!
→ read full articleG’Day Damascus: Australians Are Joining Syria’s Rebels in Surprising Numbers
Ian Lloyd Neubauer - Time,
22 Jul 2013
As many as 6,000 foreign mercenary fighters from nearly 50 nations have now joined the brutal 2½-year civil war in Syria. The vast majority are Islamists from Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Somalia, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey and former Soviet republics. And then there are at least 200 Australians, according to a public statement made by Davd Irvine, director general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.
→ read full articleSyrians Fleeing War at Rate Not Seen Since Rwandan Genocide: U.N.
Michelle Nichols, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The number of people fleeing the conflict in Syria has escalated to an average of 6,000 a day during 2013 – a rate not seen since the genocide in Rwanda nearly two decades ago, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday [16 Jul 2013].
→ read full articleChase, Once Considered “The Good Bank,” Is About to Pay another Massive Settlement
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
22 Jul 2013
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will fine Chase “close to $1 billion” for manipulating energy prices in Enron-esque fashion in Michigan and California.
→ read full articleDo Scientists Pray? Einstein Answers a Little Girl’s Question about Science vs. Religion
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
“Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.”
— Albert Einstein
Patience Running Out in Bulgaria
Nick Thorpe, BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Protesters in Bulgaria pack the streets of Sofia each evening, but after 35 days in a row, their patience with Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski’s government is wafer-thin.
→ read full articleWhat the Empire Didn’t Hear: US Spying and Resistance in Latin America
Benjamin Dangl – Toward Freedom,
22 Jul 2013
US imperialism spreads across Latin America through military bases and trade deals, corporate exploitation and debt, and a vast communications surveillance network into the region’s streets and halls of power. Yet more than McDonald’s and bullets, an empire depends on fear, and fear of the empire is lacking these days in Latin America.
→ read full articleBritish Aid for Myanmar/Burma Ethnic Cleansing
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Britain, the largest donor country and former colonizer of Myanmar, is effectively aiding and abetting the unfolding “ethnic cleansing” of Muslim Rohingya by helping to finance the country’s controversial 2014 national census.
→ read full articleGoldman Sachs Profits Double in Second Quarter
Dominic Rushe – The Guardian,
22 Jul 2013
Goldman Sachs doubled its profits in the second quarter as the bank benefited from gains in fixed income, currency and commodity trading revenue. The Wall Street giant set out its latest quarterly earnings Tuesday [16 Jul 2013] morning announcing net income of $1.93bn, compared with $962m a year earlier. Net revenue, including net interest income, rose 30% to $8.61bn from $6.6bn last year.
→ read full articleEU Publishes Guidelines Barring All Cooperation with Israeli Entities over Pre-67 Lines
AP and Staff - Times of Israel,
22 Jul 2013
The European Union on Friday [19 Jul 2013] formally published new guidelines explicitly banning any EU funding of and cooperation with Israeli institutions operating in territories beyond the pre-1967 lines, amid vigorous Israeli objections. The new directive, to take effect at the start of 2014, requires the EU and its members to cease any joint activity or funding with Israeli entities working over the Green Line in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and in the Golan Heights.
→ read full articleKoodankulam Nuclear Plant Commissioning: An Open Letter to Prime Minister of India and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
Maj Gen S.G.Vombatkere – Counter Currents,
22 Jul 2013
Today is a historic day for two wrong reasons. First: on 16 July 1945 the world’s first experimental nuclear explosion was conducted at Alamogordo, USA, as a precursor to the next two nuclear experiments over Japan. Second, for us in India, it immediately follows the Koodankulam nuclear power plant going critical in contempt of people’s well-founded fears for safety and health through calculated lack of transparency to the questions and issues raised by them.
→ read full article(Português) Stiglitz: É Hora de Questionar as Patentes
Joseph Stiglitz, Prêmio Nobel de Economia – Outras Palavras,
22 Jul 2013
Nobel de Economia afirma que proibir privatização de genes humanos foi só o primeiro passo. Para estimular ciência e inovação tecnológica, sociedades não precisam produzir desigualdades.
