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Mainstream Media Silences Debate on US New Wars
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
New analysis finds little opposition in mainstream media to latest US military attacks on Middle East nations. In total, 205 sources appeared on the programs discussing military options in Syria and Iraq. Just six of these guests, or 3 percent, voiced opposition to US military intervention. There were 125 guests (61 percent) who spoke in favor of US war.
→ read full articleISIS Is America’s Dream Rebel Army
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
US policy paper reveals desire for construction of full-scale extraterritorial army to invade Syria. Such an army is being built in Iraq and Turkey and it’s called “ISIS.”
→ read full articleA Global House Of Cards
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
As most Americans, if not the financial media, are aware, Quantitative Easing (a euphemism for printing money) has failed to bring back the US economy. The extent of financial corruption involving collusion between the mega-banks and the financial authorities is unfathomable. The Western financial system is a house of cards resting on corruption.
→ read full articleJournalism and Reality
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
10 Nov 2014
So, when I discovered the Contras engaging in a variety of criminal activity, from extrajudicial killings, rapes, torture and drug trafficking, my reporting was unwelcome both inside and outside the AP (and later I encountered the same hostility at Newsweek). The usual response was to challenge my journalism and to pretend that the ugly reality wasn’t the reality.
→ read full article(Português) O Funil da Desigualdade
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi, OpinionSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
A desigualdade de poder (econômico, político, midiático, judicial, repressivo) opera como um tipo de funil que, sem descanso, extrai e concentra riqueza e renda nas mãos de uma ínfima fração da população mundial. Vale revisar como e porquê se gera o funil da desigualdade e a diversidade de medidas que existem para desarmá-lo.
→ read full articlePeace as a Human Right
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
In the beginning was the word. OK. This is the beginning, and these are the words, but they haven’t arrived yet — at least not officially, with full force of meaning. It’s our job, not God’s, to create the new story of who we are, and millions — billions — of people fervently wish we could do so. The problem is that the worst of our nature is better organized than the best of it.
→ read full articleThe Silence of the Israelis on ISIS
Stephen J. Sniegoski – Consortium News,
10 Nov 2014
Has anyone seen a hint that our vital regional ally could be of any assistance at all in the supposedly civilizational battle against ISIS? This is quite in contrast to the complaints about other Middle East countries such as Turkey that are being harshly criticized for their failure to become actively involved in fighting the Islamic State.
→ read full articleAsia for the Asians
Gilbert Rozman – Foreign Affairs,
10 Nov 2014
Why Chinese-Russian Friendship Is Here To Stay
→ read full article(Castellano) El embudo de la desigualdad
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi, OpinionSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
La desigualdad de poder (económico, político, mediático, judicial, represivo) opera como una suerte de embudo que, sin pausa, extrae y concentra riqueza e ingresos en manos de una ínfima fracción de la población mundial. Vale revisar cómo y porqué se genera el embudo de la desigualdad y la diversidad de medidas que existen para desarmarlo.
→ read full articleJob Brokers Steal Wages and Entrap Indian Tech Workers in US
Matt Smith, Jennifer Gollan and Adithya Sambamurthy – The Center for Investigative Reporting,
3 Nov 2014
Investigation documents how exploitation persists – through humiliation, intimidation and legal threats.
•Techsploitation: a graphic novel
•Brokers exploit workers on taxypayers’ dime
The Inequality Funnel
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi, OpinionSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
Inequality of power (economic, political, media, judiciary, repressive) operates as some kind of funnel that, permanently, extracts and concentrates wealth and incomes in the hands of a minimal fraction of the global population. It is worth analyzing how and why the inequality funnel is generated and the diversity of measures available to dismantle it.
→ read full articleTim Cook: ‘I Consider Being Gay among the Greatest Gifts God Has Given Me’
Rupert Neate and Alex Hern – The Guardian,
3 Nov 2014
30 Oct 2014 – Tim Cook, chief executive of Apple, has officially come out as gay and described his sexuality as “among the greatest gifts God has given me.” He has written about his sexuality for the first time, in the hope that he can ‘help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is.’
→ read full articleViolence against Children: UN Gets it Wrong
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
The United Nations has just issued a report, ‘Why Children’s Protection from Violence should be at the Heart of the Post-2015 Development Agenda.’ This is a worthy ideal. Unfortunately, the UN Report does not identify the fundamental cause of violence. Given that human violence now has us on the brink of precipitating our own extinction, it is time we faced the truth and responded meaningfully to it.
