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Washington Is Escalating the Orchestrated Ukrainian “Crisis” to War
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
There we have it again: Russian Aggression. Repeat it enough and it becomes real.
→ read full article(Português) Voo MH-17: Um “Atentado” Suspeito Demais
Paul Craig Roberts – Outras Palavras,
21 Jul 2014
Tentativa de culpar Rússia sem evidências sugere o pior: isolados e em declínio, EUA tentariam manter supremacia por meio de provocação e guerra permanentes.
→ read full articleFacts Needed on Malaysian Plane Shoot-Down
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
21 Jul 2014
As usual, the mainstream U.S. media is rushing to judgment over the crash of a Malaysian airliner in war-torn eastern Ukraine, but the history of U.S. government’s deceptions might be reason to pause and let a careful investigation uncover the facts, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
→ read full articleThe Political Objective and Strategic Goal of Nonviolent Actions
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Whether or not activists achieve their political objective is strategically irrelevant. This is because an effective nonviolent action is designed to achieve its strategic goal, irrespective of the response of opponents or the authorities to the political objective of the action. Whether or not activists achieve their strategic goal, however, is always strategically determinative.
→ read full articleMH17: World See Tragedy, US Sees “Game Changer”
Tony Cartalucci, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
NATO needed a “game changer,” because it was playing a game it was clearly losing. The dubious circumstances surrounding the downing of MH17 – occurring just as Kiev’s forces were deteriorating across the country and additional US sanctions against Russia fell flat – is more than a mere coincidence.
→ read full articleGaza: Médecins Sans Frontières Official Likens Job to ‘Patching Up Torture Victims in an Open-Air Prison’
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
21 Jul 2014
Comments by Senior Médecins Sans Frontières Official Expose Ethical Dilemma of Humanitarian Work in Conflict Zones.
→ read full articleSanctions and Airliners
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Before you say Washington is too sophisticated to mistake one airliner for another, keep in mind that when Washington shot down an Iranian airliner over Iranian air space, the US Navy claimed that it thought the 290 civilians that it murdered were in an Iranian fighter jet, a F-14 Tomcat fighter, a US-made fighter that was a mainstay of the US Navy.
→ read full article30th Anniversary! Hilo Bay Nuclear Warship Blockade (Hawai’i)
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
For three years the Navy repeatedly violated the law. In June of 1984 peace activists announced a nonviolent blockade of the next nuclear ship visiting Hilo. Three people entered the water and held their hands up in a symbolic message to the ship –”STOP.” Jim Snyder, Warren Wineman and Jim Albertini were imprisoned and/or fined for their nonviolent protest.
→ read full articleSri Lanka’s Downward Spiral
Taylor Dibbert – Foreign Policy,
21 Jul 2014
Sometimes it takes time, but the truth has a way of finding people. Let’s hope it finds President Mahinda Rajapaksa — sooner rather than later.
→ read full articleThe Oxymoron of Peace
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Austerity is for losers. There’s always money to wage war and build weapons, indeed, to continue developing weapons, generation after generation after generation. The contractors are adept at playing the game. Jobs link arms with fear and patriotism and the next war is always inevitable.
→ read full articleWhat Is Israel’s End Game in Gaza?
Dennis Kucinich – Consortium News,
21 Jul 2014
Israel can kill, injure, humiliate Palestinians at will, with impunity, which is exactly what gave rise to Hamas and strengthens Hamas’ hold in Gaza, even as the IDF advances… Since the U.S. is helping to pay Israel’s bills, we cannot avoid the consequences of paying the price for Israel’s actions against the Palestinians.
→ read full articleParis’s Return to Public Water Supplies Makes Waves beyond France
Geert De Clercq, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Nearly five years after Paris took the management of its water supply back into its own hands, the move is inspiring other cities at home and abroad and hurting profits at private water firms Veolia and Suez Environnement.
→ read full article(Castellano) Lo que la independencia de Cataluña representa y lo que debemos aprender de ella
Daniel Marty, TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
¿quién se beneficia de la independencia política y económica? ¿Será el pueblo en general o una pequeña élite? ¿será la independencia del Estado de Cataluña otorgada y protegida? ¿quién se beneficia de la división, no solamente de los catalanes, pero de los españoles también?