→ read full articleJudge Retains “Aiding the Enemy” Charge against Bradley Manning
Matthew MacEgan and Joseph Kishorej, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The US military judge presiding over the court martial of Private Bradley Manning decided Thursday [18 Jul 2013] against dropping the most draconian charge sought by the prosecution, that of “aiding the enemy.”
→ read full article(Português) América Latina Está Bastante Furiosa e a Europa, Um Pouquinho
Juan Gelman, Página 12 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Diante da espionagem dos EUA e do constrangimento causado a Evo Morales, nações latino-americanas elevaram o tom contra os norte-americanos e ofereceram asilo a Snowden. Mas depois se descobriu que também europeus haviam sido espionados. Eles tiveram de reclamar, ainda que num tom mais baixo.
→ read full articleMeet a Moderate Syrian Insurgent
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
22 Jul 2013
You see how hard is the life of a moderate rebel? Not only we have to fight the despicable dictator in Damascus – we fight Shi’ite apostates and we even fight terrorists! Oh, Amrika! The terrorists are among us as well, just as they are among you.
→ read full articleJapanese Nuclear Plant May Have Been Leaking for Two Years
Hiroko Tabuchi – The New York Times,
22 Jul 2013
The nuclear power plant at Fukushima has been leaking contaminated water into the ocean for two years, ever since an earthquake and tsunami damaged the plant, Japan’s chief nuclear regulator said on Wednesday [10 Jul 2013]. In unusually candid comments, Shunichi Tanaka also said that neither his staff nor the plant’s operator knew exactly where the leaks were coming from, or how to stop them.
→ read full articleFree Syrian Army Arming Al Qaeda, ISIL Commander Claims
Bill Roggio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Buried at the end of this Al Jazeera story on tensions between the Free Syrian Army and an al Qaeda affiliate, a leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed that the FSA is selling weapons to the terror group:
→ read full articleNever Worried about a Nuclear Disaster in India? Do It Now, Koodankulam Has Started
Prajnya K – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The Koodankulam nuclear plant went critical this weekend [14 Jul 2013] despite stinging criticism from both pro and anti-nuclear experts. Shouldn’t we be terrified that the plant has been dealing with Russian conmen suppliers, missing wiring and electrocution deaths? Shouldn’t we be scared that the nuclear establishment itself admits that they have no disaster management plans?
→ read full articleEuropean Commission President Meets Religious Leaders
Kumari Kunti Sherreitt, ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Eighteen senior religious leaders from all over Europe met on May 30, 2013 to discuss the EU’s yearly theme of “citizenship” hosted by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, President Van Rompuy and Vice Presiden Laszlo Surjan, and organized by the Bureau of European Policy Advisors.
→ read full articleFull Text of the European Union’s Israeli Settlement Guidelines
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The new European Union directive concerning EU funding for entities established beyond the 1967 border lines including the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.
→ read full articleCNDP Statement on Koodankulam Reaching Criticality
Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The Koodankulam reactor was made critical despite the massive and sustained peaceful popular protests against the plant, and despite numerous warnings by nuclear experts, including former AERB chairman A Gopalakrishnan, about the plant’s vulnerability to hazards and the use of substandard equipment supplied by Russian company Zio-Podolsk. This is profoundly anti-democratic and totally unacceptable.
→ read full article(Português) “Porquê o Socialismo?”
Albert Einstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
“Será aconselhável para quem não é especialista em assuntos económicos e sociais exprimir opiniões sobre a questão do socialismo? Eu penso que sim, por uma série de razões”, afirma Einstein. O artigo foi publicado na edição de lançamento da revista “Monthly Review”, em Maio de 1949.
→ read full articleGlobal Power Project, Part 5: Banking on Influence with Goldman Sachs
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
One of the largest banks in the United States, Goldman Sachs was central to the process of creating the housing bubble that popped in 2007-8, which led to the largest economic crisis since the Great Depression. As Matt Taibbi famously documented in Rolling Stone, Goldman has been involved in “every major market manipulation since the Great Depression,” profiting along the way as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”
→ read full articleAmerica’s Plan B in Egypt: Bring Back the Old Regime
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – Strategic Culture Foundation,
15 Jul 2013
Just as America’s regime change project in Syria is failing, its time in the Middle East is drawing to an end. Those who gambled on Washington’s success, like the Saudi royals, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Erdogan, will find themselves on the losing side of the Middle East’s regional equation…
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
A Global Harmony Association Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day. PLEASE HELP THE WORLD BY SIGNING THE PETITION http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Global_Disarmament_Now_1/.
