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As thousands of supporters around the world have joined demonstrations in solidarity with Native land and water defenders blocking the planned Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota, the largest Native mobilization in decades remains absent from some of the biggest news media in the United States. Jim Naureckas, editor of the media watchdog site FAIR.org, released a report on Thursday which noted that “ to this day, ABC News and NBC News have yet to broadcast a word about the pipeline struggle. ” Among the “Big Three” television networks, CBS first broached the story on Sept. 5, in “ a lone report on CBS Morning News (9/5/16), amounting to 48 words read at 4 o’clock in the morning, ” although Naureckas found the channel has since “ returned to the story repeatedly. ” While other news channels, including MSNBC, CNN, PBS, and even Fox News, have reported the standoff, none have mentioned Democracy Now! host Amy Good...

Amid a renewed debate about Edward Snowden, Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson said Saturday he would pardon the whistleblower based on his knowledge of the case. In an interview at The Texas Tribune Festival, Johnson, the former New Mexico governor, was deeply skeptical of how the United States is using the kind of intelligence capabilities brought to light by Snowden. Snowden, a former government contractor, faces charges under the Espionage Act for leaking classified information about the National Security Agency to reporters in 2013. “ I would like to see … these satellites turned away from 110 million Verizon users, ” Johnson said. “ I’d like to see the satellites turned away from you and I as U.S. citizens, recognizing that there is due process out there for anyone that’s suspected of crime or harm against the rest of us. ” A new campaign is underway to persuade President Barack Obama to pardon Snowden, the subject of a biographical mov...

It was the seventh trip by my son Frederic and me to the civil war country Syria. We were there for 13 days. Words can only barely describe the extend of damage and suffering on both sides. We conducted the interview ten days ago with a commander of the al-Qaida branch "Jabhat al-Nusra". Abu al-Ezz reported quite openly about his financiers Saudi-Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait. We were able to exactly research the identity of the man and know practically everything about him. The interview was arranged by a rebel from Aleppo. I have had contacts to Syrian rebels for years. It was conducted outside of Aleppo in a quarry in direct sight- and shooting-distance of Jabhat al-Nusra and could only be reached safely by a member of al-Nusra. His fighters were partially not masked, i.e. easily identifiable. Part of his statements were nearly verbally confirmed shortly thereafter by a mufti in Aleppo. Other assertions about the lack of interest of rebels towards ...

No need to watch. Instead, US voters should push the independent media to organize a non-rigged debate between candidates of the US third parties. failed evolution Tonight's first US presidential debate involves two candidates who actually depict emphatically the high degree of the US politics degeneration: deeply pro-establishment, war-thirsty Hillary Clinton, against the reserve of the establishment , racist billionaire Donald Trump. No matter how they act, no matter what they say and what rhetoric they use, they can both be identified, more or less, by the few characteristics above. It would be rather pointless for someone to expect anything better from both. As we approach the day of the US elections, time is running out and the two candidates will naturally focus on one thing: fix their picture to attract more voters and increase their chances to win. As polls show that it will be a tight race, the two will try to attract as many voters as possible from...

The Syrian intelligence possesses an audio recording of conversation between Daesh terrorists and US military prior to the Washington-led coalition's airstrikes on the government troops near Deir ez-Zor on September 17, the speaker of the People's Council of Syria said Monday. [...] US warplanes hit Syrian government troops near the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor on September 17, leaving 62 military personnel killed and a hundred wounded. The Pentagon said initially that the airstrike was a mistake and targeted Daesh militants. [...] The attack on government positions put to test a US-Russia brokered nationwide ceasefire that came into being in Syria earlier that week. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said last Friday it was necessary to separate Daesh terrorists from "moderate" opposition forces in order to salvage the truce. Britain, Australia and Denmark confirmed their air forces' participation in the deadly airstrik...

The Syrian people are suffering under the ‘moderate rebels’ and ‘opposition forces’ backed by the US, NATO member states and their allies in the Gulf states and Israel. Yet their suffering is largely ignored in the mainstream media unless it furthers the agenda dictated by the State Department. This article is the first in a two-part series of one Western journalist’s journey to Aleppo, a city ravaged by an insurgency supported by the United States, NATO member states, and their allies in the Gulf states and Israel. In Part I, Vanessa Beeley lays out the mainstream narrative on Syria, revealing a neoconservative agenda promoted by NATO-funded NGOs. These NGOs paint the destruction of the historic city as being caused by the Syrian government under Bashar Assad, not the violent armed insurgents which receive arms, funding and training from Western governments and their allies. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Aleppo has become synonymous wi...

