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globinfo freexchange On November, 23, WikiLeaks published an e-mail, sent by a member of an OPCW fact-finding mission to Syria to his superiors, in which he expresses his gravest concern over intentional bias introduced to a redacted version of the report he co-authored. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons sent a team of experts to investigate allegations that a chemical attack took place in the Syrian city of Douma on the 7th of April 2018. The author of the e-mail was a member of that team and claims the redacted preliminary version of the report, misrepresents the facts he and his colleagues discovered on the ground. The e-mail is dated 22nd of June. It is addressed to Robert Fairweather, Chief of Cabinet, and forwarded to his deputy Aamir Shouket and members of the fact-finding mission to Douma.   In short, the OPCW whistleblower actually claims that the report has been somehow altered. And it was done in a way to fit the scenario, ac...

The Real News Network While the spark for each protest might be different, it is not about left and right but the failure of neoliberalism. 

Former President Barack Obama reportedly told advisers behind closed doors earlier this year that he would actively oppose Sen. Bernie Sanders if the progressive senator from Vermont opened up a big lead in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary race. “ Publicly, [Obama] has been clear that he won’t intervene in the primary for or against a candidate, ” Politico reported Tuesday. “ There is one potential exception: Back when Sanders seemed like more of a threat than he does now, Obama said privately that if Bernie were running away with the nomination, Obama would speak up to stop him. ” Progressives viewed Obama’s comments as further evidence that the former president, who was elected in 2008 on the soaring promise of “ hope and change, ” is now using his influence on the Democratic Party to undercut the grassroots push for transformational policies like Medicare for All and the Green New Deal. “ Obama’s post-presidency is grating and full of contradictions, ” tweeted Da...

After presiding over a far-right coup in Bolivia, the US dubbed Nicaragua a “national security threat” and announced new sanctions, while Trump designated drug cartels in Mexico as “terrorists” and refused to rule out military intervention. by Ben Norton Part 1 One successful coup against a democratically elected socialist president is not enough, it seems. Immediately after overseeing a far-right military coup in Bolivia on November 10, the Trump administration set its sights once again Nicaragua, whose democratically elected Sandinista government defeated a violent right-wing coup attempt in 2018. Washington dubbed Nicaragua a threat to US national security, and announced that it will be expanding its suffocating sanctions on the tiny Central American nation. Trump is also turning up the heat on Mexico, baselessly linking the country to terrorism and even hinting at potential military intervention. The moves come as the country’s left-leaning President Andrés Man...

The Jewish community’s alienation from Labour has been years in the making - but it is Johnson's Conservatives who have embraced hostility to minorities Jonathan Cook Part 2 - Evidence sidelined The survey has been widely quoted as further, irrefutable proof that Labour has become “ institutionally antisemitic ” on Corbyn’s watch. All the evidence shows otherwise, but facts have not held much sway in a debate driven chiefly by emotion and insinuation. Last month the Economist magazine, no friend to Corbyn or the Labour party, published a survey of British attitudes towards Israel and Jews, broken down into ideological factions.  It found that “ very left wing ” voters - the people who share Corbyn’s politics – were among the least likely to hold antisemitic views, even though they also had by far the most critical views of Israel. By contrast, supporters of the right were three and a half times more likely to express antisemitic opinions. The centre, represent...

In a nauseating interview on Pod Save America, Elizabeth Warren endorsed suffocating US sanctions on Venezuela, backing Trump’s strategy to stop their “ability to have an economy” while parroting neocon regime-change myths. She then whitewashed the far-right military coup in Bolivia. by Ben Norton Part 4 - Elizabeth Warren soft-pedals the far-right coup in Bolivia While Warren endorsed Trump’s hybrid war on Venezuela, she more recently whitewashed the US-backed coup in Bolivia. On November 10, the US government backed a far-right military coup against Bolivia’s democratically elected President Evo Morales, a leftist from the popular Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party and the first Indigenous head of state in a country where nearly two-thirds of the population is Native. Warren refused to comment on the putsch for more than a week, even as the far-right military junta massacred dozens of protesters and systematically purged and detained elected left-wing politicians f...

Bolivian coup leader Luis Fernando Camacho is a far-right multi-millionaire who arose from fascist movements in the Santa Cruz region, where the US has encouraged separatism. He has courted support from Colombia, Brazil, and the Venezuelan opposition. by Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton Part 5 - An assassination plot links Bolivia’s right to international fascists In April 2009, a special unit of the Bolivian security services barged into a luxury hotel room and cut down three men who were said to be involved in a plot to kill Evo Morales. Two others remained on the loose. Four of the alleged conspirators had Hungarian or Croatian roots and ties to rightist politics in eastern Europe, while another was a right-wing Irishman, Michael Dwyer, who had only arrived in Santa Cruz six months before.  The ringleader of the group was said to be a former leftist journalist named Eduardo Rosza-Flores who had turned to fascism and belonged to Opus Dei, the traditionalist Catholic...

