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Pretext for a New War: Obama Lies About Syrian Chemical Weapons
Peter Symonds, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
In a statement issued Thursday [13 June 2013], the Obama administration has declared that the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad has violated “international norms” by using chemical weapons on multiple occasions over the past year. The claim is a transparent lie that will be used by the US and its European allies, Britain and France, as the pretext for arming their right-wing Islamist terrorist proxies and for military intervention.
→ read full articleParque Johan Galtung in Spain
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
PRESS RELEASE 15 June 2013 – Today Alfaz Mayor Vicente Arques unveiled a monument by the famous Basque sculptor Agustin Ibarrola in memory of the victims of the Oslo and Utoya terrorist attacks. The monument is located in a park named in honor of a long time Alfaz resident, Prof. Johan Galtung, Norwegian by birth and known as ‘the father of peace studies.’
→ read full articleNicaragua Approves China-Backed Atlantic-To-Pacific Canal
Don Knowland, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
The Nicaraguan National Assembly enacted legislation June 13[2013] granting a 50-year concession to a Hong Kong company to plan and build a trans-isthmian shipping channel from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea that would rival the Panama Canal.
→ read full articleTerror Bytes: Edward Snowden and the Architecture of Oppression
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
17 Jun 2013
Legendary whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg countered the criticism, writing, “In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden’s release of NSA material—and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago. Snowden’s whistleblowing gives us the possibility to roll back a key part of what has amounted to an ‘executive coup’ against the U.S. Constitution.”
→ read full articleThe New Young Turks
Norman Finkelstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
The Taksim rebellion is his biggest challenge so far. If he can swallow his pride and make real amends, Mr Erdogan could yet repair much of the damage. But polarising the country is in his nature. If that continues, a decade of economic and political stability under the AK party may yet come to a pitiful or even tragic end.
→ read full articleThank NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Please sign a thank-you note that will be delivered to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
→ read full articleSunni Clerics Call for Jihad against Syria’s Assad, Allies
Reuters, Newsmax – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Concluding a conference in Cairo at which more than 70 Sunni scholarly organizations were represented, a leading Egyptian preacher issued a call to holy war on Thursday [13 June 2013] against the Damascus government and its Shi’ite allies. He urged the faithful to send money and arms to Syria and pursue “all forms of jihad.”
→ read full articleWhy Obama is Declaring War on Syria
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
“The Syrian army’s victory at al-Qusayr was more than the [Obama] administration could accept given that town’s strategic position in the region. Its capture by the Assad forces has essentially added Syria to Iran’s list of victories starting with Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, as well as its growing influence in the Gulf.”
→ read full articleIt Won’t Be Easy, But Here’s How You Can Keep All Your Conversations Private
Roberto Baldwin, Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
So how do you communicate without the whole world finding out that you’ve visited the doctor 12 times in the past six months for a mysterious rash? Well it’s not easy, but there are ways to keep your correspondence off the grid.
→ read full articleBetrayed
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Boyish Soviet soldiers believed
they were being sent to Afghanistan
to build hospitals and plant trees.
Everything Is Rigged: This Time, It’s Currencies
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
17 Jun 2013
Given the LIBOR story, the Interest Rate Swap manipulation story, the Euro gas price manipulation story, the U.S. energy price manipulation story, and (by now) countless others of the “Everything is Rigged” variety, this screams out for immediate notice. Via Bloomberg: Traders at some of the world’s biggest banks manipulated benchmark foreign-exchange rates used to set the value of trillions of dollars of investments, according to five dealers with knowledge of the practice . . .
→ read full articleJeremy Scahill Deserves Academy Award, Pulitzer
Tom Hayden – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
After watching Jeremy Scahill’s film, Dirty Wars, and reading his book of the same name, my considered opinion is that he should be nominated for an Academy Award and considered for a Pulitzer Prize. Scahill joins Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzales and MIchael Moore in achieving the successful rise of the alternative media to mainstream impact in the past decade.
→ read full article1,455,590 Iraqis Killed by US War and Occupation
Just Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
The number is shocking and sobering. It is at least 10 times greater than most estimates cited in the US media, yet it is based on a scientific study of violent Iraqi deaths caused by the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003.
