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A Showdown for War or Peace
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
11 Nov 2013
In pressing for negotiated settlements to the Iranian nuclear dispute and the Syrian civil war, President Barack Obama is challenging the imposing lobbying, propaganda and financial clout of the new Saudi-Israeli alliance, with the future direction of U.S. foreign policy – and geopolitical stability – at stake.
→ read full articleUS Is a State Sponsor of Terrorism
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
11 Nov 2013
Drone attacks are raw terror tactics that terrorize civilian populations.
→ read full articleMission Accomplished: Peace Is Drone-Bombed
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
It would appear the Empire has succeeded in both preventing peaceful negotiations and continuing the drone bombing that stirs up hatreds and foments that which our mainstream press label as “terrorism,” without including the drone attacks.
→ read full articleThe Roots of the European Court of Human Rights and Democracy
Ersan Sen and Mahmut Can Senyurt – Open Democracy,
11 Nov 2013
Marco Duranti claims that the aims of the founders of the European Court of Human Rights were not democratic ones, and that the ECHR was in fact designed to secure the concept of “property rights” instead of social rights such as “the right to labour and social security” or “the right to health” as set forth under European Convention on Human Rights.
→ read full articleStatement from Edward Snowden
ACLU-American Civil Liberties Union – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
The German magazine Der Spiegel published a statement Sunday [3 Nov 2013] from Edward Snowden that it translated from English to German. Snowden has provided the ACLU with the original English text.
→ read full articleLGBT Americans Need Congressional Protection
US Pres. Barack Obama - Reader Supported News,
11 Nov 2013
Millions of LGBT Americans go to work every day fearing that, without any warning, they could lose their jobs — not because of anything they’ve done, but simply because of who they are. It’s offensive. It’s wrong. And it needs to stop, because in the United States of America, who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense.
→ read full articleThe Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA): When Foreign Investors Sue the State
Martin Khor, Third World Economics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
The investor-state dispute system, whereby foreign investors can sue the host-country government in an international tribunal, is one of the issues being negotiated in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.
→ read full articleMy Promise to Children
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Every day, human adults kill 35,000 of our children. We kill them in wars. We kill them with drones. We kill them in our homes. We also kill children in vast numbers by starving them to death in Africa, Asia and Central/South America because we use military violence to maintain an ‘economic’ system that allocates resources for military weapons, as well as corporate profits for the wealthy, instead of resources for living.
→ read full articleThe Origins and Evolution of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
T Rajamoorthy - Global Research,
11 Nov 2013
THE free trade agreement being negotiated by the regional bloc known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has provoked widespread opposition in the countries involved in its negotiation. Today the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is rightly perceived and condemned as a US-led attempt to penetrate and dominate the economies of the region.
→ read full articleIs The Hague Making a Mockery of Justice so the CIA and MI6 Can Save Face?
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
4 Nov 2013
Investigating an alleged double standard over two prominent Libyans accused of crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleNSA Infiltrates Links to Yahoo, Google Data Centers Worldwide, Snowden Documents Say
Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani – The Washington Post,
4 Nov 2013
30 Oct 2013 – The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials.
→ read full article(Português) A Grécia É um Laboratório para Aplicar as Terapias de Choque, Diz Kouvelakis
Cristina Portella – Carta Maior,
4 Nov 2013
Nenhum país europeu, como a Grécia, teve uma contração de 27% desde o início da atual crise, nem reduziu em 40% os custos do trabalho, a cifra assustadora que demonstra o ponto a que chegaram as terapias de choque neoliberais.
→ read full articleBreaking Up Is Hard to Do
Silvio Waisbord – Americas Quarterly,
4 Nov 2013
Tackling Latin America’s media empires is critical for the health of democracies.
→ read full articleHow the NSA Is Infiltrating Private Networks
Barton Gellman, Todd Lindeman and Ashkan Soltani – The Washington Post,
4 Nov 2013
This graphic shows how the NSA and GCHQ break into those internal networks, using Google’s as an example. Less is known about Yahoo’s networks, but the NSA operations are thought to be similar.
→ read full articleIs Brazil the New Regional Champion of Democracy?
Prof. Oliver Stuenkel – Americas Quarterly,
4 Nov 2013
Don’t confuse Brasília’s stepped-up profile with U.S.-style democracy promotion.