The Labour leader produced 451 pages of previously-redacted notes which he said proved Boris Johnson was lying when he claimed the health service was not " up for sale ". The document provided details of six meetings over a two-year period between UK and American officials.  Mr Corbyn said it " pulls back the curtain " on Conservative plans to give American corporations access to the NHS once the UK leaves the EU. He said: " We have now got evidence that under Boris Johnson the NHS is on the table and will be up for sale. He tried to cover it up in a secret agenda and today it has been exposed. " The Labour leader said the cost of medicines has been discussed, adding that “ lives will be put at risk ” as a result of longer patents for drugs making them more expensive to patients. He added: " This election is now a fight for the survival of our National Health Service. " Mr Corbyn said a deal with the US on the terms outlined in t...

On November, 23, Wikileaks published an e-mail, sent by a member of an OPCW fact-finding mission to Syria to his superiors, in which he expresses his gravest concern over intentional bias introduced to a redacted version of the report he co-authored. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons sent a team of experts to investigate allegations that a chemical attack took place in the Syrian city of Douma on the 7th of April 2018. The author of the e-mail was a member of that team and claims the redacted preliminary version of the report, misrepresents the facts he and his colleagues discovered on the ground. The e-mail is dated 22nd of June. It is addressed to Robert Fairweather, Chief of Cabinet, and forwarded to his deputy Aamir Shouket and members of the fact-finding mission to Douma. He says this misrepresentation was achieved by selective omission, introducing a bias which undermines the credibility of the report. Further it is claimed that crucial facts, that ...

At least eight individuals with ties to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were arrested in Iran during protests over a fuel price hike, the country’s official state news agency IRNA reported. Those detained “ had received CIA-funded training in various countries under the cover of becoming citizen-journalists, ” Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said, as cited by the outlet. Six were reportedly arrested attending street riots while “ carrying out CIA orders, ” while two others were apprehended as they were trying to “ send information abroad. ” They had all received orders to attend protests and prepare reports, " especially videos, " the intelligence agency said.Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei earlier blamed the protests on a “ grave, extensive and very dangerous conspiracy ” by the US to sow discord in Iran. Khamenei released a statement Wednesday thanking the Iranian people for quashing the chaos, after pro-government demonstrations popped up to counter the...

More than 60 doctors have written an open letter saying they fear Julian Assange’s health is so bad that the WikiLeaks founder could die inside a top-security British jail. The 48-year-old Australian is still fighting a US bid to extradite him from Britain on charges filed under the Espionage Act that could see him given a sentence of up to 175 years in a US prison. In the letter to the British home secretary, Priti Patel, the doctors called for Assange to be moved from Belmarsh prison in southeast London to a university teaching hospital. They based their assessment on “ harrowing eyewitness accounts ” of his 21 October court appearance in London and a 1 November report by Nils Melzer, the United Nations special rapporteur on torture. The independent UN rights expert said Assange’s “ continued exposure to arbitrariness and abuse may soon end up costing his life ”. Full report: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/nov/25/julian-assanges-health-is-so-bad-he-could-di...

acTVism Munich Interviews from 2018 to 2019 pertaining to the extradition case of Julian Assange and the implications it has on press freedoms and democracy. This compilation includes analyses from Abby Martin, Jill Stein, Yanis Varoufakis and Noam Chomsky. This video also includes statements from Edward Snowden, Srećko Horvat and Angela Richter that were recorded at a demonstration for Assange in Berlin on the 2nd of May, 2019. Edward Snowden's written statement was read out by Angela Richter. 

The Real News Network Hundreds of thousands protested throughout Colombia in the past days against neoliberal reforms and the government's failure to comply with an agreement to increase education funding.