→ read full articleWhy Are Most Human Beings So Powerless?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Unless someone lives in a cave secluded from all news, the evidence that human beings are in deep trouble – with violence in its many forms intruding on all aspects of our lives and threatening our very existence – is readily available.
→ read full articleNSA-Intercepted Data of Innocent Bystanders Far Outnumber Targeted Names
Barton Gellman, Julie Tate and Ashkan Soltani – The Washington Post,
14 Jul 2014
Files provided by Snowden show extent to which ordinary Web users are caught in the net.
→ read full articleFacts All US Citizens Need to Know About Israel and Palestine
Robert Barsocchini – Washington’s Blog,
14 Jul 2014
Germany, Japan, and South Africa went from being the most reviled countries on Earth to being some of the most admired. Maybe Israel could undergo the same transformation, but not unless we, US citizens, help by ceasing to enable Israeli terrorism and war crimes by illegally supporting them.
→ read full articleThe True Gaza Back-Story That the Israelis Aren’t Telling This Week
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
14 Jul 2014
OK, so by this afternoon [9 Jul 2014], the exchange rate of death in two days was 40-0 in favour of Israel. But now for the Gaza story you won’t be hearing from anyone else in the next few hours. It’s about land.
→ read full articleOn US TV, Israel Is ‘Striking Back’
Peter Hart – Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting,
7 Jul 2014
This disparity is meaningful. The term “retaliation” suggests a defensive stance undertaken in response to someone else’s aggression. It also lays responsibility for the cycle of violence at the doorstep of the party being “retaliated” against, since they presumably initiated the conflict.
→ read full articleClimate Refugees: An Entire Island Nation Is Preparing to Evacuate to Fiji Before They Sink Into the Pacific
Gwynn Guilford, Quartz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
The seas around Kiribati’s 32 atolls are rising 1.2 centimeters a year—about four times faster than the global average—thanks to the flux of ocean currents. Some residents expect the sea to subsume their homes within 20 or 30 years.
→ read full articleThe Great Human Delusion: All Parents Love Their Children
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Evolution’s great trick was to connect reproduction with intense but transitory sexual pleasure, not love. Many children are conceived outside the loving long-term relationship necessary to nurture a child and even those children who are conceived within this framework will routinely suffer parental violence.
→ read full articleCourt Gave NSA Broad Leeway in Surveillance, Documents Show
Ellen Nakashima and Barton Gellman – The Washington Post,
7 Jul 2014
Virtually no foreign government is off-limits for the National Security Agency, which has been authorized to intercept information “concerning” all but four [anglo] countries, according to top-secret documents: Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
→ read full article(Português) E Lenin Tinha Razão: A Grande Guerra Interimperialista
Emir Sader – Carta Maior,
7 Jul 2014
Com a segunda guerra – na realidade o segundo round de uma mesma guerra, com as mesmas características e um intervalo de poucos anos – e a segunda derrota do bloco formado pela Alemanha, a Itália e o Japão – se abria o caminho para a hegemonia imperial norteamericana.
→ read full articleOAS Declares Solidarity with Argentina in U.S. Hedge Fund Dispute
Ewan Robertson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
4th July 2014 – The Organization of American States has declared its solidarity with Argentina in its debt repayment dispute with a U.S.-based hedge fund. The only countries in the hemisphere to not support the resolution were the United States and Canada.
→ read full article7 Weird Things Money Does to Your Brain
Lynn Stuart Parramore – AlterNet,
7 Jul 2014
Money is packed with meaning, and it impacts our personalities, our relationships, and how we think. As you might imagine, a lot of stuff is going on in our brains when we think about money, and some of it is surprising.
→ read full articleWashington’s War Crimes Spread from Africa and the Middle East to Ukraine
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
A person might think that revulsion in “the world community” against Washington’s wanton slaughter of civilians in eight countries would have led to War Crimes Tribunal warrants issued for the arrest of presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama and many officials in their regimes… Putin has done what he can to avoid conflict. Now he needs to do the right thing, as he did in Georgia and Crimea.