→ read full articleThe Whistleblower’s Guide to the Orwellian Galaxy: How to Leak to the Press
Nicholas Weaver, Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this article ran in Wired Opinion last month (“Hear Ye, Future Deep Throats: This Is How to Leak to the Press”). It has been updated given recent events and reflects the author’s new findings about government recording of mail.
→ read full articleUS-Backed “Rebels” Carry Out Sectarian Massacre in Syria
Bill Van Auken, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
At least 60 people, including women, children and the elderly, were killed in a massacre of Shia Muslims by US-backed “rebels” in eastern Syria Tuesday [11 June 2013]. The slaughter in the village of Hatlah was reported by both the Syrian government and by a London-based human rights group that supports the Western-backed terrorist militias trying to overthrow the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
→ read full articleGuide to Your Metadata
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Below, explore some of the data collected through activities you do every day. What you can tell using metadata – A case study of the Petraeus scandal.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 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 articleWATCH: John Oliver Hosts the Daily Show for the First Time
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
“With the NSA scandal the Amish must feel really smart right now.”
Hilarious!
Israel Moving Ahead with 1,000 New Settler Homes
Tia Goldenberg, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Israel is moving forward with plans to build more than 1,000 homes in two small isolated Jewish settlements deep in the West Bank, a spokesman said Thursday [13 June 2013], as Palestinian officials complained that Israel is undercutting U.S. peace efforts at a sensitive time. The announcement drew swift U.S. condemnation.
→ read full articleWhat is the Government’s Agenda?
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Germans in the Third Reich and Soviet citizens in the Stalin era had a better idea of their government’s agendas than do “freedom and democracy” Americans today. The American people are the most uninformed people in modern history.
→ read full articleMy Creeping Concern That the NSA Leaker Is Not Who He Purports To Be…
Naomi Wolf – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
I hate to do this but I feel obligated to share, as the story unfolds, my creeping concern that the NSA leaker is not who he purports to be, and that the motivations involved in the story may be more complex than they appear to be.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden and Whistleblowers: ‘The Truth Sets You Free’
Interviews by Leo Benedictus, Leo Hickman and Richard Norton-Taylor – The Guardian,
17 Jun 2013
Edward Snowden’s leaks about the NSA’s electronic surveillance make him one of the most damaging whistleblowers in history. But what drives loyal employees to reveal the truth? And how do they live with the backlash?
→ read full articleGMO and Monsanto: Glyphosate Weed Killer Found in Human Urine across Europe
Friends of the Earth Europe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
People in 18 countries across Europe have been found to have traces of the weed killer glyphosate in their urine, show the results of tests commissioned by Friends of the Earth Europe and released today [13 June 2013].
→ read full articleNONKILLING: A New Force for a Peaceful World
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
Rhymed Reflections
→ read full articleThe International Criminal Court’s Africa Problem
Solomon Dersso – Al Jazeera,
17 Jun 2013
The ICC’s current list of cases puts into question the international character of the ICC, giving credence to descriptions of the court as being the “International Criminal Court for Africa”. “Its name notwithstanding, the ICC is rapidly turning into a Western court to try African crimes against humanity”.
→ read full articleSpecial Rapporteur’s Report on Occupied Palestine, 10 June 2013
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
What follows below is the text of the report presented on 10 June 2013 to the Human Rights Council. It offers an overview of the situation from the perspective of human rights and international humanitarian law in occupied Palestine. Both Israel and the United States boycotted the session, presumably to express their displeasure with the report and my role as Special Rapporteur.
→ read full articleGaza: 7th Year of Unlawful Blockade (UN HRC SR Press Release)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
I am posting a press release of yesterday, 14 June 2013, to take note of the start of the seventh year of the Israeli blockade. After the Mavi Marmara incident, 31 May 2010 and the more recent November ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Gaza government there was an undertaking to ease the blockade with respect to the flow back and forth of people and goods, but the situation remains desperate for the civilian population of Gaza.
→ read full articleIndependent UN Panel Calls for Diplomatic Surge to End ‘Daily Reality’ of War Crimes in Syria
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
4 June 2013 – With Syria engulfed in an escalating and increasingly brutal civil war, a panel of United Nations human rights experts today issued its latest report on the crisis, detailing war crimes it says were committed by both the Syrian Government and opposition forces, and calling for a “diplomatic surge” to end the violence.