984radio Τι δείχνουν οι εξελίξεις στην Νότιο Αμερική. Ο επικεφαλής του info-war  Άρης Χατζηστεφάνου , μιλώντας στον 98.4 για τον αργό βιολογικό και ψυχολογικό θάνατο  του εκδότη-δημοσιογράφου Τζούλιαν Ασάνζ, σημείωσε με νόημα πως η υπόθεση του ιδίως από τις ΗΠΑ χρησιμοποιείται ως παράδειγμα «εξόντωσης» της ίδιας της αποκαλυπτικής δημοσιογραφίας.  Ένας άνθρωπος που πρόσφερε τόσα πολλά στην ανθρωπότητα παγκοσμίως πεθαίνει καθημερινά  μέσα σε μια συνωμοσία κρατών, διεθνών οργανώσεων και ΜΜΕ, ως συνέπεια της απόφασης του μαζί με μερικούς ακόμη μάρτυρες δημοσίου συμφέροντος, να καταδείξουν πως το «σιδερένιο κράτος και οι υπερεθνικές εξουσίες» δεν είναι  ανίκητες.  Ο Άρης Χατζηστεφάνου, μίλησε ακόμη στον 98.4 για τις εξελίξεις στη Νότιο Αμερική, σημειώνοντας ότι η κρίση του ακραίου νεοφιλελευθερισμού στις χώρες αυτές, οδηγεί τους υμνητές του λιγότερου κράτους σε όλο και μεγαλύτερη εξάρτηση και παρουσία του σιδερόφραχτου κράτους και των κρατικών μηχα...

The Jewish community’s alienation from Labour has been years in the making - but it is Johnson's Conservatives who have embraced hostility to minorities Jonathan Cook Part 1 A supposed antisemitism crisis in Britain’s Labour party since Jeremy Corbyn became leader has erupted back into the headlines. This time barely any effort has been made to conceal the fact that the accusations relate to the "danger” that Corbyn could soon win power, with Britain gearing up for a general election in less than a month. This week Britain’s chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, added his voice to argue in the Times newspaper that the opposition leader was “ unfit for high office ” - the first time a chief rabbi has ever sought to interfere in the outcome of a general election. Calling Corbyn “ mendacious ” and warning that the election result would serve as a measure of Britain’s “ moral compass ”, he urged the public to “ vote with their conscience ”.  His intervention followed ...

In a nauseating interview on Pod Save America, Elizabeth Warren endorsed suffocating US sanctions on Venezuela, backing Trump’s strategy to stop their “ability to have an economy” while parroting neocon regime-change myths. She then whitewashed the far-right military coup in Bolivia. by Ben Norton Part 3 - Warren reiterates her neoconservative policies against Venezuela Elizabeth Warren repeated her support for regime change in Venezuela in an interview in September with the Council on Foreign Relations, a central gear in the machinery of the military-industrial complex. “ Maduro is a dictator and a crook who has wrecked his country’s economy, dismantled its democratic institutions, and profited while his people suffer, ” Warren declared. She referred to Maduro’s elected government as a “ regime ” and called for “ supporting regional efforts to negotiate a political transition. ” Echoing the rhetoric of neoconservatives in Washington, Warren called for “ contain[ing...

Bolivian coup leader Luis Fernando Camacho is a far-right multi-millionaire who arose from fascist movements in the Santa Cruz region, where the US has encouraged separatism. He has courted support from Colombia, Brazil, and the Venezuelan opposition. by Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton Part 4 - Camacho’s Croatian godfather and separatist powerbroker Branko Marinkovic is a major landowner who ramped up his support for the right-wing opposition after some of his land was nationalized by the Evo Morales government. As chairman of the Pro-Santa Cruz Committee, he oversaw the operations of the main engine of separatism in Bolivia. In a 2008 letter to Marinkovic, the International Federation for Human Rights denounced the committee as an “ actor and promoter of racism and violence in Bolivia. ” The human rights group added that it “ condemn[ed] the attitude and secessionist, unionist and racist discourses as well as the calls for military disobedience of which the Pro-Santa Cru...

globinfo freexchange One year from the 2020 US presidential election, things start to become clearer day by day. In the US political scene, we can now recognize the authentic progressives from the fakes, and certainly, from the establishment neoliberal centrists.  In the presidential-candidates level we can now identify only Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard as the ones who are willing to fight the establishment and try to implement progressive, anti-imperialist policies. After her latest position, concerning the military coup in Bolivia against the democratically elected Evo Morales, Elizabeth Warren could be considered a pseudo-progressive, equal to a female Barack Obama. Therefore, progressives definitely can't trust her. Warren tweeted: The Bolivian people deserve free and fair elections, as soon as possible. Bolivia's interim leadership must limit itself to preparing for an early, legitimate election. Bolivia's security forces must protect demonstrat...