→ read full articleUnder Israeli Apartheid, Palestinians Cannot Ride Israeli Buses
Ben Norton – CounterPunch,
3 Nov 2014
28 Oct 2014 – Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has officially banned Palestinians from traveling on Israeli-run public transportation in the West Bank, according to a new report by Haaretz, Israel’s most prominent newspaper.
→ read full articleA Small Band of Activists Is Humiliating an Israeli Shipping Giant
Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
3 Nov 2014
Capping a series of victories by a modest band of pro-Palestinian activists, an Israel-based shipping company has re-routed a container ship from the Port of Oakland, where protestors had vowed to keep the ship from unloading, to an alternate destination in Russia.
→ read full articleThe Entry of Ebola into the US Has Hallmarks of a Planned Happening
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
More information is available that suggests the the government had advance information that ebola was coming to the US and that the government expects a much larger outbreak of the disease in the US than it admits.
→ read full articleIs the US Government the Master Criminal of Our Time?
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
The test consists of giving an ebola vaccine and then exposing the unaware person to ebola, an engineered version for bio-warfare. Drs. Boyle and Broderick in their articles below are correct that experimentation with ebola by the US government is underway in Africa.
→ read full articleWhat West Africa Can Teach the U.S. about Ebola
Kwei Quartey – Foreign Policy in Focus,
27 Oct 2014
Nigeria and Senegal have declared victory on Ebola even as healthcare workers in Texas contract it.
→ read full articleGermans Clear Russia in MH-17 Case
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
27 Oct 2014
For months, Western governments and media have accused Russia of supplying the anti-aircraft missile that brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 killing 298 people. But now German intelligence has reportedly determined the missile came from a Ukrainian military base.
→ read full articleUS Army Withheld Promise from Germany That Ebola Virus Wouldn’t Be Weaponized
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
German High Government Official Seeks Washington’s Reassurance That the US Did Not Weaponize the Species of Ebola That Germany Made Available to Washington
→ read full articleEbola’s Grim Original Secret: How Capitalism and Obscene Military Spending Got Us Here
Robert Hennelly – Salon,
27 Oct 2014
It’s time to look at America’s perverted sense of death, health and prevention — and how we’re spending our money. The Obama administration has appointed an Ebola czar and the military is pulling together a kind of infectious disease SWAT team that can helicopter in the next time a “world-class” American hospital fumbles an Ebola case. Glad that’s resolved.
→ read full articleUnderstanding and Defeating Resurgent Fascism
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
As fascism is being intruded more widely and deeply into key areas of world politics, it is important to identify this trend, to explain the psychology of fascism and to nominate key elements of any strategy to defeat it.
→ read full articleWith US-led Air Strikes on Isis Intensifying, It’s a Good Time to Be a Shareholder in the Merchants of Death
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
20 Oct 2014
Last month American warships fired $65.8m worth of Tomahawk missiles within just 24 hours of each other. So who is winning the war? Isis? Us? The Kurds (remember them?) The Syrians? The Iraqis? Do we even remember the war? Not at all. We must tell the truth. So let us now praise famous weapons and the manufacturers that begat them.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Without a War Is like an Apple Pie without Apples
William Boardman – Reader Supported News,
20 Oct 2014
A Nobel Peace Prize recipient is among the loudest voices for war nowadays. Better, this Nobel Peace prize recipient has unchecked power to wage war and uses it willfully in a variety of nations. Perhaps best, this prize-winning peace president has set out to a plan to make a desert and call it peace, for which a grateful power structure might well give him yet another prize.
→ read full articleObama Fights Ebola with a Czar and Soldiers
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
17 Oct 2014 – The public continues to be reassured that ebola is not a problem for the US, but CNN reports that Obama has appointed an Ebola Czar. The Czar is not a medical person but an insider lawyer who served as chief of staff to Vice President Biden.
→ read full articleUS Army Drafts Blueprint for World War III
Bill Van Auken and David North, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
The Pentagon is preparing for unlimited global warfare and military dictatorship within the United States. The document was formally released at this week’s Association of the United States Army conference.