→ read full articleAbsolutely Nothing: A Veteran’s Savage Indictment of the Iraq War
Jim Wright, Americans Against the Tea Party – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
The same old motley cast of characters, the warhawks and the chickenhawks and the billionaires and the simple-minded saber-rattlers and the same old hate-filled pundits, they just can’t wait to jump back into Iraq…. Why? Is it to end terrorism? Is it to enforce peace at the muzzle of a gun? Is it it to make defense contractors rich? Is it for jobs? Or is it for magic flying bunnies who shoot rainbows and cheap gasoline out of their … to the sound of Yankee Doodle Dandy?
→ read full articleThe World is NOT a U.S. Colony!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
In a host of countries around the world the U.S. portrays itself as “the good guy” instead of the problem. It’s a classic colonial attitude. The U.S. must stop intervening in the internal and domestic affairs of independent nations all over the world, including the U.S. occupied Kingdom of Hawai`i.
→ read full articleJailing of Al-Jazeera Journalists: A Proxy in the War between Qatar and Saudi Arabia
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
7 Jul 2014
Must journalists endure the threat of imprisonment as well as the threat of death or serious injury? It is not just the outrageous, unfair, trumped-up crudity of the charges against the three Al Jazeera journalists sentenced to years of imprisonment in Cairo.
→ read full articleClimate Change Fact Sheet
Earth Policy Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
COAL, mainly used for electricity generation, accounts for 44 percent of global fossil-fuel-related CO2 emissions.
OIL, used primarily for transportation, accounts for 36 percent of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels.
NATURAL GAS, used for electricity and heating, accounts for the remaining 20 percent of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning.
Japan Announces a Military Shift to Thwart China
Martin Fackler and David E. Sanger – The New York Times,
7 Jul 2014
Japan’s prime minister announced a reinterpretation of the country’s pacifist Constitution on Tuesday [1 Jul 2014], freeing its military for the first time in over 60 years to play a more assertive role in the increasingly tense region.
→ read full articleThe Risk of a Ukraine Bloodbath
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
7 Jul 2014
Pressured by neocons and the mainstream U.S. media, the Obama administration is charting a dangerous course by seeking a military solution to Ukraine’s political crisis and possibly provoking Moscow to intervene to protect ethnic Russians.
→ read full articleMy Thoughts on Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire’s Speech on 6th June, 2014 in Sarajevo
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
As much as I agree with Mairead Maguire’s emphatic call for a world without weapons and admire her for making this call, I feel that her suggestions for action are insufficient. It is not enough to shout in all directions “I don’t want a militarized world”! whilst the games we buy for our children and grandchildren, the films they watch on television, the teaching at schools of Nationalism, Patriotism, Religious superiority, etc, etc., are all promoting violence and a militarized world.
→ read full article(Português) Ucrânia e Síria: Eleições de Destruição em Massa
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Eleições avançam na Ucrânia, obstruídas na Síria, para que assassinatos em massa continuem. O armamento ocidental da democracia.
→ read full articleThe Journey to Self-Awareness
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
What causes this damage? Terror. And what makes a mind react with terror thus disrupting all other functions simultaneously? Violence. And particularly the unrelenting onslaught of ‘invisible’ violence and ‘utterly invisible’ violence inflicted on children throughout their childhood.
→ read full articleChina’s Subversive Propaganda War against the Dalai Lama
Gerardo E. Martinez-Solanas – Open Democracy,
30 Jun 2014
The Chinese government is engaged in an intense propaganda war to disrupt or prevent the Dalai Lama’s visits to every country he travels to.
→ read full articleMass Murderers Brazenly Hold Conference, Discuss Tools of Trade
David Swanson - Reader Supported News,
16 Jun 2014
7 Jun 2014 – A unique conference is planned in Charlottesville, Va., featuring the latest technologies for the practice of large-scale killing. The Daily Progress tells us that, “to allow participants to speak more freely about potentially sensitive topics, the conference is closed to the media and open only to registered participants.”
→ read full articleAn Appeal for More Whistleblowers
Norman Solomon – Consortium News,
16 Jun 2014
As more and more secrecy envelopes the U.S. government – with millions of hidden records concealing both past and present – there is no practical alternative for democracy but to fight back with “unauthorized” disclosures, as Norman Solomon explains in an appeal for more whistleblowers.
→ read full articleThey Knew Our Secrets. One Year Later, We Know Theirs.
American Civil Liberties Union – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
One year ago, the world had never heard of Edward Snowden, and we knew very little about the breathtaking scope of U.S. government surveillance. One year later, we know more than ever before about our government’s mass surveillance apparatus. We now have the power to rein it in.