→ read full articleReport Calls for Female Genital Mutilation to Be Treated as Child Abuse
Conal Urquhart – The Guardian,
4 Nov 2013
Coalition of health professionals recommends aggressive steps to eradicate the practice in the UK.
→ read full articleMalala and Nabila: Worlds Apart
Murtaza Hussain – Al Jazeera,
4 Nov 2013
The only people to be recognized for their suffering in this conflict are those who fall victim to the Taliban. Malala for her struggles was to be made the face of the American war effort while innumerable little girls such as Nabila will continue to be terrorized and murdered as part of this war without end. There will be no celebrity appearances or awards ceremonies for Nabila. At her testimony almost no one even bothered to attend [5 congressmen].
→ read full articleHuge GMO News
Ocean Robbins - Reader Supported News,
28 Oct 2013
It has not been a good week for Monsanto and the rest of the biotech industry.
→ read full articleMonsanto versus the Associated Press, Round Two
Willy Blackmore, TakePart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
A new AP story focuses on the biotech company’s response to a report on the impact its chemicals have had in Argentina.
→ read full article(Português) França Espionada: “EUA Não Têm Aliados. Só Alvos e Vassalos”
Eduardo Febbro – Carta Maior,
28 Oct 2013
A França, assim como dezenas de países no mundo, tomou conhecimento de como, quando, quem e com que armas digitais os EUA a espionam até nas sombras.
→ read full articleWhat Fine? Why JPMorgan Is Laughing All the Way to the Bank
Robert Scheer - Truthdig,
28 Oct 2013
Although the $13 billion fine that includes $4 billion to swindled homeowners, mostly in depressed inner city neighborhoods, is to be applauded, it represents about half of the profit JPMorgan garnered last year. Obama once referred to his buddy Dimon as “one of the smartest bankers we got.” JPMorgan has been shameless and at least seven federal agencies, several state regulators and two foreign countries are investigating the bank.
→ read full articleTreating Anti-Syria Charges as Flat Fact
Robert Parry - Consortium News,
28 Oct 2013
With the blessing of the New York Times, the Obama administration has succeeded in cementing a dubious conventional wisdom about the Syrian government’s alleged use of chemical weapons last Aug. 21 – without presenting a shred of actual evidence.
→ read full articleThe Struggle for Meaning in a World of Violence
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
What is the measure of a human being? Is it their wealth? Their wisdom? Their spirituality? Is it something that can be measured from the outside? What if it is something else altogether?
→ read full articleCommunique of the London 11 ‘Friends of Syria’: More Arms for Jihadists, No Hope for Peace
US Department of State – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
Below is the text of a Communique issued following the London 11 Meeting held in London, United Kingdom, on October 22, 2013.
[Note from TMS editor: The London 11 consists of: Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Representatives of the leadership of the National Coalition also attend the meeting.]
As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
The year 2014 could be shaping up as the year that the chickens come home to roost. Americans, even well-informed ones, don’t know all of the mistakes made by neoconized and corrupted Washington in the past two decades. However, enough is known to see that the US has lost economic and political power, and that the loss is irreversible.
→ read full articleWhy Have Young People in Japan Stopped Having Sex?
Abigail Haworth – The Observer,
28 Oct 2013
What happens to a country when its young people stop having sex? Japan is finding out. 45% of Japanese women aged 16-24 are ‘not interested in or despise sexual contact’. More than a quarter of men feel the same way.
→ read full article(Português) Marx, por Daniel Bensaid
Emir Sader – Carta Maior,
21 Oct 2013
Bensaid restabelece o caráter global da obra e da vida de Marx, como pensador e como militante, como analista e como teórico da revolução. O livro acompanha a biografia do Marx, sua formação intelectual e política, a construção da sua obra e sua imbricação com sua militância política.
→ read full articleUS vs. Lavabit
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
21 Oct 2013
Now we have a police state apparatus of almost unimagined dimension, most of which is kept secret and remains unknown, despite the efforts of a few reporters and whistleblowers who tell the truth at their personal peril.
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Made In France (Music Video of the Week)
Aquarelle Guitar Quartet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
Recorded Live in Manchester – Aquarelle Guitar Quartet. Composer: Bireli Lagrene.