→ read full articleUkraine’s Neo-Nazis Demand Respect
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
20 Oct 2014
15 Oct 2014 – Thousands of Ukraine’s neo-Nazis surrounded the parliament in Kiev demanding that the government honor Ukrainian paramilitary forces who fought for Adolf Hitler in World War II, another embarrassing reminder of the extremism unleashed by last February’s U.S.-backed coup.
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report 5 (Oct 2014)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D., Anita McKone and Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
Here is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ and a sample of news about, and reports of forthcoming events by, Charter signatories.
→ read full articleInvestigators Find Islamic State Used Ammo Made in 21 Countries, Including USA
Julia Harte and R. Jeffrey Smith – The Center for Public Integrity,
13 Oct 2014
A new report from an arms tracking group highlights how readily arms shipped to the Middle East are transferred from allied groups to hostile ones.
→ read full articleThe Sordid Contra-Cocaine Saga
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
13 Oct 2014
If you ever wondered how the mainstream U.S. media changed from the hard-nosed Watergate press of the 1970s into the brown-nose MSM that swallowed the Iraq War lies, a key middle point was the Contra-cocaine scandal of the 1980s/1990s, the subject of a new movie.
→ read full articlePolice Go Nuts over Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Remote Speech in Vermont
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
13 Oct 2014
When Goddard announced that students had chosen Mumia to be the commencement speaker at their graduation, Philadelphia police, politicians, media, and Fox News went crazy with angry rhetoric aimed at curbing free speech.
→ read full articleCreating a World Culture That Is Nonviolent
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
As we celebrate Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday on 2 October, the International Day of Nonviolence, we have the chance to reflect on our progress in creating a nonviolent world. Culture is not just something we inherit; it is something we create. It can be violent or nonviolent. What sort of culture do you create? Happy birthday Bapu. We are trying!
→ read full articleReview of Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate’ – Extracting Ourselves from the Extractivist Mindset
Robert Jensen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Naomi Klein has written a brave book that not only confronts the calamity of climate destabilization but also examines the deep roots of the crisis in the perverse logic of capitalism and the dehumanizing values of the “extractivist” high-energy/high-technology world.
→ read full articleThe Fake Terror Threat Used to Justify Bombing Syria
Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
6 Oct 2014
Administration officials suddenly began spoon-feeding their favorite media organizations and national security journalists tales of a secret group that was even scarier and more threatening than ISIS, one that posed a direct and immediate threat to the American Homeland: “The Khorasan Group.”
→ read full articleThe CIA/Main-Stream-Media Contra-Cocaine Cover-up
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
6 Oct 2014
With Hollywood set to release a movie about the Contra-cocaine scandal and the destruction of journalist Gary Webb, an internal CIA report has surfaced showing how the spy agency manipulated the mainstream media’s coverage to disparage Webb and contain the scandal.
→ read full article‘Africa’s Arms Dump’: Following the Trail of Bullets in the Sudans
Charlton Doki in Juba and Adam Mohamed Ahmad in Khartoum - The Niles, The Guardian Africa network,
6 Oct 2014
Sudan and South Sudan are among the most heavily armed countries in the world. The Niles investigates how this came about and the consequences of spiraling bloodshed.
→ read full articleThe Real Reason We Are Bombing Syria
Dennis J. Kucinich - Reader Supported News,
29 Sep 2014
This Frankenstein-like experiment of arming the alleged freedom-seeking Syrian opposition created the monster that roams the region. ISIS and the U.S. have a curious relationship — mortal enemies that, at the same time, benefit from some of the same events.
→ read full articlePredatory Capitalism and Poverty, Culprits in the Ebola Catastrophe
Patrick Martin, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
These three countries are among the poorest in the world, ranking 161st (Sierra Leone), 176th (Guinea) and 181st (Liberia) in per capita GDP (185 countries total). Their people live in misery, but the countries themselves are rich in natural resources that have been ruthlessly exploited by major corporations and the governments that enforce their interests.
→ read full articleTackling the Climate Catastrophe Strategically
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
If you like to ask or beg your oppressor to go easy on you, then you do not need to read this article. And if you like to do what makes you feel good at the time, irrespective of its strategic impact, then this article is not for you either. My interest in tackling violence has always been to take action that leaves the perpetrator powerless (but, hopefully, a convert too).