→ read full article(Português) Flaskô, a Fábrica Brasileira Sob Controle Operário
Paloma Rodrigues, Carta Capital – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Quebrada por patrões, recuperada pelos trabalhadores, indústria reduziu jornada, estabeleceu democracia interna e criou centro cultural. Após onze anos, luta entra em nova fase.
→ read full articleA Message From Edward Snowden, One Year Later
Edward Snowden – American Civil Liberties Union,
9 Jun 2014
4 Jun 2014 – Below is an email ACLU supporters received from Edward Snowden this morning, one year to the day since The Guardian broke the first in a series of revelations exposing the breathtaking scope of U.S. government surveillance.
→ read full articleGrand Geopolitical Project: Russia’s Gazprom Signs Agreement to Abandon the Dollar
Umberto Pascali - Global Research,
9 Jun 2014
Anglo-American Dominance Coming to an End – On June 6, 2014 Russia announced what many were expecting since the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis: Russian main energy company, Gazprom, has “signed agreements with its consumers” [actually signed and not just discussed] to switch from Dollars to Euros “for payments under contracts”.
→ read full articleThe Pall of Silence around Myanmar’s Fictitious Democracy
Giacomo Tognini – The Jakarta Globe,
9 Jun 2014
The Rohingya are a mainly Sunni Muslim ethnic group that primarily reside in Rakhine, an area they have inhabited for centuries. According to the Myanmar government’s narrative, the roughly one-million-strong group are illegal Bengali immigrants from Bangladesh.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden: Breaking Law Was Only Option, Says Whistleblower
Tom McCarthy – The Guardian,
2 Jun 2014
One year after revealing himself as the source of the biggest intelligence leak in US history, Edward Snowden appeared in a long network television interview on Wednesday [28 May 2013] to describe himself as an American patriot and to make the case that his disclosures were motivated by a desire to help the country.
→ read full articleChlorine in Your Chicken: Why Poultry Is More Dangerous Than Ever
Tracie McMillan, OnEarth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Whichever part of the bird she happened to be packing on a given shift, the smell was as constant as it was noxious: a combination of raw poultry and chlorine, the latter emanating from the pathogen-killing chemical bath that the carcasses—often contaminated with fecal matter—would receive during processing.
→ read full articleUkraine & Syria: Elections of Mass Destruction
Tony Cartalucci, NEO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Elections pushed ahead in Ukraine, obstructed in Syria, so mass murder can continue. The West’s weaponization of democracy.
→ read full articleWhy Boycotting Israel Is So Important and Necessary
Stuart Littlewood – Dissident Voice,
2 Jun 2014
DePaul students don’t want their tuition dollars invested in weapons manufacturers who supply the Israeli government, army and prison services.
→ read full articleNYT’s One-Sided Ukraine Narrative
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
2 Jun 2014
The U.S. press coverage of the Ukraine crisis has been stunningly biased and one-sided, placing virtually all the blame on Russian President Putin. One of the worst offenders in this journalistic travesty has been the New York Times.
→ read full article“Beacon of Freedom & American Exceptionalism?”
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
The U.S. has between 800-1000 military bases around the world in 150 countries. Since WWII: has used military force 120 times; has tried to overthrow governments of 50 countries and grossly interfered in the elections of 30 others; has bombed civilian populations in 30 countries including the use of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. (Source: www.uslaboragainstwar.org) And don’t forget the U.S. illegal overthrow and continuing illegal occupation of the Nation of Hawai’i.
→ read full article(Português) BRICS: Uma Nova Arquitetura de Finanças e Desenvolvimento
José Carlos Peliano – Carta Maior,
2 Jun 2014
Os BRICS iniciaram tratativas para a criação de alternativas ao FMI e ao Banco Mundial, instituições dominadas hoje pelos EUA e pela União Europeia.
→ read full articleThe Social Cost of GMOs
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
When Purdue University plant pathologist and soil microbiologist Don Huber pointed out unintended consequences of GMOs, other scientists did not support him because their careers are dependent on research grants from agribusiness. Monsanto controls the research on its own products.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Cecily McMillan
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
It is apparent that our strategy to remake society in accord with principles of justice and love must include recognition of the fact that the legal system is part of what must be removed. More sophisticated methods for dealing with conflict and violence – ranging from listening and needs-based processes to truth and reconciliation commissions as well as nonviolent action – have long existed.