→ read full articleThe Path to Peace in Syria
Mother Agnes-Mariam of the Cross – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Response to the UNHRC Report, “Independent UN Panel Calls for Diplomatic Surge to End ‘Daily Reality’ of War Crimes in Syria” – I want first of all to thank Mrs. Navi Pilay, High Commissioner for Human Rights for her valuable presence in this side event. We are sure that this path for peace is first of all interior, between Syrians and Syrians. To stop the foreign interference, to stop fuelling weapons and fighters, to stop the chain of hatred and radicalization is the path.
→ read full article1,000 US Troops Arrive in Jordan for Deployment at Syria Border
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
The Israeli military intelligence website DEBKAfile has reported that 1,000 U.S troops from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Force arrived at the southern Jordanian port of Aqaba on Tuesday [4 June 2013] and made their way to the north of the country under heavy Jordanian military escort.
→ read full articleSyria: UN Report Reveals Opposition Crimes
Johannes Stern, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
A UN report presented yesterday [4 June 2013] by the International Commission of Inquiry on Syria in Geneva represents a devastating indictment of the United States and Europe and their regional allies, who have fueled a sectarian-based civil war in Syria for more than two years to topple the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
→ read full article(Português) FMI Assume Ter Subestimado os “Estragos” Causados pela Austeridade na Grécia
Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Políticas austeritárias acabaram por conduzir a Grécia a uma recessão sem fim à vista, reconhece o Fundo Monetário Internacional num documento citado pelo The Wall Street Journal. O organismo liderado por Christine Lagarde admite ainda que a dívida grega não era sustentável.
→ read full articleWhose ‘Two State’ Solution? End Game or Intermission?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
In pondering this dismal landscape of peace talk without peace, one wonders what became of ‘the roadmap’ and ‘the Quartet.’ It may be a small blessing that their irrelevance is being tacitly acknowledged. These creations never seemed more than a thin and deceitful veil thrown over a one sided American control over Israel/Palestine diplomacy.
→ read full articleIs It a Mosquito? No, It Is a Drone!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
This device can be controlled from a great distance and is equipped with a camera and microphone; it can land on you and is equipped with a needle capable of retrieving a DNA sample with the pain of a mosquito bite. It’s also capable of injecting a micro radio frequency identification tracking device under your skin, lethal viruses, etc.
→ read full articleEx Japan Prime Minister Naoto Kan Now Sorry He Pushed Export of Nuclear Plant Technology
Erika Toh – The Asahi Chimbun,
10 Jun 2013
If he could turn the clock back, Naoto Kan says he would never have promoted the export of Japanese nuclear plant technology to India, Turkey and Vietnam. “Before March 11 [2011], I was in favor of the safe usage of nuclear plants, but my thinking has changed 180 degrees after that,” he said.
→ read full articleEspionage, Blackmail and Oil—Australian Neo-Colonialism in East Timor
Patrick O’Connor, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
New revelations of illegal Australian government espionage operations during negotiations for the carve up of the oil- and gas-rich Timor Sea have laid bare the neo-colonial character of Canberra’s relations with East Timor.
→ read full articleIsrael Now Has 80 Nuclear Warheads, Report Says
Gavriel Fiske – The Times of Israel,
10 Jun 2013
Of those warheads, 50 are for medium-range ballistic missiles and 30 are for bombs carried by aircraft, the report said. In addition, “Israel may also have produced non-strategic nuclear weapons, including artillery shells and atomic demolition munitions,” the Guardian reported Monday [3 June 2013].
→ read full articleNichts Neues Im Westen
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Back in 1928 Erich Maria Remarque
confronted us with the image
of the beheaded soldier
still running,
Stunt
TMS editor,
10 Jun 2013
A man was sitting at the bar in a watering hole whose selling point was that it was on top of the largest skyscraper in town.
→ read full article(Italiano) Le Americhe: Colombia e USA
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Alcuni anni fa i due paesi erano i leader in ansia mentale nelle Americhe. Ne avevano entrambi buone ragioni: la violenza più persistente in qualunque paese contemporaneo; in Colombia dal 1949 con qualche interruzione, poi di nuovo dal 1964 con le FARC, le famose formazioni guerrigliere. E per gli USA la convinzione che il Male sia dietro ogni angolo, nazionale e globale; meglio avere le armi per trattare a modo quei brutti ceffi.