→ read full articleArgentina v. the Hedge Funds
Andrés Cala – Consortium News,
29 Sep 2014
Argentina will go down in history as the country that first stood up to America’s most powerful weapon, its control over global finances, a battle that may catalyze the end of an era for U.S. financial hegemony.
→ read full articleUS Military, Obama Administration Plan Massive Military Escalation in Syria and Iraq
Patrick Martin, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
29 Sep 2014 – The comments this weekend by spokesmen for the White House, the Pentagon and US Congress are part of a carefully orchestrated campaign to prepare public opinion for full-scale war in the Middle East.
→ read full articleNo, Snowden’s Leaks Didn’t Help the Terrorists
Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
22 Sep 2014
Did Edward Snowden’s revelations on NSA surveillance compromise the ability of intelligence agencies to monitor terrorist groups? Contrary to lurid claims made by U.S. officials, a new independent analysis of the subject says no.
→ read full articleTraces of Evil
Robert C. Koehler – Common Wonders,
22 Sep 2014
Hurray! God bless drones and “mission accomplished” and a million Iraqi dead and birth defects in Fallujah. God bless torture. God bless the CIA. But guess what? “Still we continue to face a terrorist threat. We cannot erase every trace of evil from the world, and small groups of killers have the capacity to do great harm.”
→ read full articleNew ISIS Propaganda Film Features Canadian-Sounding Fighter
Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
22 Sep 2014
The militant group Islamic State released a slick and disturbing new propaganda film, “Flames of War,” narrated entirely in English and featuring an Islamic State fighter who speaks with an American or Canadian accent.
→ read full articleJohn Kerry’s Rhetoric on Isis Insults Our Intelligence and Conceals the Reality of the Situation in Syria
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
22 Sep 2014
Anyone who has studied Syria knows the moderate opposition doesn’t exist.
→ read full article
Gitmo Exclusive: Media Brainwashing, Sham Trials & Closing Gitmo for Good (Part II)
Abby Martin, breakingtheset – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Sep 3, 2014 – On Gitmo ‘Transparency’, Review Board Red Tape, Military Commissions Sham, Zero Dark Thirty Lies and Closing Guantanamo for Good.
→ read full articleDutch MH17 Investigation Omits US “Intel”
Tony Cartalucci - Global Research,
22 Sep 2014
The absence of America’s so-called “intelligence” regarding the downing of Malaysia Airlines MH17 over Ukraine in a 34 page Dutch Safety Board preliminary report raises serious questions about the credibility and legitimacy of both America’s political agenda, and all agencies, organizations, and political parties currently behind it.
→ read full articleMalaysia Airlines flight MH17 Whodunnit Still a Mystery
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
15 Sep 2014
More than seven weeks after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed in eastern Ukraine killing 298 people, a preliminary report failed to address the mystery of who shot the plane down. The Dutch investigators didn’t even try to sort through conflicting allegations and evidence.
→ read full articleDefeating the Violence of Psychiatry
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
As the movement to abolish psychiatry continues to gather momentum it is worth reviewing its delusional foundation, the history of its violence and its function as a weapon of elite social control. According to research, in the USA ‘prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer’ and it ‘is inescapable that their availability creates more harm than good’.
→ read full articleThe Disturbing Story from Within: 43 Israeli Elite Veterans Testify for Palestinians
Meron Rapoport – Middle East Eye,
15 Sep 2014
43 veterans from Unit 8200, the top unit of Israeli intelligence, testify how they use information to blackmail Palestinians.
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Gitmo Exclusive: An Untold History of Occupation, Torture & Resistance (Part I)
Abby Martin, breakingtheset – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Sep 2, 2014 – Abby Martin Breaks the Set on the History of Gitmo, Methods of Torture, the Remaining Detainees and the Ongoing Hunger Strikes by Prisoners.
→ read full articleWhere Slaughtered Dolphins Go to Be Sold
David Kirby, takepart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
12 Sep 2014 – As the annual dolphin-killing season begins at the cove at Taiji, Japan, the focus will be on the slaughter. Far less attention will be paid, however, to the fate of dolphins captured and sold to marine-mammal entertainment parks worldwide.