→ read full articleWashington Post Seeks US-Patrolled ‘Safe Zone’ in Syria
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
26 May 2014
Neocons never blush at their own hypocrisies, demanding Russia respect international law and do nothing to protect eastern Ukrainians, while demanding President Obama ignore international law and create a terrorist/rebel “safe zone” in Syria, writes ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
→ read full articleKidnapped Girls Become Tools of U.S. Imperial Policy in Africa
Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
The “humanitarian” U.S. military occupation of Africa has been very successful, thus far. Imagine: the superpower that financed the genocide of six million in Congo, claims to be a defender of teenage girls and human rights on the continent.
→ read full articleReasons for Intellectual Conformity
Lawrence Davidson – Consortium News,
26 May 2014
Indeed, from a historical perspective most people of high intellect have sought to serve power and not critique or question it. This is quite in line with the fact that most non-intellectuals accept the word of those in power as authoritative and true.
→ read full article(Português) A saída limpa…da Europa
Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Carta Maior,
26 May 2014
Portugal arranjará um lugarzito na soleira da porta da Europa, um país sem-abrigo por onde passarão regularmente os carrinhos da sopa humanitária.
→ read full articleHuman Intelligence or Human Awareness?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
The Self-aware human being is intelligent because their mind is integrated. In contrast, an ‘intelligent’ individual who is unSelf-aware, because their mind is disintegrated, might engage in activities that are destructive of our species and the planet. I am sure that you can think of many examples.
→ read full articleEU Court Backs ‘Right to Be Forgotten’: Google Must Amend Results on Request
Alan Travis and Charles Arthur – The Guardian,
19 May 2014
Individuals have right to control their data and can ask search engines to remove results, says European court.
→ read full article(Português) Leia com exclusividade mais trechos do livro de Glenn Greenwald
Gilberto Scofield – O Globo,
19 May 2014
Na próxima terça-feira [13 maio 2014], o lançamento de um dos livros mais esperados do ano: “Sem lugar para se esconder”, do ex-advogado e jornalista americano Glenn Greenwald, que conta a histórica denúncia sobre como a Agência de Segurança Nacional americana (NSA) espionava de cidadãos e instituições americanas a governos e empresas de outros países.
→ read full article
Hungarian Dance No. 5 (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Martynas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Virtuoso Martynas on Acordeon – Composition of Johannes Brahms – Martynas Levickis, 24, is one of the brightest young musicians from Lithuania. He has received over 30 prizes and awards.
→ read full article(Português) O determinismo biológico e os interesses do capital
Leandro Módolo P. - Carta Maior,
19 May 2014
De Gobineau e sua teoria eugênica à Spencer e as corridas coloniais, de Charles Davenport e Harry Laughlin e as políticas de esterilização estadunidense à Eugen Fischer e Alfred Ploetz e a Lei de Proteção à Saúde Hereditária do Povo Alemão, ao menos a história ocidental moderna está recheada de ‘cientistas’ que advogaram causas naturais para diferenças e problemas sociais.
→ read full articleQatar Promises to Reform Labour Laws after Outcry over ‘World Cup Slaves’
Ian Black, Owen Gibson and Robert Booth – The Guardian,
19 May 2014
Officials said they would replace the country’s “kafala” sponsorship system, which tethers workers to a single employer, who can therefore treat his workforce with impunity, pending the approval of a draft law.
→ read full articleMichael Sam Is First Openly Gay NFL Player as St Louis Rams Draft Pick
Martin Pengelly – The Guardian,
12 May 2014
Michael Sam, the college defensive end who made headlines earlier this year by coming out, is set to become the first openly gay player to play in the National Football League. Sam was picked in Saturday’s [10 May 2014] final round of the NFL Draft, by the St Louis Rams.
→ read full articleHuman Emotions: Genetically Programmed or Socially Learned?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
It is easy to fall into the trap of assuming that each human being has a more or less identical range of emotions. This is not so. The outcome for each individual is based on the unique genetic potential of that individual and, more importantly, the social terrorisation experience of that individual within its particular culture, community and family.