“The military has guns and a license to kill; we have nothing.” – A Bolivian mother shot by police by Medea Benjamin  I am writing from Bolivia just days after witnessing the November 19 military massacre at the Senkata gas plant in the indigenous city of El Alto, and the tear-gassing of a peaceful funeral procession on November 21 to commemorate the dead. These are examples, unfortunately, of the modus operandi of the de facto government that seized control in a coup that forced Evo Morales out of power. The coup has spawned massive protests, with blockades set up around the country as part of a national strike calling for the resignation of this new government. One well-organized blockade is in El Alto, where residents set up barriers surrounding the Senkata gas plant, stopping tankers from leaving the plant and cutting off La Paz’s main source of gasoline. Determined to break the blockade, the government sent in helicopters, tanks and heavily armed soldiers in the...

Facing increased resistance to its rule, the new “coup” gov’t in Bolivia is purging any potential threats to its authority, including teleSUR and other alternative media. by Alan Macleod  Facing increased resistance to its rule, the new “transition” government of Jeanine Añez in Bolivia has begun to purge and censor potential threats to its authority, including in the media. TeleSUR, an international media network that began as a collaboration between left-wing Latin American nations, including deposed President Evo Morales’ Bolivia and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, and which espouses an openly leftist and anti-imperialist outlook, received confirmation that it would be taken off the airwaves as part of what the government calls a “reorganization” of the airwaves. TeleSUR openly opposed the U.S.-backed military coup d’état that installed Añez as head of state earlier this month. New Communications Minister Roxana Lizárraga announced that this was part of the “ dismantling of t...

RT America Chris Hedges talks to author Stephen Kinzer about the CIA’s quest for mind control through its experiments in drug and torture during the 1950s and 1960s, both  domestically and internationally.  Kinzer’s new book is titled Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control .  

Actor John Krasinski is one of the CIA’s biggest fans. “ The CIA is something that we should all not only cherish, but be saying thank you every single day, ” he declared. “ The coolest thing ever for me, I mean I totally nerded out when we got to the CIA, ” Krasinski effused. “ They were the most unbelievably generous, kind, smart people. ” Krasinski’s comments flowed directly from his experience as the star of the second season of the Amazon series “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan.” In a new video analysis of the show, researcher Tom Secker exposed the show as straightforward US imperial propaganda which was produced in direct collaboration with the CIA and Pentagon. The editor of the website Spy Culture, Secker has elucidated the role of Hollywood in disseminating propaganda aimed at instilling a militaristic mindset in the public. Through FOIA documents, Secker has methodically demonstrated the role of the Pentagon, CIA, and FBI in shaping scripts and setting the agen...

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act on November 19, without any opposition. Despite loudly proclaiming to protect “ human rights ” and “ democracy, ” a closer look at this legislation reveals the imperial agenda underlying Washington’s actions in Hong Kong. Behind its humanitarian cloak, the Senate bill advances the threat of economic sanctions in order to impose Washington’s foreign policy interests on China and the region, while turning up the heat on North Korea and Iran. At the same time, the bill pledges to “ safeguard United States businesses in Hong Kong. ” The legislation is a long-term project of neoconservatives and leading Hong Kong opposition activists like Joshua Wong, a protest poster boy who has been present in meetings in Washington to develop the sanctions legislation since November 2016. In fact, the act was passed in the immediate wake of a lobbying junket to the U.S. by prominent Hong Kong opposition figures, in...

globinfo freexchange Ποιος πρωθυπουργός υπερασπίστηκε ξεδιάντροπα, απροκάλυπτα και χωρίς ίχνος δισταγμού, τους τραπεζίτες και μάλιστα μέσα στη Βουλή; Αν πείτε Κυριάκος Μητσοτάκης, κερδίσατε. Δεν ξέρουμε αν υπάρχει ιστορικά άλλη τέτοια περίπτωση, όπου ο πρωθυπουργός της Ελλάδος να τάσσεται τόσο ανοιχτά υπέρ των τραπεζιτών. Και καλά, οι νεοφιλελέδες ομοϊδεάτες του σε Ευρώπη, ακόμα και σε ΗΠΑ, κάνουν και λίγο τους "ψόφιους κοριούς", για να μην προκαλούν το λαϊκό αίσθημα, παρόλο που στο παρασκήνιο εξακολουθούν να "καβατζώνουν" τα τραπεζοπαράσιτα που συνεχίζουν το πάρτι σε βάρος των κορόιδων, παρά την οικονομική καταστροφή που έσπειραν πριν από περίπου δέκα χρόνια. Τότε που και πάλι, διασώθηκαν από τις πολιτικές τους μαριονέτες με λεφτά των φορολογούμενων. Τούτος εδώ δεν κρατάει ούτε τα προσχήματα. Είναι να αναρωτιέται κανείς. Το κάνει από αφέλεια; από τυφλό φανατισμό; χρωστάει το κόμμα του τόσα πολλά "γραμμάτια"; ή μήπως πρόκειται για μια καραμπινά...