→ read full articleBloomberg News — Americans Sell Body Parts for Income
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
Americans who lost their jobs have experienced dramatic reductions in their incomes and access to medical care. They have used up their savings and now have to sell parts of their bodies for money. This crisis will worsen as the American economic collapse proceeds. Income and wealth are concentrated in the hands of a few oligarchs.
→ read full articleOriginal Pakistani TV Bashir Interview and Massimo Mazzucco’s 9/11 Documentary
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
Original Bashir interview that contradicts Washington’s account of killing bin Laden.
→ read full articleHow US Pressure Bends UN Agencies
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
21 Oct 2013
Exclusive: Lost in the celebration over the Nobel Peace Prize to the UN agency eliminating the Syrian government’s chemical weapons is the question of who was really behind the Aug. 21 poison-gas attack near Damascus. Relevant to that mystery is the recent U.S. pressure to control key UN agencies including the prize recipient, reports Robert Parry.
→ read full articleGrowing Backlash to NSA Surveillance
Martha Mendoza, AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
Policy makers, privacy advocates and political leaders around the world have been outraged at the near weekly disclosures from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden that expose sweeping U.S. government surveillance programs.
→ read full articleWall Street Bets a Quadrillion Dollars of Everybody Else’s Money
Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
“Even if the whole planet were offered as collateral, it could not cover Wall Street’s bets… Derivatives are valued at six times more than the total accumulated wealth of the world.”
→ read full articleSnowden Accepts Whistleblower Award
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
14 Oct 2013
Though former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has been indicted for leaking secrets about the U.S. government’s intrusive surveillance tactics, he was honored by a group of former U.S. intelligence officials as a courageous whistleblower during a Moscow ceremony, reports ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern who was there.
→ read full articleHuman Violence: Understanding it. Ending it.
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
What is violence? Let me define this phenomenon more precisely so that we might tackle it more effectively. It is social interference in the genetically programmed feelings, thoughts, sensing and/or behavior of another organism. It might be inflicted by an individual or an institution.
→ read full articleGuardian’s NSA Revelations: Spies to Go under Spotlight
Patrick Wintour, Rowena Mason and Dan Roberts – The Guardian,
14 Oct 2013
British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is to start conversations in government about how to update the legal oversight of the UK’s security services in the light of disclosures by the Guardian that powerful new technologies appear to have outstripped the current system of legislative and political oversight.
→ read full articleNew York Times Again Ignores Israel’s Nukes
Robert Parry - Consortium News,
7 Oct 2013
The U.S. news media’s bias in favor of Israel and against Israel’s enemies represents a journalistic failure to honestly inform the American people about issues that can lead to war. A glaring example is the double standard applied to Israel’s rogue nuclear arsenal.
→ read full articleWTO: Stingy with the Poor, Generous with the Rich
Martin Khor – Inter Press Service-IPS,
7 Oct 2013
Martin Khor, the executive director of the South Centre, writes about how the WTO’s agriculture rules favour rich countries while punishing developing countries.
→ read full articleA Syrian Solution to Civil Conflict? The Free Syrian Army Is Holding Talks with Assad’s Senior Staff
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
7 Oct 2013
Secret Approach to the President Could Reshape the Whole War – Six weeks ago, a two-man delegation arrived in secret in Damascus: civilians from Aleppo who represented elements of the Free Syrian Army, the rebel group largely composed of fighters who deserted the regime’s army in the first year of the war.
→ read full articlePakistani National TV Reveals That Obama’s Claim to Have Killed Osama bin Laden Is “An American Hoax”
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2013
Before you believe “your” government’s lies about Syria, remember “your” government’s lies about Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction.” Remember Washington’s lies about the Gulf of Tonkin that unleashed the Vietnam War. Remember the lies about Gaddafi and Libya. Remember the lies about 9/11, the lies about the murders of JFK, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King.
→ read full articleSwords into Solar Panels: Re-Purposing America’s War Machine
Mattea Kramer and Miriam Pemberton - TomDispatch,
7 Oct 2013
A great deal of good can happen if military contractors and militarized communities invest in new energy technology rather than Cold War weapons systems. As it happens, some savvy and forward-looking outfits in the military sector have already begun converting their know-how into green-tech manufacturing.