→ read full articleFukushima Continues
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
15 Jul 2013
The first thing to know about the danger from the radioactive mass remaining in the three reactors that melted down at Fukushima is that nobody knows how much radioactive material there is, nobody knows how much uranium and plutonium it contains, and nobody knows how to make it safe – so no one knows how great the continuing danger is.
→ read full articleSecond FAC Clearance a Preemptive Attempt of Nuclear Authorities to Circumvent Legal Notice and Action
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
The people of India will hold the Government of Tamil Nadu and the Government of India squarely responsible for any untoward incidents that may happen at the KKNPP. They are all playing a dangerous game with the lives of millions of people without complying with several important legal and safety measures such as CRZ clearance for the desalination plants, effluent outlet pipes and so on.
→ read full articleIn ‘Chilling’ Ruling, Chevron Granted Access to Activists’ Private Internet Data
Lauren McCauley - Common Dreams,
15 Jul 2013
A federal [US] judge has ruled to allow Chevron, through Microsoft, to collect the IP records and identity email accounts from over 100 environmental activists, journalists and attorneys. The oil giant alleges having being victim of a conspiracy in the $18.2 billion judgment against it for dumping 18.5 billion gallons of oil waste in the Ecuadorean Amazon, causing untold damage to the rainforest.
→ read full articleArgentina’s President Kirchner: US Industrial Espionage Gave Me Chills down My Spine
Juan Cole, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
The relationship between the United States and Latin America may have just plunged to its lowest level since the 1910s and 1920s, the height of US imperialism in the area, when United Fruit and the Marines imposed themselves on the region.
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Rapper Yasiin Bey (Aka Mos Def) Force Fed under Standard Guantánamo Bay Procedure
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
In this four-minute film made by Human Rights organisation Reprieve and Bafta award-winning director Asif Kapadia, US actor and rapper Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def), experiences the procedure. Warning: Some Viewers May Find These Images Distressing – Guantánamo inmates are submitted to this horrible procedure TWICE DAILY.
→ read full articleWould Jesus Now Be Prosecuted by US?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
As a Law-Breaker — Like Manning, Assange and Snowden — Yes We Can! The pattern follows proceedings by the House Un-American Activities Committee — McCarthyism –, the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without evidence… It is noteworthy that presidents of countries originally named as “terrorists” were subsequently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: Nelson Mandela and Yasser Arafat. Barack Obama is unique in being labelled “terrorist” subsequent to being awarded that distinction.
→ read full articleThe Bomb in My Neighborhood
Franklin Lamb – Al Manar,
15 Jul 2013
This observer’s neighbors seemed to believe, especially over the past year, as most of us did, that the war in Syria would, in one form or another, spill into our neighborhood, Dahiyeh, the Hezbollah stronghold in south Beirut.
→ read full articlePRISM & ‘Purity’: NSA Follows Nazi Tradition
Max Keiser – Russia Today,
15 Jul 2013
The NSA in America is following in the Nazi tradition in its attempt to discriminate based on data collection, modeled around their belief system – which justifies trashing the Constitution in pursuit of ‘pure’ data. All dissenters will be arrested. All assemblies will be broken up. All attempts at nonconformity will be met with harsh prison sentences.
→ read full articleECHELON Today: The Evolution of an NSA Black Program
Tom Burghardt, Antifascist Calling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
While the public is angered by the illegal, unconstitutional nature of NSA programs which seize and store data for retrospective harvesting including the content of phone calls, emails, geolocational information, bank records, credit card purchases, travel itineraries, even medical records, in secret, the historical context of how, and why, this vast spying apparatus came to be is often given short shrift.
→ read full articleNSA Casts Massive Surveillance Net Over Latin America
Bill Van Auken, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
According to Rio de Janeiro-based daily O Globo, the most intensive surveillance has been conducted against US allies Brazil, Colombia and Mexico—and against Venezuela. Also subjected to the NSA surveillance net have been Argentina, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Paraguay, Chile, Peru and El Salvador, according to the O Globo report.