→ read full article(Português) Augusto Boal e o Teatro do Oprimido: “Vários outros mundos são possíveis”.
Léa Maria Aarão Reis - Carta Maior,
12 May 2014
O Teatro do Oprimido alia teatro e ação social, prepara o ator com esse viés e busca permanentemente a transformação da realidade através do diálogo.
→ read full articleChina, Iran Say They’re ‘Strategic Partners’ as U.S. Watches Warily
Stuart Leavenworth – The Charlotte Observer,
12 May 2014
6 May 2014 – China and Iran announced this week that they’re deepening their military ties, with Tehran going so far as to claim that China now sees Iran as a “strategic partner.”
→ read full articleKagame: Murderer of Millions in Congo and Rwanda
Glen Ford – Black Agenda Report,
12 May 2014
Notables from around the globe pay homage to Rwandan President Paul Kagame as if he were the savior of Africa. “For 20 years, Kagame has posed as the soldier who stopped the Rwandan genocide, when all evidence and logic point to him as the main perpetrator of the crime.”
→ read full articleFollow the Honey: 7 Ways Pesticide Companies Are Spinning the Bee Crisis
Michele Simon, Friends of the Earth - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
As my new report with Friends of the Earth details, three of the leading pesticide corporations — Bayer, Syngenta, and Monsanto — are engaged in a massive public relations disinformation campaign to distract the public and policymakers from thinking that pesticides might have something to do with bee death and destruction.
→ read full articleGangster State America – Where Is America’s Democracy?
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Government is used to impose agendas that result from the symbiotic relationship between the neoconservative ideology of US world hegemony and the economic interests of powerful private interest groups, such as Wall Street, the military/security complex, the Israel Lobby, agribusiness, and extractive industries (energy, mining, and timber).
→ read full articleTwisting Putin’s Words on Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
5 May 2014
Anti-Russian bias pervades the mainstream U.S. media in the Ukraine crisis, reflected in word choices – “pro-democracy” for U.S.-favored protesters in Kiev, “terrorists” for disfavored eastern Ukrainians – but also in how the narrative is shaped by false summaries.
→ read full articleTolstoy’s Remarkable Manifesto on Christian Anarchy and Pacifism
Robert Higgs – The Beacon,
5 May 2014
Tolstoy is one of the most important Christian anarchists in history, yet his views on Christianity were anything but typical. For him, Christianity was above all a commitment to love others as one’s self and to abstain from the use of force and violence, even in resistance to evil or in self-defense. Thus, as a Christian anarchist, he comes close to occupying a class of his own.
→ read full articleFree the NATO 3!
Socialist Equality Party – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
1 May 2014 – Jail terms imposed on three young men arrested at an anti-NATO protest in 2012. Last week, a Chicago judge sentenced Brian Church, 22, to five years in prison, Brent Betterly, 26, to six years, and Jared Chase, 28, to eight years. The vindictive prosecution of the three individuals with anarchist views exposes the repression and intimidation of all political opposition to the policies of the ruling class.
→ read full articleHow Mandela and S. Africa Were Freed
Danny Schechter – Consortium News,
5 May 2014
History often recounts events through the tales of “great men,” but that is rarely the complete story. South Africa’s overturning of white supremacy is a case in point, not just the personal triumph of Nelson Mandela but the victory of a global movement.
→ read full article(Português) Brasil: Em guerra contra a Nestlé
Marina Almeida, Carta Maior – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
Grupo de moradores e Ministério Público querem proteger o Parque das Águas de São Lourenço, em Minas Gerais, da exploração da multinacional.
→ read full articleA People’s War in East Ukraine
Daniel Patrick Welch – Consortium News,
5 May 2014
Ukraine’s Western-backed coup regime in Kiev has launched an offensive against ethnic Russians in the east while a pro-regime mob used fire to kill some 31 anti-regime protesters in Odessa. Virtually all U.S. pundits favor the coup regime. Here is a different view of the conflict.
→ read full articleTolerating Israel’s Land Grabs
Lawrence Davidson – Consortium News,
28 Apr 2014
Secretary of State John Kerry’s Israeli-Palestinian peace talks have reached their predictable collapse, but the U.S. news media still shies away from blaming Israeli intransigence and expansionism – nor advocating stern action against the land grabs.