→ read full articleISIS, Libya, NATO and Preventing the Next 9/11
Dennis Kucinich - Reader Supported News,
8 Sep 2014
We must resist the illusion that the only “decisive” response to terrorism is bombing. Instead, we should begin to confront ISIS by drying up its sources of revenue from places like Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
→ read full articleIs Israel Bad for the Jews?
Lawrence Davidson – Consortium News,
8 Sep 2014
Let’s recall that Israel’s reason for being was to give Jews shelter from the ravages of anti-Semitism. Indeed, with but very few exceptions, it is hard to imagine anywhere less safe for Jews than present-day Israel. And, there is growing evidence that Israeli behavior is a major source of today’s increasing anti-Semitism.
→ read full article(Português) Jihadistas na Casa Branca e os Gasodutos da Eurásia
Nazanín Armanian – Carta Maior,
8 Sep 2014
Um dos objetivos da atual ofensiva lançada contra a Rússia pelos EUA é forçar a Gazprom Germania a suspender cerca de 25 projetos que desenvolve na Europa.
→ read full articleRare Insights from Inside Journalism in China: Dai Qing
Dai Qing – The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
8 Sep 2014
A self-confessed “accidental” reporter, Dai Qing has been making waves in Chinese media and society for more than three decades with fearless story-telling and outspoken opinions.
→ read full articleFukushima Crisis Continues, Was Worse Than First Reported
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
8 Sep 2014
Nobody in the world knows how to dispose of radioactive waste safely and permanently. That’s a given. So Tokyo announced on August 29 [2014] that the Fukushima waste would be stored for 30 years in Fukushima prefect, in an “interim facility.” In Japanese, “Fukushima” means “Island of Good Fortune.”
→ read full articleThe Whys behind the Ukraine Crisis
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
8 Sep 2014
Given the very high stakes of a nuclear confrontation with Russia, some analysts wonder what’s the real motive for taking this extraordinary risk over Ukraine. Is it about natural gas, protection of the U.S. dollar’s dominance, or an outgrowth of neocon extremism?
→ read full articleThe U.S. Owns the Narrative on Ukraine – Return of the Evil Empire
Ason Hirthler - CounterPunch,
8 Sep 2014
The United States media machine is unequaled at producing and disseminating misinformation. It begins in the State Department or White House or Pentagon and is filtered out through the government’s front organizations, otherwise known as Mainstream Media.
→ read full articleWashington Piles Lie Upon Lie
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
The latest Washington lie, this one coming from NATO, is that Russia has invaded Ukraine with 1,000 troops and self-propelled artillery. One reason is that Putin has invested heavily in diplomacy backed by unprovocative behavior. He would not risk his bet on diplomacy by sending in troops too few in number to have a decisive effect on the outcome.
→ read full article(Português) A OTAN Desenterra o Machado de Guerra
Flávio Aguiar – Carta Maior,
1 Sep 2014
Nas semanas próximas haverá mudança de comando e definições importantes em matéria da estratégia da OTAN para os próximos anos.
→ read full articleOn Course for Holocaust II…?
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
I believe that what I am going to say needs to be said and should be widely debated if the rising, global tide of “anti-Israelism” (I prefer the term anti-Zionism) is not to be transformed into anti-Semitism on a scale that could lead, in a foreseeable future, to Holocaust II.
→ read full article(Português) De que solidariedade nos fala a União Europeia?
Emir Sader – Carta Maior,
1 Sep 2014
Não se sabe bem por que razão a América Latina teria que ser solidária com a UE e com os EUA, que decidiram sanções contra a Rússia, sem nenhuma consulta a AL.
→ read full articleCause of New Mexico Nuclear Waste Accident Remains a Mystery
Ralph Vartabedian – Los Angeles Times,
1 Sep 2014
23 Aug 2014 – A 55-gallon drum of nuclear waste, buried in a salt shaft 2,150 feet under the New Mexico desert, violently erupted late on Feb. 14 and spewed mounds of radioactive white foam contaminating the nation’s only dump for nuclear weapons waste — and gave the nation’s elite ranks of nuclear chemists a mystery they still cannot unravel.
→ read full articleThe Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza: How the US Enables Israel
Ron Forthofer - CounterPunch,
1 Sep 2014
Many Americans may think this foreign policy issue doesn’t concern them. If they think about this issue at all, many say that it’s not our business and we should just let them fight it out. However the US has been deeply involved in this conflict since before Israel declared its existence.