→ read full article(Português) Problemas no Paraíso
Slavoj Žižek, Boitempo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
Problemas no Inferno parecem compreensíveis – sabemos por que as pessoas estão protestando na Grécia ou na Espanha, mas por que é que há problemas no Paraíso, em países prósperos ou que, ao menos, passam por um período de rápido desenvolvimento, como a Turquia, a Suécia e o Brasil?
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Free Syrian Army Place Food Embargo on Aleppo
SyrianGirlpartisan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
Jul 9, 2013 – Interview with a resident. 2-3 million people in Aleppo are threatened with starvation and terror NOW. Famine feared as US/West-supported FSA and Al-Qaida block food from being transferred to government held parts of Aleppo.
→ read full articleNeoliberalism and Public Unrest: Time to Make the Connection
Mandeep Tiwana – Al Jazeera,
15 Jul 2013
While the power of transnational corporations expands, income and wealth disparities are threatening societies. Neo-liberalism, using a dictionary definition, as a “modern politico-economic theory favouring free trade, privatisation, minimal government intervention, reduced public expenditure on social services etc.,” reduces the responsibility of the state while promoting privatisation to favour those with access to resources and influence.
→ read full articleBe Strong Honey, I Love You
TMS editor,
15 Jul 2013
A man escapes from prison where he has been for 15 years. He breaks into a house to look for money and guns and finds a young couple in bed.
→ read full articleNo Justice for Muslims Massacred by Myanmar Buddhists
Todd Pitman, AP – The Japan Times,
15 Jul 2013
9 Jul 2013 – Their bones are scattered in blackened patches of earth across a hillside overlooking the wrecked Islamic boarding school they once called home. Smashed fragments of skulls rest atop the dirt. And among the remains lie the sharpened bamboo staves attackers used to beat dozens of people to the ground before drowning their still-twitching bodies in gasoline and burning them alive.
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Guantanamo Inmate Accuses Military of Rape
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
A detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison is accusing the US military of sexual assault under the guise of maintaining security. In a letter to his lawyers, the inmate claims the practice is widespread.
→ read full articleEndless War
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
When a war has just begun
it can seem like lots of fun—
hunting down the evil prey,
killing bad guys every day.
“External Interference” Complicating Syrian Situation
ABC TV Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
17 June 2013 – Syrian peace activist Mother Agnès-Mariam de la Croix, head of Mussalaha (Reconciliation in Syrian), says that Syrian solutions ought to lie in the hands of the Syrian people, not of foreign governments and terrorists.
→ read full articleAn Unfolding Tale of Two Genocidal “Buddhist” Hells: Myanmar and Sri Lanka
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
The Burmese Bama Buddhists are not alone in Nazi “Buddhist” Hell. They are in good company of the equally genocidal “Buddhists” of Sri Lanka.
→ read full articleGlobal Corruption Barometer 2013
Transparency International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
The Global Corruption Barometer 2013 is the biggest ever survey tracking world-wide public opinion on corruption. We asked over 114,000 people in 107 countries for their views on corruption. Find out what they said in our Global Corruption Barometer 2013.
→ read full articleThe Re-Emergence of Japanese Militarism
John Chan, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
The latest Japanese defence white paper, released on Tuesday [9 Jul 2013], is another unmistakable sign of the resurgence of militarism under the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s right-wing government. The Obama administration in the United States has deliberately fostered the re-emergence of Japanese militarism as part of its “pivot to Asia” aimed at encircling China.
→ read full article“Everyone Is Corrupt, I Have Come to Learn”
Thomas Hedges - Salon,
15 Jul 2013
John Kiriakou, the former CIA officer who blew the whistle on Bush’s torture program and is now in prison, sent an open letter to Edward Snowden last week warning him not to trust the FBI. “DO NOT,” Kiriakou wrote, “under any circumstances, cooperate with the FBI. FBI agents will lie, trick, and deceive you. They will twist your words and play on your patriotism to entrap you.