→ read full articleBeneath the Ukraine Crisis: Shale Gas
Nat Parry – Consortium News,
28 Apr 2014
Behind the geopolitics pitting Russia against the West – and the ethnic tensions tearing Ukraine east and west – another backdrop for understanding this deepening conflict is the big-money competition for Ukraine’s oil and natural gas.
→ read full articleYet another Betrayal of the Palestinians
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
28 Apr 2014
25 April 2014 – Dead in the water. Just as the entire world predicted – with the exception of Messrs Barack Obama and John Kerry and, I suppose, our favourite “peace” envoy Tony Blair – the whole fandango of an Israeli-Palestinian “peace” has collapsed again.
→ read full articleSole US Nuclear Weapons Waste Storage Site Still Closed and Hot
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
28 Apr 2014
Nobody’s ever tried to fix an underground radiation accident before. More than two months after plutonium and americium leaked from the supposedly leak-proof underground nuclear weapons waste storage facility in New Mexico, the U.S. Department of Energy still does not know what caused the leak almost half a mile underground.
→ read full article(Português) Uruguai: o país da maconha estatal não presenteia o narcotráfico
Aram Aharonian – Carta Maior,
28 Apr 2014
O Uruguai, um pequeno país que quase não é visto no mapa, é o primeiro país do mundo a legalizar a maconha e a assumir o controle de todo o processo de produção e venda da erva. O governo de José Pepe Mujica recentemente também legalizou o aborto e a Lei do Matrimônio Igualitário, que permite a união de casais homossexuais.
→ read full articleAnswer Offered By Seymour Hersh Gets Little Public Attention
William Boardman ¬– Reader Supported News,
21 Apr 2014
Benghazi Mystery Explained!?! – Report from London links CIA Covert Op with Turkey, Syria
→ read full articleForgiveness is Dysfunctional
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2014
Certain religious traditions, including Christianity, emphasise the importance of forgiveness. I want to explain why forgiveness is misconceived and, therefore, a bad idea. And why there are important psychological reasons for this.
→ read full articleThe 1915 Armenian Genocide: Finding a Fit Testament to a Timeless Crime
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
7 Apr 2014
As the last survivors die out, academics must consider how best to create a lasting memorial to the 1.5 million who were murdered.
→ read full articleDr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Why He Died & Why It Matters!
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the apostle of non-violence, was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. Few people remember him for his work for economic justice and an end to the U.S. war in Vietnam. Very few people realize that a jury in the wrongful death suit brought by the King family found that Dr. King’s death was “an act of State.”
→ read full articleSri Lanka Retaliates Against UN Call for War Crimes Investigation – List Tamil Groups as Terrorists
World News Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Chief among them is Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam, which held internationally supervised elections among Tamils around the world to elect over 120 Members of Parliament and is leading a campaign for non-violent and democratic approach to solve Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict.
→ read full articleSinister Efforts to Minimise Japanese War Crimes and Portray the Empire As a Victim Must Be Exposed
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
7 Apr 2014
The “comfort women”, the Japanese military’s repulsive euphemism for the victims they turned upon with such sexual sadism, were gang-raped, used as prostitutes and often butchered by Japanese soldiers during their occupation of Korea and China in the late 1930s. These women – the few ageing survivors and the many dead – are a symbol of Japan’s wartime disgrace.
→ read full article‘Cuban Twitter’ Heads to Hearings in Congress
Jack Gillum, Desmond Butler and Alberto Arce, Associated Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
4 Apr 2014 – The head of the U.S. government agency that secretly created a “Cuban Twitter” communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba is expected to testify next week before a senator who thinks the whole idea was “dumb, dumb, dumb.”
→ read full articleThe Struggle for Humanity
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Insanity is widely understood to refer to a state of mind that prevents normal perception, behaviour or social interaction; it describes someone who is considered to be seriously mentally ill. And this is an accurate description of the global elite and those who serve it whether they be in political, business, legal, psychiatric, corporate media, academic or other circles.
→ read full articlePrison of the Past: A Reporter Revisits His ‘Shameful’ Coverage of Rwanda
Bartholomäus Grill – Der Spiegel,
7 Apr 2014
Twenty years ago on April 6, the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda began. At the time, many Western reporters played it down as “ethnic warfare,” including Bartholomäus Grill, now a correspondent for SPIEGEL. He looks back with shame.