→ read full articleNisteling: The Art of Deep Listening
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
I believe that this is the essential foundation step in any strategy to end human violence (in all of its manifestations).
→ read full articleHalf-truths, Omissions and Distortions: Palestine, Israel and CNN
Robert Fantina - CounterPunch,
25 Aug 2014
An article on August 18 [2014] on CNN indicates clearly the kind of misinformation it is presenting about the situation, including half-truths, omissions and distortions that may be more damaging that outright lies. The following are some examples, with commentary.
→ read full articleArgentina Is “in the Mood of Tango”
TRT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
The Tango World Championship has turned the streets of Buenos Aires into dance floors packed with tango dancers. As festival’s organizers call it “the world’s biggest tango extravaganza,” most of Buenos Aires has tango fever now. In 2009, tango was recognized by UNESCO as an “Intangible Cultural Heritage.”
→ read full articleTracking Cross-Border Weapons Trade with Youtube
Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer – The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
25 Aug 2014
How German reporters revealed questionable international export practices of a major German arms manufacturer – and how a YouTube video helped break open the case.
→ read full articleAll This Talk of an ‘Apocalyptic’ Threat Is Simply Childish
Robert Fisk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
The word movie is the clue. Chuck Hagel and Martin Dempsey were pure Hollywood. It only needed Tom Cruise at their press conference to utter the words “Mission impossible”. Who writes this God-awful script? Can’t the US Defence Secretary and his joint chiefs chairman do better than this?
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to My Palestinian Friends
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
I wish to acknowledge the sensitivity of some Palestinians to suggestions from those of us who are only Palestinian in the sense that ‘We are all Palestinian’. I did not choose my nationality. I did choose to study, exhaustively, strategic theory and nonviolent strategy so that I could share them with those who might be interested. I have no interest in doing more than offering this suggestion and my help.
→ read full articleU.S. Firm Helped the Spyware Industry Build a Potent Digital Weapon for Sale Overseas
Barton Gellman – The Washington Post,
18 Aug 2014
His contact turned out to be a former developer of computer security tools who had long since turned to the darkest side of their profession, built and sold systems to break into computers, seize control clandestinely, and then copy files, listen to Skype calls, record every keystroke and switch on Web cameras and microphones at will; a shadowy world of lucrative spyware tools for sale to foreign security services with records of human rights abuse.
→ read full articleWhy Socialism?
Albert Einstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.
→ read full articleUK Government to Block Arms Exports to Israel If Military Action Resumes
Rupert Neate – The Guardian,
18 Aug 2014
Announcement comes after lengthy dispute between leading Tories and Liberal Democrats over restriction of arms sales.
→ read full article(Português) Bombardeios dos EUA no Iraque: A Hipocrisia Suprema
Robert Fisk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
A pergunta persiste: os Estados Unidos teriam feito o mesmo se os refugiados do norte do Iraque fossem palestinos? Bombardeariam os agressores?
→ read full articleHow Can We Destroy Love?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
What is love? In essence, love is a feeling. It is not something you experience as a thought, although a thought might arise from the feeling… Self-love is true love. The individual who does not truly love her/himself cannot love another.
→ read full articleThe Universal Abolition of Militarism
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
I was thrilled to read Mairead Maguire’s defence of a demilitarized world, something I’ve been talking about and campaigning for during the last fifty years!!!! However,…
→ read full articleLatin America Closes Ranks in Solidarity with the People of Gaza
Humberto Márquez, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Latin America is the region whose governments have taken the firmest stance in support of Gaza in face of the battering from Israel, withdrawing a number of ambassadors from Tel Aviv and issuing harsh statements from several presidents against the attacks on the Palestinian people.
→ read full articleBombs Away! US to the Rescue – But Only of Certain Minorities, Not Muslims
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
11 Aug 2014
He wouldn’t bomb Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s bloody caliphate when it was butchering the majority Shia Muslims of Iraq. But Barak Obama is riding to the rescue of the Christian refugees – and the Yazidis – because of “a potential act of genocide”. Bombs away. And thank heavens that the refugees in question are not Palestinian.
→ read full articleGaza Blockade Must End
Jimmy Carter and Mary Robinson – The Guardian,
11 Aug 2014
The UN should mandate an end to the siege of Gaza as a first step towards a settlement. There is no humane or legal justification for how the Israeli Defence Force is conducting this war, pulverising with bombs, missiles and artillery large parts of Gaza, including thousands of homes, schools and hospitals.