→ read full article‘Football for All’: Dutch Stand Up for Gay Players’ Rights
Jörg Kramer and Michael Wulzinger – Der Spiegel,
15 Jul 2013
Next month, the Dutch national football team’s coach plans to take a stand for the rights of gay players at the Amsterdam Gay Pride parade. Activitists in Germany, where no professional players are out, hope their football officials will follow his lead.
→ read full articleHow Microsoft Handed the NSA Access to Encrypted Messages
Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, Laura Poitras, Spencer Ackerman and Dominic Rushe – The Guardian,
15 Jul 2013
• Secret files show scale of Silicon Valley co-operation on Prism
• Outlook.com encryption unlocked even before official launch
• Skype worked to enable Prism collection of video calls
• Company says it is legally compelled to comply
The Battle between Countries and Companies
Dick Pountain – Open Democracy,
15 Jul 2013
The wild profits and net worths that the internet has enabled have created a massive power shift, leaving the corporations to overbear the countries they inhabit. In light of this, what are the consequences for both parties?
→ read full articleThe Unreported War in the Congo Killing Millions with the Aid of the United States
Kambale Musavuli, Stop the War Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
So how do you get away with arming a rebel force that attacks UN peacekeepers, rapes women and recruits children? You need powerful friends.
→ read full article(Português) As Redes de Espionagem Secreta das Democracias Ocidentais
Eduardo Febbro – Carta Maior,
15 Jul 2013
O episódio infame que fez com que o avião do presidente Evo Morales fosse bloqueado em Viena com base em um rumor infundado lançado pela Espanha, segundo o qual o ex-agente da NSA norteamericana, Edward Snowden, se encontrava a bordo é a consequência de uma caçada humana lançada pelo Ocidente em nome de um novo delito: a informação. Os “aliados” se espionam entre si e espionam o mundo. Quando alguém resolve denunciar a ditadura tecnológica universal torna-se um delinquente.
→ read full articleThe Infrastructure of a Police State Emerges in Europe
Peter Schwarz, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
Former NSA employee Edward Snowden has exposed the infrastructure of a police state whose surveillance powers far exceed those of totalitarian dictatorships such as the German Nazi regime.
→ read full articleAn Experience of Current Life in Syria
Mother Agnes Mariam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
This report was written from the monastery Mother Agnes headed in Qara, presenting a very human perspective of the ‘revolution’ in Syria.
→ read full articleThe Emotional Lives of Animals
Marc Bekoff – YES! Magazine,
15 Jul 2013
Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience.
→ read full article(Italiano) Umanità 2050: Costruire la Pace con i Nostri Futuri
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
Discorso di apertura, 40° Anniversario del World Futures Studies Federation (Federazione per gli Studi sui Futuri del Mondo) – Bucarest, Romania – “L’Islam offre solidarietà e condivisione di cui l’Occidente ha bisogno, l’Occidente offre diversità e libertà di cui l’Islam ha bisogno. Mutuo apprendimento”.
→ read full articlePutin Dresses Down the Group of Eight
Dawud Rimal – As Safir,
15 Jul 2013
Putin addressed President Obama: “Your country sent its army to Afghanistan in 2001 on the excuse that you are fighting the Taliban, al-Qa‘idah and other fundamentalist terrorists accused of the 9/11 attacks. And here you are making alliance with them in Syria and declaring your desire to send them weapons. And in Qatar, where you have your biggest base in the region, the Taliban are opening a representative office.”
→ read full articleMisreading the Snowden Affair
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
So far in the Snowden Affair it is small Latin American countries, including Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela, that have risked the ire of the United States by pursuing independent policies with respect to Snowden, and acting correctly from the perspective of law and morality.
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GeoEngineering Watch – The Most Important Topic of Our Time
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
Dane Wigington presents hard data that reveals what these catastrophic programs have done to our planet and what they will do if they are allowed to continue. Please take the time to watch this video and share this information far and wide.
→ read full articleHow Unchecked Capitalism Has Brought the World to the Brink of Apocalypse — and What We Must Do Now
Robert Jensen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
If there is to be a decent future, we have to give up on the imperial fantasy of endless power, the capitalist fantasy of endless growth, the technological fantasy of endless comfort. Those systems have long been celebrated as the engines of unprecedented wealth, albeit for a limited segment of the world’s population.