→ read full articleThe Commons – A Historical Concept of Property Rights
Hartmut Zückert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2013
The historical concept of the commons is a concept of property rights. If we historicize the contemporary debate about the commons and bring the historical concept of the commons into play, we must take that into account. Yet we must consider whether the question of property rights is even the central issue if we seek to solve global problems, and if so, how common-property rights can be fleshed out today.
→ read full articleFukushima Autumn
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
7 Oct 2013
Dishonesty of the Abe sort has characterized the nuclear industry (weapons and power) since its earliest days when its spokespersons were telling us radiation was more or less good for us.
→ read full articleGreenwald-Scahill to Report on ‘NSA and US Assassinations’
Jenny Barchfield, Associated Press – Reader Supported News,
1 Oct 2013
Two American journalists known for their investigations of the United States’ government said Saturday [28 Sep 2013] they’ve teamed up to report on the National Security Agency’s role in what one called a “U.S. assassination program.”
→ read full articleIsrael Gives Palestinian 10 Year Prison Sentence for Selling Pretzels
Apartheid Exists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
They require a permit to do anything – have a job, build a home, get water etc but when you file the appropriate paperwork …. it doesn’t get approved (if you’re Palestinian). Palestinians live under absolute tyranny even when they’re Israeli citizens. Their government takes a hostile approach to them and does everything possible to ensure they remain in poverty strictly because they’re not Jewish.
→ read full articleGas Missiles ‘Were NOT Sold to Syria’
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
30 Sep 2013
While the Assad regime in Damascus has denied responsibility for the sarin gas missiles that killed around 1,400 Syrians in the suburb of Ghouta on 21 August, information is now circulating in the city that Russia’s new “evidence” about the attack includes the dates of export of the specific rockets used and – more importantly – the countries to which they were originally sold.
→ read full articleA Corporate Coup of a Different Order: The Growing Resistance to the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Arthur Phillips – Toward Freedom,
30 Sep 2013
In February, more than four years later, President Obama claimed his to be “the most transparent administration in history.” Perhaps the least publicized example of that statement’s dishonesty is the White House’s efforts to negotiate the biggest trade agreement since the mid 1990s in near-total secrecy. The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, has been in negotiations since 2007.
→ read full articleLife on the Line: Can Humanity Survive?
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
As we approach the International Day of Nonviolence on 2 October, which recognizes Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, one challenge we face is to celebrate his life in a way that Gandhi himself would have found meaningful.
→ read full articleQuestions Plague UN Syria Report. Who Was Behind the East Ghouta Chemical Weapons Attack?
Sharmine Narwani and Radwan Mortada - Al-Akhbar,
30 Sep 2013
A senior United Nations official who deals directly with Syrian affairs has told Al-Akhbar that the Syrian government had no involvement in the alleged Ghouta chemical weapons attack: “Of course not, he (President Bashar al-Assad) would be committing suicide.” When asked who he believed was responsible for the use of chemical munitions in Ghouta, the UN official, who would not permit disclosure of his identity, said: “Saudi intelligence was behind the attacks and unfortunately nobody will dare say that.”
→ read full articleOld Dog, Old Trick: US, Saudis, Qatar Attempt “Arab Spring” Retread in Sudan
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
Protests are smokescreen for unfolding US-Saudi-Qatari backed violence seeking regime change in Sudan.
→ read full article(Português) Alemanha Forte, Europa Social Destroçada
Roberto Sávio – Outras Palavras,
30 Sep 2013
Reeleição de Angela Merkel pressagia continente que abandona solidariedade, assume face punitiva do protestantismo e descamba para desigualdade e xenofobia.
→ read full article(Português) Vitórias da Multipolaridade Mundial
Emir, Carta Maior – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
O que parecia impossível há 3 semanas, agora é uma realidade consolidada. O Conselho de Segurança da ONU aprovou o acordo da Rússia com os EUA para a crise síria. Perdem Israel, a oposição síria, a Arábia Saudita, o Qatar. Ganham os que pregam o enfraquecimento da hegemonia norte-americana em favor da multipolaridade mundial.
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Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark: US Sanctions Are Genocidal
Abby Martin – Russia Today,
23 Sep 2013
Sep 17, 2013 – Abby Martin speaks with former US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, discussing Iraq before the first Gulf War, his opinions on Syria, why he legally represented Saddam Hussein, and how US sanctions have a far greater negative effect on people than on the regimes of the countries these sanctions target.