→ read full articleBoycotting Israel: The Situation Has Changed and I Have Changed My Mind Too
Martin Shaw – Open Democracy,
11 Aug 2014
Israel’s claim to self-defence is much too easily accepted by western governments and media. The present crisis arises following the murder of Israeli teenagers, which Israeli officials now admit was not carried out by Hamas. The killing is an almost routine police action as the Israeli euphemism “mowing the lawn” suggests. The recent escalation of rocket attacks was a response to these Israeli actions.
→ read full article‘I’m Not a Spy:’ Reporters Reveal Surveillance Fears
Hamish Boland-Rudder - The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
11 Aug 2014
U.S. government surveillance programs are scaring away sources, making journalists feel like criminals and spies, and impacting the public’s access to quality news reporting, according to a new report released today [28 Jul 2014].
→ read full article[MUST READ] USB ‘Critically Flawed’ after Bug Discovery, Researchers Say
Dave Lee, Technology reporter - BBC News,
11 Aug 2014
8 Aug 2014 – Cyber-security experts have dramatically called into question the safety and security of using USB. Most famously, the Stuxnet attack on Iranian nuclear centrifuges was believed to have been caused by an infected USB stick. “Basically, you can never trust anything anymore after plugging in a USB stick.” A USB device that appears completely empty can still contain malware, even when formatted.
→ read full articleHatred in the Nuclear Era
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
August 6th, 2014 – “Why are we violent but not illiterate?” asked columnist Colman McCarthy. Well, for one thing, we don’t wrap illiteracy in a shroud of glory and call it war or self-defense or national security; nor have we developed a multi-trillion-dollar industry called the Illiteracy Industrial Complex (or maybe we have, and call it television).
→ read full articleThey Made Them Do It…. – What If the Children Dying in Gaza Were Jews?
Robert Bonomo - CounterPunch,
11 Aug 2014
Assume for a moment that instead of Palestinians, over 1.8 million Jews were crammed into the 11 mile Gaza strip and the state of Palestine, subsidized and supported by a superpower, was administering the calories to the Jews in Gaza, keeping them to a limit of 2,300 a day. Imagine that instead of Palestinian children, it was Jewish children being denied toys, books, music and until a few years ago, even pasta.
→ read full articleThe Syrian War Spills into Lebanon
Jonathan Woodrow Martin - CounterPunch,
11 Aug 2014
Security Council’s Hollow Warning: “Don’t Get Involved” – This was the message delivered to the Lebanese government by the UN Security Council, do not get involved in the conflict in Syria. Anyone with even a basic grasp of the Syrian conflict and the entwined history of Lebanon and Syria will know that this is unrealistic at best and already a moot point.
→ read full articleNote to UK Airport Police: An Israeli Terrorist Is the Same as a Syrian One
Robert Fisk – Belfast Telegraph,
4 Aug 2014
Now, I think it’s a good idea that the lads in blue are keeping their eyes open at Heathrow for British citizens who’ve been fighting in the Middle East. I don’t want to bump into a chap who’s been firing missiles at Christian families in Syria or into a chap who’s been firing tank shells into the homes of Palestinians in Gaza.
→ read full articleLatin American States Use Security Council Seats to Show Strong Support for the ICC and International Justice
Coalition for the International Criminal Court – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
With its mandate to oversee peace and security in the world, the UN Security Council is a prime forum for states to promote justice and accountability. A look at the different votes and initiatives put forward by Latin American Council members over the past few years bears witness to the region’s commitment to justice.
→ read full articleDress the Gaza Situation up All You Like, but the Truth Hurts: The World Is Starting to Turn against Israel
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
4 Aug 2014
There was a time when our politicians and media had one principal fear when covering Middle East wars: that no one should ever call them anti-Semitic. That has changed dramatically.
→ read full articleWe Can Negotiate Peace in Gaza: Here’s How
Dennis J. Kucinich - Reader Supported News,
4 Aug 2014
When our brothers and sisters are killing each other, it is not time for us to take sides, but to take steps, with compassion and clarity, to end the carnage. We must move beyond the pro-Israel, anti-Israel narrative in the Middle East, which can lock us into a position where we must declare support for either Israelis or Palestinians, to the exclusion of the concerns of the other.