→ read full articleMeet the ‘Friends of Jihad’
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
10 Jun 2013
Western politicos love to shed swamps of crocodile tears about “the Syrian people” and congratulate themselves within the “Friends of Syria” framework for defending them from “tyranny”. Well, the “Syrian people” have spoken. Roughly 70% support the government of Bashar al-Assad. Another 20% are neutral. And only 10% are aligned with the Western-supported “rebels”, including those of the kidnapping, lung-eating, beheading jihadi kind.
→ read full articleHow A London Court Repudiated Zionist Abuse of the Anti-Semitism Charge
Mike Marqusee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Taunting and tainting opponents with the charge of anti-semitism is a long-standing Zionist ploy, familiar to everyone involved in the Israel-Palestine issue. As their support weakens in the face of evidence-based argument, Israel’s advocates have stepped up their use of the accusation as a means to close down debate, particularly on proposals for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
→ read full article8 June: International Day of the Oceans
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
8 June has been designated by the United Nations General Assembly as the International Day of the Oceans to highlight the important role that the United Nations has played in creating the Law of the Sea and the World Court in facilitating adjudication of maritime delimitations.
→ read full articleSwaziland: Witches Banned From Flying Over 150 Meters
Cora Van Olson, Trutv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
The Civil Aviation Authority’s Marketing and Corporate Affairs Director, Sabelo Dlamini, confirmed the new flight limitations for South Africa’s Times Live, “A witch on a broomstick should not fly above the [150-metre] limit.” Any witches caught violating the altitude limit will be subjected to a fine of R500, 000, about $53,000.
→ read full articleNew World Order Secrecy: Who Will Be Attending the Bilderberg Meeting? What Will Be Discussed Behind Closed Doors?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Reseach,
10 Jun 2013
It is An Anglo-Western European-North American Venue with participants from 21 Western countries (i.e Western Europe, US and Canada). With the exception of British born Polish Minister of Finance, Jacek Rostowski, there are no participants from Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East (with the exception of Turkey). There are 14 women out of 140 participants.
→ read full articleAncient Gay History
Frank Rich – New York Magazine,
10 Jun 2013
… is really just yesterday. My surrogate parent Clayton Coots was one of countless closeted men who didn’t live long enough to see this moment.
→ read full articleLarge US Force Arrives in Jordan for Deployment at Syria Border amid Syria’s Qusayr Victory
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
The Israeli military intelligence website DEBKAfile has reported that 1,000 U.S troops from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Force arrived at the southern Jordanian port of Aqaba on Tuesday [4 June 2013] and made their way to the north of the country under heavy Jordanian military escort.
→ read full articleIMF Admits: We Failed To Realise the Damage Austerity Would Do to Greece
Larry Elliott, Phillip Inman and Helena Smith in Athens – The Guardian,
10 Jun 2013
The International Monetary Fund admitted it had failed to realise the damage austerity would do to Greece as the Washington-based organisation catalogued mistakes made during the bailout of the stricken eurozone country.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Greatest Affliction: The Presstitute Media
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
When Gerald Celente branded the American media “presstitutes,” he got it right. The US print and TV media (and NPR) whore for Washington and the corporations. Reporting the real news is their last concern. The presstitutes are a Ministry of Propaganda and Coverup. This is true of the entire Western media, a collection of bought-and-paid-for whores.
→ read full articleNaomi Klein: ‘Anti-Shock Doctrines’ Show the Way to Resist
Andrea Germanos – Common Dreams,
10 Jun 2013
“Only when the alternatives look tangible, look real, look credible and inspiring will the fear of saying no, of standing up to the troika begin to fade.” We need to have our ideas ready to move forward in a new way, she said. It’s time to build.
→ read full articleSearch for an Alternative Paradigm of Life
Thoudam Damodara Singh, Ph.D. (Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja)– Science and Scientist,
10 Jun 2013
Thus it seems that the scientists are not able to generate life by a combination of biomolecules in the laboratory. It suggests that knowledge of DNA or any bio-molecule will not be able to explain what life is. Rather life could be beyond the assembly of biomolecules. According to Vedanta, the brain in developed living beings is an important organ of the body machinery in which the symptom of consciousness is transmitted. The conscious energy is transmitted from the spiritual soul or ‘spiriton’.
→ read full articleSyria’s Fake Sectarian War
Shamus Cooke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Pro-Jihad religious leaders of Qatar and Saudi Arabia are taking a giant gamble in their recent anti-Hezbollah proclamations, and risk triggering political instability in their own already-shaky regimes, which are hugely dependent on the religious leaders for support.