→ read full articleAssad’s Troops May Be Winning This War in Syria’s Capital – Untouched by Obama’s Threats
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
23 Sep 2013
Some questions are familiar. Why use gas when so much more lethal weaponry is being flung at rebel forces across the country? If the government wanted to use gas, why not employ it north of Aleppo where not a single government soldier or official exists? Why in Damascus?
→ read full articleHugo Boss Gave the Nazis Style
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
23 Sep 2013
Russell Brand: “Also glad to grace the stage where [London mayor] Boris Johnson has just made light of the use of chemical weapons in Syria – meaning that GQ can now stand for Genocide Quips. If any of you know a little bit about history and fashion, you know that Hugo Boss made the uniforms for the Nazis – now the Nazis did have flaws, but they did look f-ing fantastic, let’s face it – while they were killing people on the basis of their religion and sexuality. “
→ read full article(Português) Celso Amorim: “Precisamos Nos Preparar Para Evitar Uma Guerra Cibernética”
Martín Granovsky, Pagina/12 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Ministro de Relações Exteriores, no governo Lula, e ministro da Defesa, no governo Dilma, Celso Amorim, em entrevista ao jornal Página/12, explica por que a América do Sul necessita de uma visão comum sobre a defesa baseada na cooperação e na preservação dos recursos naturais. E também o que fazer diante de uma guerra cibernética. “Estamos pensando em realizar um grande esforço na área da defesa cibernética”, anuncia.
→ read full articleThe BRICS “Independent Internet” Cable. In Defiance of the “US-Centric Internet”
Umberto Pascali - Global Research,
23 Sep 2013
The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, announces publicly the creation of a world internet system INDEPENDENT from the “US-centric internet”. Not many understand that Rousseff can take such a historic step because the alternative infrastructure, the BRICS cable from Vladivostock, Russia to Shantou, China to Chennai, India to Cape Town, South Africa to Fortaleza, Brazil, is being built and is in its final phase of implementation.
→ read full articleThe Myth of the “Free Market” and How to Make the Economy Work for Us
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
One of the most deceptive ideas continuously sounded by the Right is that the “free market” is natural and inevitable, existing outside and beyond government. So whatever inequality or insecurity it generates is beyond our control.
→ read full articleMajor US Security Company Warns Over NSA Link to Encryption Formula
Charles Arthur and agencies – The Guardian,
23 Sep 2013
A major American computer security company has told thousands of customers to stop using an encryption system that relies on a mathematical formula developed by the National Security Agency.
→ read full articleFive Lies Invented to Spin UN Report on Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
A barrage of suspiciously worded headlines attempt to link in the mind of unobservant readers the UN’s “confirmation” of chemical weapons use in Syria and Western claims that it was the Syrian government that used them. The US, British, and French governments have quickly assembled a list of fabrications to spin the UN report to bolster their still-unsubstantiated accusations against the Syrian government.
→ read full article(Português) Por Que Controlar os Fluxos de Capitais
Luiz Gonzaga Belluzzo, Carta Capital – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Keynes repetiu seguidamente nos trabalhos preparatórios da Conferência de Bretton Woods: “O controle de capitais deveria ser uma característica permanente da nova ordem econômica mundial”. O Plano Keynes postulava a criação de uma moeda internacional. Perdeu a parada para os interesses do establisment americano.
→ read full articlePolice Are More Dangerous to the Public Than Are Criminals
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The worse threat every American faces comes from his/her own government. At the federal level the threat is a seventh war (Syria) in 12 years, leading on to the eighth and ninth (Iran and Lebanon) and then on to nuclear war with Russia and China.
→ read full articleContinuity of Agenda: Syria Catastrophe Engineered Under Bush, Executed Verbatim Under Obama
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The rise of Al Qaeda in Syria and the predictable bloodbath that followed is the documented work of US, Israel, & Saudi Arabia.
→ read full articleHow PPP Helped Stop a War!
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Overwhelming public opinion and people-power protest action, both in the U.S. and around the world, against a U.S. attack on Syria, including an appeal by the Pope, and a diplomatic proposal from the Russians all helped to call off the planned illegal U.S. military attack on Syria in the 11th hour.
→ read full articleOn the Fence about Syria? Read This!