→ read full articleThe End of the Capitalist Era, and What Comes Next
Jeremy Rifkin - Reader Supported News,
7 Apr 2014
The capitalist era is passing… not quickly, but inevitably. A new economic paradigm — the Collaborative Commons — is rising in its wake. We are already witnessing the emergence of a hybrid economy, part capitalist market and part Collaborative Commons. The two economic systems often work in tandem and sometimes compete.
→ read full articleThe WIPP-Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Problem, and What It Means for Defense Nuclear Waste Disposal
Robert Alvarez – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
31 Mar 2014
“It’s a surprise when there are no surprises,” a cleanup worker told me a few years ago at the Hanford site in Washington state, once the world’s largest producer of plutonium for nuclear weapons and now home to a massive effort to stop leaking nuclear waste tanks from poisoning the Columbia River.
→ read full articleUkraine’s Inconvenient Neo-Nazis
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
31 Mar 2014
When Ukrainian neo-Nazis – infuriated over the killing of an ultranationalist leader – surrounded the Parliament in Kiev, the incident presented a problem for the U.S. news media which has been trying to airbrush the neo-Nazis out of the Ukraine narrative.
→ read full articleThe Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism
Robert Jensen – The Texas Observer,
31 Mar 2014
Barking dogs and sinking ships: Journalism’s search for metaphor and meaning.
→ read full article(Português) Otan na Ucrânia é o mesmo que mísseis em Cuba, diz Moniz Bandeira
Marco Aurélio Weissheimer – Carta Maior,
31 Mar 2014
Em entrevista à Carta Maior, o historiador Moniz Bandeira fala sobre a crise na Ucrânia, suas implicações geopolíticas e possibilidades de escalada.
→ read full article(Português) O Jornalismo de Hoje: Uma Escolha Entre o Mercado e as Pessoas
Roberto Savio – Carta Maior,
31 Mar 2014
O verdadeiro problema é que o jornalismo se converteu em tão somente um espelho de nosso tempo, abdicando de qualquer função social, para limitar-se a ser um abastecedor da informação como uma mercadoria. Nossos temos estão marcados pelo neoliberalismo, e vícios como a cobiça e o individualismo se transformaram em virtudes exaltadas por Hollywood e pela homogeneização dos meios de comunicação.
→ read full articleWhat Do Children Need?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Apart from having its physical needs met, the primary needs of children are for stimulus and attention. The most important form of attention that anyone, including a child, requires is listening. Listening, in this context, has a precise meaning and it is invariably done extremely badly, particularly by parents in relation to their own children.
→ read full articleMauna Kea Park & Hawaii Island: Contaminated with Military Radiation
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Regardless of who is liable –federal, state, and/or county governments, there are potentially serious health and safety concerns for residents and visitors with the increased use of Saddle Road, frequent strong winds and occasional flash flooding in the area, and military bombing of a base known to be contaminated with depleted uranium and other military toxins.
→ read full articleIsrael Guilty of Ethnic Cleansing and Apartheid, Says UN Rapporteur
Umberto Bacchi – International Business Time,
24 Mar 2014
21 Mar 2014 – Richard Falk, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, said Israel carried out a “systematic and continued effort to change the ethnic composition of East Jerusalem”.
→ read full articleKenya Legalizes Polygamy without Wife’s Consent
Peter Martell, AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Kenya’s parliament has passed a bill allowing men to marry as many women as they want, prompting a furious backlash from female lawmakers who stormed out, reports said Friday [21 Mar 2014].
→ read full articleHow California Will Use Renewables to Replace Massive Nuclear Plant
Sierra Martinez, Natural Resources Defense Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
California took another major and symbolic step this month [Mar 2014] with its decision to rely significantly on energy efficiency and other clean energy resources to help replace electricity once generated by the San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station serving San Diego and the greater Los Angeles area.
→ read full articleNSA Surveillance Program Reaches ‘Into the Past’ to Retrieve, Replay Phone Calls
Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani – The Washington Post,
24 Mar 2014
The NSA has built a surveillance system capable of recording “100 percent” of a foreign country’s telephone calls according to people with direct knowledge of the effort and documents supplied by former contractor Edward Snowden.
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