→ read full articleHungry for Justice at Guantanamo
Ramzi Kassem – Al Jazeera,
10 Jun 2013
Much has been written about the ongoing hunger strike undertaken four months ago today [6 June 2013] at the infamous US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, more than 11 years after its establishment. Today, more than 100 of the 166 prisoners refuse to eat.
→ read full articleHere’s How We Built a Movie Theater for the People – And Why the MPAA Says It’s #1 in the World
Michael Moore – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Listed as #1 is the historic State Theatre of Traverse City, Michigan, an incredible movie palace which I restored and now run as a nonprofit theater – along with a few hundred great volunteers!
→ read full articleRefusing to Accept Sexism
Socialist Worker, editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Several articles at CounterPunch criticized Angelina Jolie for her decision to publicize undergoing a double mastectomy. Here, activists and scholars register their disappointment for sexist language and belittling attitudes. The title of Ruth Fowler’s first article, “Angelia Jolie: On Privilege, Tits, and Being Dumb,” reduces Jolie to a pair of “tits,” what we expect a typical male undergraduate student to say when first introduced to the notion of women’s objectification. CounterPunch also uses titles with ‘dick,’ ‘penis,’ and ‘cock’ in them.”
→ read full articleVigorous Application of Derivative Thinking to Derivative Problems
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Transcending Bewailing, Hand-Wringing and Emotional Blackmail – As many remark, the global situation is in a mess — whether in terms of environment, resources, social services, finances, employment, housing, or conflicts. Of greater concern, however, is the extent to which the response to this mess is itself in a mess.
→ read full articleWhy the Future of Journalism Is in the Story of Solutions
Fran Korten – YES! Magazine,
10 Jun 2013
There’s a catch-phrase turning up in the media world. It’s “Solutions Journalism.” Media organizations are recognizing it’s not sufficient to report just on problems. Our world is hungry for solutions.
→ read full articleThe Race to End Violence before We End Life
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Can we take meaningful action to prevent our own extinction without ending human violence first? If you think it is time to end violence before we end life, you can join this movement. You can read and, if you wish, sign the pledge of ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ online at http://thepeoplesnonviolencecharter.wordpress.com/
→ read full articleKaulana Na Pua – (Hawai’ian Music Video of the Week)
ProjectKULEANA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
KULEANA – Written by Ellen Keho’ohiwoakalani Wright Pendergast in 1893. This was a mele of opposition to the annexation of Hawai’i to the United States.
→ read full articleThe Role of Turkey in the US-NATO-Israeli War on Syria
Cem Ertür - Global Research,
10 Jun 2013
When the U.S. and its allies launched the covert war on Syria in 2011, they were expecting that either Syria’s political establishment would collapse within a short duration or they would find a way to ignite an open war. As Syria’s leaders and people proved to be exceptionally resilient, increasingly more brutal means have been deployed to tear the country apart. Being at the forefront of this covert war in every respect, Turkey has been thoroughly complicit in monumental war crimes committed against the neighbouring people of Syria.
→ read full articleSeven Myths about Bradley Manning
Chase Madar – The Nation,
10 Jun 2013
Myth # 1: It is routinely asserted or implied that Manning declassified the field reports and diplomatic cables because he is a nut job, or because he is gay, or because he is a gay nut job. In fact, Manning’s motive was expressly political: “I want people to see the truth…regardless of who they are…because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.”
→ read full articleWorld Nuclear Forces—Reductions and Modernization Continue
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
3 June 2013 – At the start of 2013 eight states—the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan and Israel—possessed approximately 4400 operational nuclear weapons. Nearly 2000 of these are kept in a state of high operational alert. If all nuclear warheads are counted, these states together possess a total of approximately 17 265 nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleDiscovery of Monsanto GMO Wheat Threatens US Exports
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
The discovery of a Monsanto-created, genetically modified strain of wheat in the US that was never approved by the United States Department of Agriculture has imperiled US exports of a staple world food commodity.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 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 articleAnti-LGBT Rampage in Georgia Exposes Frustrations with the West
Molly Corso – Inter Press Service-IPS,
10 Jun 2013
While most Georgians condemn the violent May 17 [2013] attack on an anti-homophobia rally, many do not see the core issue as having anything to do with a lack of tolerance, a right to freedom of assembly or respect for minority rights.