→ read full articleAl Jazeera Journalists Resign En Masse to Protest “Biased Coverage”
Don Irvine – Accuracy in Media,
15 Jul 2013
Al Jazeera, the Qatari-owned Arabic-language broadcaster, suffered a big hit on Monday [8 Jul 2013] when 22 journalists resigned en masse to protest what they said was the network’s “biased coverage” in Egypt.
→ read full articleBoy Recovers from Autism by Removing Dairy & Gluten. Strong Evidence Links Vaccines to Autism
Joe Martino, Collective Evolution – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
Global autism rates are on the rise and many are beginning to ask questions about how they can best treat or remedy symptoms to increase quality of life overall.
→ read full articlePeople Who Pretend to be Your Friend: Collaborators and Traitors
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
One version of this occurs when collaborators justify their collaboration with perpetrators of violence in terms of an ‘obligation to obey’, although many collaborators will characterise their obedience as ‘loyalty’, ‘support’ or ‘helpfulness’ to mask the fear driving their submissive behaviour.
→ read full articleMy Life at Guantanamo
Moath al-Alwi – Al Jazeera,
8 Jul 2013
A detainee at the US prison explains that hunger striking is the only way left to cry out for life, freedom and dignity. This article was translated from Arabic by his attorney, Ramzi Kassem.
→ read full articleFreedumbAndDemocrazy
Sharmine Narwani – Al Akhbar,
8 Jul 2013
When I hear “freedom and democracy” I instinctively look for cover – just as “Allahu Akbar” yelled loudly enough can now make Arabs and Muslims hit the ground fast.
→ read full articleThe Secret War: Cyber
Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Inside Fort Meade, Maryland-USA, a top-secret city, as if designed by Kafka and with tens of thousands of people moving through more than 50 buildings, sits among a forest of trees, surrounded by electrified fences and heavily armed guards, protected by antitank barriers, monitored by sensitive motion detectors, and watched by rotating cameras. To block electromagnetic signals the inner walls of the buildings are wrapped in copper shielding and the one-way windows are embedded with a fine copper mesh.
→ read full articleLiability Issue Puts Doubt on Rosatom Role in Next Indian Reactors
The Moscow Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
07 July 2013 – Russia’s further participation in India’s multibillion dollar Kudankulam nuclear power plant looks uncertain as the two sides have failed to resolve liability in the event of an accident, an Indian official said Friday [5 Jul 2013].
→ read full articlePeople Get Ready: ‘Unprecedented’ Weather Glimpses Century Ahead
Jon Queally – Common Dreams,
8 Jul 2013
Latest Report from the World Meteorological Organization Says First Decade of Century Was Hottest, Wettest On Record with More to Come – “Carbon-dioxide concentration […] reached an average global value of 389 parts per million by the end of the decade, the highest value recorded for at least the past 10,000 years.”
→ read full articleEgypt, Brazil, Turkey: Without Politics, Protest Is at the Mercy of the Elites
Seumas Milne – The Guardian,
8 Jul 2013
From Egypt to Brazil, street action is driving change, but organisation is essential if it’s not to be hijacked or disarmed.
→ read full articleThe Military Coup in Egypt: Challenges of the Transition
Dr. Lakhdar Ghettas, Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
The ousting of President Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian army is a military coup d’état pure and simple. Morsi’s ousting qualifies for a military putsch which is by definition the illegal removal of the head of the state by the army or a faction within it, or the security services, through the use of force or the threat to using it.
→ read full article(Français) Le Coup d’Etat en Egypte: Les Défis de la Transition
Dr. Lakhdar Ghettas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
L’éviction du président Mohamed Morsi par l’armée égyptienne est un coup d’Etat militaire pur et simple. En effet, cette éviction répond à la définition d’un renversement illégal de la tête de l’Etat par l’armée, une faction interne, ou les services de sécurité, par l’utilisation de la force ou de la menace de l’utiliser.
→ read full articleHow Do We Defend Ourselves from the Corporate and Imperial Forces That Threaten Our Existence?
Noam Chomsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Surveying the terrible conflicts in the world, it’s clear that almost all are the residue of imperial crimes and the borders they drew in their own interests. Who owns the global atmosphere being polluted by the heat-trapping gases? Who will defend the Earth? Who will uphold the rights of nature? Who will adopt the role of steward of the commons, our collective possession?