Peter Certo – Foreign Policy in Focus,
11 Sep 2013
A quick reader on why military intervention in Syria is a big mistake–and what we should be advocating instead.
→ read full articleWhales: US Navy Ignores California’s Call to Curb Training Involving Sonar, Underwater Blasts
Maureen Nandini Mitra – Earth Island Journal,
11 Sep 2013
Several new studies show Naval activities are impacting CA’s blue whale and beaked whale populations especially hard.
→ read full articlePsychoanalysing Psychiatrists and Psychologists Who Torture
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Moreover, in a recent article, ‘Hawaiian Mind Games: American Psychological Association Fiddles While Psychology Burns,’ Roy Eidelson and Stephen Soldz again expose the complicity of US psychologists in researching, designing, implementing, supervising and providing ethical cover for torture inflicted by the CIA and the US military on ‘national security’ prisoners at Guantanamo and elsewhere.
→ read full article(Português) EUA e Reino Unido ‘Derrotaram’ Criptografia na Internet
Marcelo Justo, Carta Maior - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Agência Nacional de Segurança Nacional (NSA) e sua correlata britânica, o GCHQ, decifraram uma grande parte dos códigos criptografados na internet que protegem a privacidade de e-mails, registros bancários e médicos de centenas de milhões de pessoas. As agências celebraram o feito em tom triunfalista assinalando em suas mensagens que “derrotaram a segurança e privacidade da rede”.
→ read full articleWhat Is Economics Good For?
Alex Rosenberg and Tyler Curtain – The New York Times,
10 Sep 2013
It’s easy to understand why economics might be mistaken for science. It uses quantitative expression in mathematics and the succinct statement of its theories in axioms and derived “theorems,” so economics looks a lot like the models of science we are familiar with from physics.
→ read full articleU.S. Spy Network’s Successes, Failures and Objectives Detailed in ‘Black Budget’ Summary
Barton Gellman and Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
2 Sep 2013
U.S. spy agencies have built an intelligence-gathering colossus since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but remain unable to provide critical information to the president on a range of national security threats, according to the government’s top-secret budget.
→ read full articleCommercial News Beats the War Drum
Mark Ash - Reader Supported News,
2 Sep 2013
The New York Times, following in the great tradition of Washington correspondent extraordinaire Judith Miller, is busy rationalizing and explaining the White House’s mind on the upcoming military action. The point of the proposed attack, explains the Times, is to “Restore a ‘Red Line’ That Became Blurred.” Presumably the mission will then be accomplished.
→ read full articleFukushima Workers Discover Deadly Spike in Radiation
Scott Martelle - Truthdig,
2 Sep 2013
Workers at the Fukushima nuclear power disaster site have made an uncomfortable discovery: radiation levels 18 times higher than anticipated at the bottom of a holding tank. The levels are high enough to kill a person within four hours.
→ read full articleObama Has Decided That It Is Safer to Buy Congress than to Go It Alone
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
While still claiming dictatorial powers to start a war on his own authority, Obama put his unilateral attack on Syria on hold when he received a letter from more than 160 members of the House of Representatives reminding him that to take the country to war without congressional approval is an impeachable offense and when he saw that no country that could serve as cover for a war crime, not even the puppet British government and the NATO puppet states, would support America’s announced military aggression against Syria.
→ read full articleBradley Manning: ‘Everything Is Going To Be OK’
Scott Galindez - Reader Supported News,
26 Aug 2013
Bradley Manning, moments after being sentenced to 35 years in prison, turned to his attorney David Coombs and told him, “It’s okay … I’m okay, everything is going to be okay.” Coombs said it was the first time a client had cheered him up after a verdict.
→ read full article(Português) Vaticano Ocupa 8º Lugar Global em Lavagem de Dinheiro
Dermi Azevedo – Carta Maior,
26 Aug 2013
A pesquisa foi realizada pela rede de organizações sociais francesas Voltaire, com base em dados fornecidos por autoridades alemãs e suíças. No ano passado, o Instituto de Obras da Religião (IOR), nome oficial do Banco do Vaticano, epicentro do problema, teria lavado cerca de 33 bilhões de dólares.