→ read full articleSaudi Prince Sues Forbes after It Says He’s ‘Only’ Worth $20 Billion
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has sued Forbes for libel alleging its valuation of his wealth was short of the mark by $9.6 billion, The Guardian reported on Friday [7 June 2013]. He owns large stakes in Citigroup, News Corp and Apple Inc among others, and is also owner or part-owner of luxury hotels including the Plaza in New York, the Savoy in London and the George V in Paris.
→ read full articleHumanity Imperiled – The Path to Disaster
Noam Chomsky - TomDispatch,
10 Jun 2013
It’s not that there are no alternatives. The alternatives just aren’t being taken. That’s dangerous. So if you ask what the world is going to look like, it’s not a pretty picture. Unless people do something about it. We always can.
→ read full articlePalestinian Plight Hits UEFA Spotlight
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Desmond Tutu, the leading South African anti-apartheid campaigner and Nobel peace laureate, in a letter to The Guardian argued along with other prominent human rights activists that UEFA was acting to “whitewash” Israeli racism. “We find it shocking that [UEFA] shows total insensitivity to the blatant and entrenched discrimination inflicted on Palestinian sportsmen and women by Israel,” they wrote.
→ read full articleStudent Science Experiment Finds Plants Won’t Grow Near Wi-Fi Router
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
The results were blatantly obvious — the cress seeds placed near the radiation emitter Wi-Fi router had not grown. Many of them were completely dead. While the cress seeds planted in the other room, away from the routers, thrived. The experiment earned the girls top honors in a regional science competition and the interest of scientists around the world.
→ read full articleUS And Israel Lobby Reel from Hezbollah Al-Qusayr Victory
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Plenty of adjectives and some clichés are being bandied about from Washington to Beirut to describe the al-Qusayr battle results and significance. Among them are game-changer, mother of all battles, a new regime approach to fighting, altered balance of power, critical turning point in the civil war, and so on. Perhaps less appreciated here in Beirut are al-Qusayr’s effects on the Zionist occupiers of Palestine and their currently traumatized US lobby.
→ read full article(Português) Alysson Mascaro: Uma Crítica Social do Estado
Carta Maior – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
O jurista e professor da USP e do Mackenzie Alysson Mascaro fala à TV Carta Maior e ressalta o caráter revolucionário de uma efetiva crítica social do Estado. Ele acaba de lançar o livro ‘Estado e Forma Política’, apontado por Slavoj Žižek como ‘a obra mais importante do pensamento político marxista nas últimas décadas’.
→ read full articleMerkel and Hollande Call For Full-Time Euro President
Andrew Rettman – EUObserver,
10 Jun 2013
The idea came in a joint text published on Thursday (30 May 2013) during Merkel’s visit to Paris.
→ read full article“The Monsanto Protection Plan”: Monsanto’s Deception Game on GMO in Europe
F. William Engdahl – Global Research,
10 Jun 2013
On May 31 [2013] world media headlines read similar to this from Reuters: “Monsanto backing away from GMO crops in Europe.” But this is what Monsanto says: ”Right now the media is flooded with reports that Monsanto has stopped the marketing of GMO seeds in Germany and the EU. That is not correct… We have a robust business selling high-quality, conventional corn, oilseed rape and vegetable seeds to our farmer customers in Europe.”
→ read full articleHow Democratic Is Turkey?
Steven A. Cook, Michael Koplow – Foreign Policy,
10 Jun 2013
Not as Democratic as Washington Thinks It Is – The ferocity of the protests and police response in Istanbul’s Gezi Park is no doubt a surprise to many in Washington. Turkey, that “excellent model” or “model partner,” repeated ad nauseum, misrepresents the complex and often contradictory political processes underway in Turkey.
→ read full articleNSA Prism Program Taps In to User Data of Apple, Google and Others
Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill – The Guardian,
10 Jun 2013
• Top-secret Prism program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Apple and Facebook
• Companies deny any knowledge of program in operation since 2007
• Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks
Lynne Stewart Must Be Released Now
Alan Maass – Socialist Worker,
10 Jun 2013
Radical civil liberties lawyer Lynne Stewart, 73 years old, and her supporters are continuing their fight to win her immediate release so she can be treated for stage four cancer at a state-of-the-art medical facility.