→ read full articleMy Drone
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
I know that I am not alone
in wishing I had my own drone.
General and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
A Global Harmony Association Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day. PLEASE HELP THE WORLD BY SIGNING THE PETITION http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Global_Disarmament_Now_1/.
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Jeremy Irons Talks about the Eurocrisis (Legendas em Português)
RTP1 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
“Does anyone understand to whom we owe so much money?”
→ read full articleWhales Flee from Military Sonar Leading to Mass Strandings, Research Shows
Damian Carrington – The Guardian,
8 Jul 2013
Whales flee from the loud military sonar used by navies to hunt submarines, new research has proven for the first time. The studies provide a missing link in the puzzle that has connected naval exercises around the world to unusual mass strandings of whales and dolphins.
→ read full articleDepositors Beware: Bail-In Is Now Official E.U. Policy
Ellen Brown, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Shifting the burden of a major bank collapse from the blameless taxpayer to the blameless depositor is another case of robbing Peter to pay Paul, while the real perpetrators carry on with their risky, speculative banking schemes.
→ read full articleGlenn Greenwald Speaks Out
WeAreManyMedia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
28 June 2013 – Glenn Greenwald on Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA’s mass surveillance program. Introductions by Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater and the filmmaker behind Dirty Wars, and Sherry Wolf, author of Sexuality and Socialism.
→ read full article10 Causes of Bad Breath
Dr. Edward F. Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Bad breath plagues everyone at some time or another. If you are aware of it, hopefully you try to get rid of it, or at least try to hide it. If you are not aware of it, you may be wondering why people keep their distance.
→ read full articleWorld Futures Conference as Catastrophic Question
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
How to engage with the conference of an organization held in the same academic facility as on the occasion of its foundation 50 years previously — in this case that of the World Futures Studies Federation in Bucharest (2013)? The question has a particular poignancy for a writer involved in the processes of its original creation — meeting the remaining handful of those from that time.
→ read full articleSyria’s [Armed] Rebels in Rift with Aleppo’s [Nonviolent] Civil Opposition
Edward Dark – Al Monitor,
8 Jul 2013
Aleppo’s civil opposition has been swept aside as hard-line armed groups assert their power in the city.
→ read full articleHSBC Wins OK of Record $1.92 Billion Money-Laundering Settlement
Jonathan Stempel, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
2 Jul 2013 – A federal judge has approved HSBC Holdings Plc’s (HSBA.L)(HBC.N) record $1.92 billion settlement with federal and state investigators of charges that it flouted rules designed to stop money laundering and thwart transactions with countries under U.S. sanctions.
→ read full article(Português) Por Que os Médicos Cubanos Assustam [os Brasileiros]
Pedro Porfírio, Cebes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Elite corporativista teme que foco na prevenção abale mercantilização da saúde. Números revelam injustiça orçamentária no ensino e prática da Medicina.
→ read full articleSix-Month Update: US Covert Actions in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia
Jack Serle and Chris Woods – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
8 Jul 2013
• Bureau data suggests the CIA is killing fewer people in each strike in Pakistan.
• Lack of official transparency means it remains unclear who is carrying out strikes in Yemen.
• No reports of US operations in Somalia but al Shabaab continues to launch attacks.
Interview with al-Assad: “In Egypt, the Fall of So-Called Political Islam”
Syrian Arab News Agency-SANA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
“The rifts we have witnessed in modern history have come with the emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood and the negative role they have played. They created a split between Pan-Arabism and Islam to form a country for Islamists and another for nationalists.”
→ read full articleEgypt: The Sphinx and the Muslim Brotherhood
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Al-Afghani was a Sufi but wanted to build a pan-Islamic movement. Thus al-Bamma created the Brotherhood on the model of a Sufi Order with an initiation ritual, a Murshid as leader to whom loyalty is due, a broad ideology with strict organizational control. Al-Afghani was also a French Mason with a tradition of ‘secret’ membership, of loyalty to the leader and a spirit of cooperation and mutual help among its members who recognize each other by codes but who do not advertise their membership.
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