→ read full articleThe Moment the U.S. Ended Iran’s Brief Experiment in Democracy
Robert Scheer - Truthdig,
26 Aug 2013
Sixty years ago this week, on Aug. 19, 1953, the United States, in collaboration with Britain, successfully staged a coup in Iran to overthrow democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh that a newly declassified CIA document reveals was designed to preserve the control of Western companies over Iran’s rich oil fields.
→ read full articleGangster State US/UK
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Washington’s UK puppets simply kidnapped David Miranda, the Brazilian partner of Glenn Greenwald, who is reporting on the illegal and unconstitutional spying by the National Stasi Agency, threatened him for nine hours, and stole his computer, phones, and all his electronic equipment. As a smug US official told the media, “the purpose was to send a message.”
→ read full articleCairo Massacre: After Today, What Muslim Will Ever Trust the Ballot Box Again?
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
19 Aug 2013
14 Aug 2013 – This marks a tragic turning point, from which it will take Egypt years to recover.
→ read full articleWho Benefits from the Various ‘Wars’?
Arjen Kamphuis – Consortium News,
19 Aug 2013
P.R. experts are skilled at framing policy debates in favorable though misleading ways like the “war on terror” or the “war on drugs.” What gets shielded by this packaging are the unstated goals, interests and outcomes that would draw popular opposition if known.
→ read full articleAn Apology to Bradley Manning
Scott Galindez - Reader Supported News,
19 Aug 2013
First of all Bradley, it is the court, the Army, and the American people that should be apologizing to you. We failed you, not the other way around. None of us are perfect, Bradley. Your honorable conduct has already had a positive impact on society. I am sorry – sorry that our society continues to fail you. Thank you, Bradley.
→ read full article5 Myths Used to Justify Death by Drone and America’s Assassination Policy
Robert Greenwald - AlterNet,
19 Aug 2013
Obama’s drone war relies on propaganda to keep the American public from understanding the inhumanity of high-tech drone killings.
→ read full articleHumanity Is Drowning in Washington’s Criminality
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
Americans will soon be locked into an unaccountable police state unless US Representatives and Senators find the courage to ask questions and to sanction the executive branch officials who break the law, violate the Constitution, withhold information from Congress, and give false information about their crimes against law, the Constitution, the American people and those in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Guantanamo, and elsewhere.
→ read full articleThe Rule of Law: Unjust and Violent
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
While diverse but eminent historical figures such as Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas K. Gandhi all wrote critiques exposing the injustice and violence of legal systems, the delusion that the law is a neutral agency that delivers justice still widely prevails.
→ read full articleThe Moral Imperative of Activism
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
19 Aug 2013
Today’s crises – endless war, environmental catastrophe, desperate poverty and more – can seem so daunting that they paralyze action rather than inspire activism. But the imperative to do something in the face of injustice defines one’s moral place in the universe.
→ read full articleAny Other ‘Statesman’ Who Negotiated Peace like John Kerry Would Be Treated as a Thief
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
19 Aug 2013
Has John Kerry no shame? Any other “statesman” – who told an occupied people that if they didn’t make peace their occupiers would steal even more of their land, would be regarded as an outcast, a fellow thief.
→ read full articleHiroshima, Fukushima, and the Global Crisis of Violence: Where Do We Go from Here?
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
There are now 9 countries with nuclear weapons –the U.S., Russia, Great Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea. Add to this the violence of climate change, the plundering of the earth resources, and even the genetic modification of our very food supply. All for what? Ever increasing short-term profits? Ever increasing consumption, energy demands? Addictions eventually kill. And greed and our addiction to war may prove to be the worst addictions of all.
→ read full articleGoogle Chrome Security Flaw Offers Unrestricted Password Access
Charles Arthur – The Guardian,
12 Aug 2013
Plain text logon details for email, social networks and company systems stored in browser’s Settings panel. One security manager said: “The fact you can view the passwords means they are stored in reversible form which means that the dark coders out there will be writing a Trojan to steal that password store as we speak.”
→ read full articleMass Data: Transfers from Germany Aid US Surveillance
Hubert Gude, Laura Poitras and Marcel Rosenbach – Der Spiegel,
12 Aug 2013
German intelligence sends massive amounts of intercepted data to the NSA, according to documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden, which SPIEGEL has seen. The trans-Atlantic cooperation on technical matters is also much closer than first thought.