→ read full articleTears in Taksim Square
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
For the protesters of Taksim square.
→ read full article(Castellano) Presidente Maduro Lamenta Que Colombia Pretenda Unirse a la OTAN
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
10 Jun 2013
El jefe del Estado venezolano reiteró que es una amenaza para la paz de la región, la pretensión del Gobierno colombiano de unirse a la Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte (OTAN). Hizo un llamado a debatir en la región en torno al papel de los militares en Suramérica.
→ read full articleAnonymous Just Leaked a Trove of NSA Documents
Chris Mills, Gizmodo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
One of the key things Anonymous has highlighted from the documents is the existence of an “intelligence-sharing network” that shares data gleaned from PRISM with “intelligence partners” around the world.
→ read full article(Português) Brasil, Mercosul e a Moral Seletiva nos Negócios com Israel
Maren Mantovani – Carta Maior,
10 Jun 2013
A relação comercial atual do Mercosul com Israel viola o direito comercial, os direitos humanos, os estatutos e as práticas do bloco sul-americano, compromissos políticos do Brasil com o povo palestino e tem prejudicado as relações com outros parceiros comerciais. Além de tudo isso, Israel viola as disposições do próprio Tratado de Livre Comércio, exportando ilegalmente os produtos dos assentamentos. O que é preciso para simplesmente tratar Israel como se trataria qualquer outro país?
→ read full articleDead Wrong: How Psychiatric Drugs Can Kill Your Child
Citizens Commission on Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Behind the grim statistics of deaths, suicides, birth defects and serious adverse reactions is the human face of this global drugging epidemic—the personal stories of loss and courage of those who paid the real price. Psychiatrists claim their drugs are safe for children?
→ read full articleSyria – Israel Is Losing the Battle
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Sadly enough, it isn’t The Guardian or The New York Times that is there to reveal the latest development in Syria and expose Israeli lethal miscalculations. It is actually a ‘Zionist’ Israeli patriotic outlet that is providing the good.
→ read full article(Italiano) Esercitazioni di Guerra nell’Isola dei Droni
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Pericolo droni anche per l’aeroporto di Comiso (Ragusa), l’ex base missilistica nucleare Nato riconvertita in scalo passeggeri ma non ancora entrato in funzione. Ancora peggio per l’aeroporto di Catania-Fontanarossa, il terzo più grande in Italia come volume-passeggeri. Qui le “restrizioni” e i “ritardi” generati dai droni sono sempre più pesanti e frequenti.
→ read full articleDaughter of Mossad Chief: I Refuse to Enlist in the Israeli Military
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
First Prison Sentence: 22 Sep-10 Oct, 2008 (18 days)
Second Prison Sentence: 12-24 Oct, 2008 (10 days)
Omer Goldman, has had to confront the values of her own family. She is the daughter of the former deputy head of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service and who is still considered one of the most powerful men in the Israeli security system.
How Nuts is This?
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is preparing to issue a “License” for military bombing of radiation contaminated bases in Hawaii and elsewhere. The major public health danger of DU radiation is inhalation of small alpha particles. Hawaii retired Army MD and MPH Dr. Lorrin W. Pang said “alpha particle emitters within your body is the most deadly form of radiation of all. It will mutate your DNA more than any other type of radiation.” DU has been linked to a wide range of health problems, including certain cancers.
→ read full articleWar Dialogue
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
3 June 2013 – In the last two weeks there have been articles on Syria, first by TRANSCEND Media Service editor Antonio C. S. Rosa and then by Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire. Both excellent articles, where we learnt a lot about the suffering of millions of Syrians. However, I’d just like add one detail: “Weapons and Money have No Political Colour.” This means mixing the subject of War and Peace with Right or Left politics, is an utter waste of time.
→ read full articleShould Memorial Day Include Commemoration of Thoreau?
Juan Cole, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Thoreau was saying that in times of an unjust law and an unjust war, honorable persons will likely be in jail. Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” went on to influence Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King (which is how we got the Civil Rights movement and an end to Jim Crow segregation.)