→ read full articlePenelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Pedro Almodovar and Others Denounce Israeli ‘Genocide’ in Open Letter
Ben Jones – The Hollywood Reporter,
4 Aug 2014
29 Jul 2014 – Dozens of Spanish film stars, directors, musicians and writers, led by Oscar winners Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Pedro Almodovar, have denounced Israel’s incursion into Gaza.
→ read full articleModern-Day Slavery – Qatar World Cup: Migrants Wait a Year to Be Paid for Building Offices
Robert Booth, and Pete Pattisson in Doha – The Guardian,
4 Aug 2014
Monday 28 July 2014 – Migrant workers who built luxury offices used by Qatar’s 2022 football World Cup organisers have told the Guardian they have not been paid for more than a year and are now working illegally from cockroach-infested lodgings.
→ read full article(Français) Le BRICS, l’UNASUR et la CELAC dessinent une nouvelle carte du monde multipolaire
Alberto Cova– TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Le 22 juillet 1944, il y a exactement 70 ans, s’achevait la réunion dans un hôtel du New Hampshire dans laquelle les Etats-Unis firent prévaloir leurs intérêts devant les délégués de 44 pays et imposèrent la planche à billet illimitée du dollar pour remplacer l’or en tant qu’étalon de la valeur de chaque monnaie dans le monde.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Losing Narrative
Lawrence Davidson – Consortium News,
4 Aug 2014
The Israel government still has most U.S. politicians and pundits under its thumb, but the Zionist narrative – excusing the latest slaughter of Palestinians – is losing the hearts and minds of millions of others around the world.
→ read full articleModern-Day Slavery – Trapped in Qatar: The Migrants Who Helped Build the ‘Tower of Football’
Robert Booth, and Pete Pattisson in Doha – The Guardian,
4 Aug 2014
Despite World Cup host’s promises to improve life for foreign labourers, many still live desperate lives in the shadow of unimaginable riches.
→ read full articleThe NSA’s New Partner in Spying: Saudi Arabia’s Brutal State Police
Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
28 Jul 2014
25 Jul 2014 – The NSA last year significantly expanded its cooperative relationship with the Saudi Ministry of Interior, one of the world’s most repressive and abusive government agencies. An April 2013 top secret memo provided by Edward Snowden details the agency’s plans “to provide direct analytic and technical support” to the Saudis on “internal security” matters.
→ read full articleNever Again to Us
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
“Israel regrets every injury to civilians. I call on the residents of Gaza: Don’t stay there. Hamas wants you to die; we want you to be safe.” – Netanyahu. Glenn Greenwald compared this remark to a 1941 comment by Joseph Goebbels: “One suddenly has the impression,” the Nazi propaganda minister wrote, “that the Berlin Jewish population consists only of little babies whose childish helplessness might move us, or else fragile old ladies.”
→ read full articleWhat If It Had Been 35 Palestinian Dead, and 800 Israeli?
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
28 Jul 2014
Sunday 27 July 2014 – Many hundreds of thousands of people – I wish I could say millions – around the world want an end to this impunity. Impunity is the word that comes to mind. Eight hundred dead Palestinians. Eight hundred. That’s infinitely more than twice the total dead of flight MH17 over Ukraine.
→ read full article{MUST READ} Letter from Gaza by a Norwegian Doctor
Dr. Mads Gilbert – Middle East Monitor,
28 Jul 2014
17 Jul 2014 – The last night was extreme. The “ground invasion” of Gaza resulted in scores and carloads with maimed, torn apart, bleeding, shivering, dying – all sorts of injured Palestinians, all ages, all civilians, all innocent. The heroes in the ambulances and in all of Gaza’s hospitals are working 12-24 hour shifts, grey from fatigue and inhuman workloads, they care, triage, try to understand the incomprehensible chaos of bodies, sizes, limbs, walking, not walking, breathing, not breathing, bleeding, not bleeding humans. HUMANS!
→ read full articleElite Insanity on Display in Ukraine
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
There are some standard and frequently repeated dysfunctional behaviours on display here with the usual unconscious emotional drivers of this behaviour hidden from view. Let us then consider some obvious aspects of the conflict and analyse them from a psychological perspective.
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