→ read full article(Português) O Discurso da Servidão Voluntária
Flávio Ricardo Vassoler – Carta Maior,
12 Aug 2013
O darwinismo social de nosso capitalismo não sentencia que aquilo que sobrevive e sobrepuja é a única força possível – e válida? Sendo assim, por que as vítimas deveriam se identificar com outras vítimas? Daniel Balint reproduz o discurso da servidão voluntária, “contanto que eu possa escarrar o meu ódio contra o outro que é tão impotente quanto eu mesmo”.
→ read full articleDo We Want School or Education?
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
The tragic reality of human life is that few people value the awesome power of the individual Self with an integrated mind (that is, a mind in which memory, thoughts, feelings, sensing, conscience and other functions work together in an integrated way) because this individual will be decisive in choosing life-enhancing behavioural options (including those at variance with social laws and norms) and will fearlessly resist all efforts to control it or coerce it with violence.
→ read full articleClimate Change, Sustainable Development and Security Are Coming Together, and Asia Must Drive the Post-2015 Global Agenda and Global Goals
Mukul Sanwal, India Environment Portal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
As China re-shapes its urban future, with its planned urbanization involving 250 million farmers, its willingness to lead by example in reforming the United Nations, rather than the United States defending the current arrangements, will determine the outcome and the new global rules. It may well be a complete break with the past, equitable and democratic.
→ read full article(Português) O Garoto Que Desafiou o Império — E Está Vencendo
Cauê Seignemartin Ameni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
“Quando se dá conta de que o mundo que
ajudou a criar será pior para as próximas gerações
e que esta arquitetura de opressão se estendem,
você entende que é preciso aceitar qualquer risco.
Sem se preocupar com as consequências.”
Edward Snowden em sua primeira entrevista ao The Guardian
Courts Rule MMR & Thimerosal Containing Vaccines Caused Autism & Brain Damage
Joe Martino, Collective Evolution – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
All information containing new and unprecedented conclusions begins by being violently opposed by those who create the prior information and those who subscribe heavily to it. This is very much the case with the link between Autism Spectrum Disorder and vaccines; mainly the MMR vaccine and other thimerosal containing vaccines.
→ read full articleRole Reversal: How the US Became the USSR
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
Snowden harmed no one except the liars and traitors in the US government. Contrast Washington’s animosity against Snowden with the pardon that Bush gave to Dick Cheney aide, Libby, who took the fall for his boss for blowing the cover, a felony, on a covert CIA operative, the spouse of a former government official who exposed the Bush/Cheney/neocon lies about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
→ read full articleBankers Own the World – And Are Ultimately Destroying It
Chris Martenson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take away from them the power to create money, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money. ~ Josiah Stamp – Bank of England Chairman, 1920s
→ read full articleSyria’s Exodus: A Refugee Crisis for the World
Martin Chulov and Mark Rice-Oxley – The Guardian,
29 Jul 2013
“When we look at the prospects, one that we all have to face is that this conflict is creating a large risk of sectarian cleansing. This is how Srebrenica happened, how Rwanda happened, by gradually building up this enormous wave that leads to catastrophic consequences. This is the [crisis] that makes me lose sleep.”
→ read full article(Português) Assassinatos por Drones
Emir Sader – Carta Maior,
29 Jul 2013
“Eu soube que meu neto de 16 anos, Abduirhman – um cidadão norte-americano –, foi morto por um drone norte-americano. Um míssil matou-o, assim como seu primo e pelo menos outras cinco pessoas, enquanto eles estavam jantando em um restaurante ao ar livre, no sul do Iêmen”.
→ read full articleBee Apocalypse Now: Scientists Discover What’s Killing the Bees and It’s Worse Than You Thought
Todd Woody, Quartz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
In a first-of-its-kind study published today in the journal PLOS ONE [24 Jul 2013], scientists at the University of Maryland and the US Department of Agriculture have identified a witch’s brew of pesticides and fungicides contaminating pollen that bees collect to feed their hives. The findings break new ground on why large numbers of bees are dying.
→ read full articleSpecial Report: Thai Authorities Implicated in Rohingya Muslim Smuggling Network
Jason Szep and Stuart Grudgings, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The beatings were accompanied by threats: If his family didn’t produce the money, Myanmar refugee Abdul Sabur would be sold into slavery on a fishing boat, his captors shouted, lashing him with bamboo sticks.
→ read full article