→ read full article(Castellano) Los Movimientos Sociales Latinoamericanos y la Alternativa
Guillermo Almeyra – Centre Tricontinental-CETRI,
3 Jun 2013
El repudio a la putrefacción de los partidos e instituciones políticas capitalistas ha dado pie a un reflejo negativo y primitivo, el llamado “apoliticismo” neoanárquico (los anarquistas verdaderos, en España, por ejemplo, eran políticos, defendían la República, eran antifranquistas e integrantes de una izquierda plural y le daban gran importancia al estudio, a la teoría y a la solidaridad de clase en el terreno nacional e internacional).
→ read full article(Italiano) La Domanda di Yara
Marinella Correggia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Ma non avrei notato Yara – che non avevo mai visto prima – se non fosse stato per una sua domanda, forse era retorica o forse un po’ provocatoria. Aveva alzato la mano e aveva chiesto: “Arrivano diverse delegazioni internazionali, qui. Ma mi pare che al ritorno nei vostri paesi, a livello di informazione sulla Siria non cambi nulla. Come mai secondo voi?”.
→ read full articleBad News
TMS editor,
3 Jun 2013
A man walks into a bar and asks for six shots of vodka. The bartender says, “Six shots? What’s wrong?”
→ read full articleTop 1% Now Controls 39% of World’s Wealth
Robert Frank, CNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
The world’s total private wealth grew 7.8 percent last year to $135 trillion, according to Global Wealth report. The top 1 percent controls $52.8 trillion, and those worth $5 million or more control nearly a quarter of the world’s wealth. That concentration is likely to increase in the coming years as the wealth of the wealthy grows faster than overall global wealth.
→ read full article“The True Story of the Bilderberg Group” And What They May Be Planning Now
Stephen Lendman – Global Research,
3 Jun 2013
A Review of Daniel Estulin’s Book – For over 14 years, Daniel Estulin has investigated and researched the Bilderberg Group’s far-reaching influence on business and finance, global politics, war and peace, and control of the world’s resources and its money.
→ read full articleLaw and Order vs. Lore and Orders
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Imagining Otherwise the Forceful Engagement of Singularity with Plurality – Produced in a period when the forces of the international community are complicit in bloody fantasies in Syria.
→ read full articleBeyond Militarism and War toward a Nonviolent World
Mairead Maguire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Many acknowledge the corporate media military industrial complex is now so much in control that it seems a colossal task to try to change it; but try we must if there is to be a future for our children. We are becoming more enlightened; as we abolished slavery so too we can abolish armies and base our human security not on force, or threat of force, but on compassion, human rights and international law.
→ read full articleMaking Sense of Syria
Father Dave Smith – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
So the world’s power-brokers play their games (and I hear on the news tonight that both Britain and France are now champing at the bit to pour more ammunition into the fray) while the Syrian people pay the price with their blood. The big oil and arms manufacturers are (quite literally) making a killing in Syria. It is entirely demonic! We don’t see this side of the story, of course. Indeed, we don’t see much of the story at all in this country. It seems that all ‘Western’ media have been extracted from Damascus (with the curious exception of CNN)!
→ read full articleHammond, Manning, Assange and Obama’s Sledgehammer against Dissent
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
3 Jun 2013
One cyberactivist’s federal case wrapped up this week, and another’s is set to begin. While these two young men, Jeremy Hammond and Bradley Manning, are the two who were charged, it is the growing menace of government and corporate secrecy that should be on trial. The job of journalists is to hold those in power accountable. Our job is to be the fourth estate, not “for the state.” Let us be.
→ read full articleResponding to the Syrian Challenge
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
My essential argument is that until the parties engaged in hostilities on both sides recognize their inability to achieve a political victory by way of the battlefield, and external actors acquiesce in this recognition, there can only take place an unproductive and wrongheaded coercive diplomacy of partisanship, supporting the claims of the anti-Assad side.
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Ave Maria (Music Video of the Week)
Joshua Bell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Often referred to as the “poet of the violin,” Joshua Bell is one of the world’s most celebrated violinists. He continues to enchant audiences with his breathtaking virtuosity, tone of sheer beauty, and charismatic stage presence.
→ read full articleRival Honduras Gangs Declare Truce
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Two of the most violent gangs apologise for their crimes and seek talks with the government on rehabilitation and jobs under a church-brokered drive to stem a tide of violence that has turned Honduras into the world’s most murderous country.
→ read full articleMyanmar: Sectarian Strife and Universal Compassion
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
The current tensions with the Muslim community are an important challenge. Will Buddhist groups within Myanmar and its neighbours be able to respond creatively to this wave of violence?
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