Il Coordinamento riunisce partiti politici e movimenti popolari che considerano principi non negoziabili la libertà, l’uguaglianza sociale e la fratellanza fra i popoli. Questo è il motivo per cui ci opponiamo alla globalizzazione neoliberista, che si basa sui dogmi opposti del governo dispotico di una élite oligarchica, sul culto della concorrenza selvaggia, sulla crescita delle ingiustizie sociali, sulla soppressione della sovranità nazionale a favore di regimi imperiale. L’Unione europea, con la sua moneta unica, rappresenta il tentativo più avanzato e pericoloso mai messo in atto da queste élite oligarchiche. La crisi irreversibile dell’Unione europea spinge le classi dominanti ad esacerbare le politiche austeritarie e antipopolari. Non c’è modo di riformare questa Unione reazionaria e imperialista. Essa va demolita, sostenendo tutti i movimenti di emancipazione sociale. Il nostro Coordinamento si considera uno spazio aperto per discutere le po...

globinfo freexchange Το πρόγραμμα ποσοτικής χαλάρωσης της Ευρωπαϊκής Κεντρικής Τράπεζας, δημιούργησε μια πλημμύρα ρευστότητας, υποτίθεται για να δημιουργήσει ανάπτυξη και να τονώσει την πραγματική οικονομία. Ωστόσο, φαίνεται ότι με κάποιο τρόπο η ρευστότητα "εξαφανίστηκε". Όπως αναφέρει η ιστοσελίδα gefira.org , μετά από σχεδόν δύο χρόνια ποσοτικής χαλάρωσης, η αύξηση του ΑΕΠ της ευρωζώνης άρχισε να επιβραδύνεται αντί να επιταχύνεται. Σύμφωνα με στοιχεία της ίδιας της ΕΚΤ, για την αύξηση του ΑΕΠ κατά 1 ευρώ απαιτείται να τυπωθούν 18,5 ευρώ μέσω ποσοτικής χαλάρωσης, που σημαίνει ότι 80 δισ. ευρώ σπαταλώνται σε μηνιαία βάση! Η ιστοσελίδα εύλογα αναρωτιέται που πηγαίνουν όλα αυτά τα λεφτά της ποσοτικής χαλάρωσης, καθώς είναι φανερό ότι δεν πηγαίνουν στην πραγματική οικονομία. Το φρεσκοτυπωμένο χρήμα φυσικά δεν εξαφανίζεται, ούτε πρόκειται για κανένα μυστήριο. Η ποσοτική χαλάρωση κατευθύνεται προς το Ευρωπαϊκό τραπεζικό καρτέλ των μεγαλύτερων τραπεζ...

Wikileaks offers £20,000 reward for #LabourLeaks with information on how the Labour Party’s top officials have attempted to stop Jeremy Corbyn becoming and staying on as leader Wikileaks is now moving on to the machinations of top officials in the UK Labour Party to tilt the scales against the membership-elected leader Jeremy Corbyn in favour of his challengers. The first leadership election saw Corbyn win by a landslide in September 2015. Tens of thousands of people, assumed to be Corbyn supporters, were purged from the party and were unable to vote. With the latest leadership election, similar reports have surfaced, with over 3,000 members or supporters - assumed to be predominantly Corbyn supporters - being refused the right to vote for the party leader. Over 1,500 are currently being investigated. On top of this, around one quarter (130,000) of the party membership were disenfranchised when the party’s National Executive Committee disallowed party mem...

Στενές επαφές με την Goldman Sachs διατηρούσε ο Ζοζέ Μανουέλ Μπαρόζο ενώ ήταν πρόεδρος της Κομισιόν. Αυτό αποκαλύπτουν έγγραφα που αποκάλυψε σήμερα η πορτογαλική εφημερίδα Publico. Υπενθυμίζεται ότι ο Μπαρόζο βρίσκεται στο επίκεντρο μεγάλης διαμάχης καθώς προσλήφθηκε από την Goldman Sachs ενώ πριν βρισκόταν στο τιμόνι της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής (2004 - 2014). Οι ιθύνοντες της Goldman Sachs «έδιναν στην ομάδα του Μπαρόζο με τρόπο εμπιστευτικό προτάσεις σχετικά με τις αλλαγές που θα μπορούσαν να υπάρξουν στις πολιτικές της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης» γράφει η εφημερίδα η οποία δημοσιεύει αποσπάσματα από επιστολές και μηνύματα του ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου που έλαβε από την Κομισιόν. Μια υπηρεσιακή αλληλογραφία με ημερομηνία 30 Σεπτεμβρίου του 2013 την οποία υπογράφει ο επικεφαλής της Goldman Sachs, Λόιντ Μπλανκφέιν κάνει λόγο για μια διακριτική επίσκεψη του Μπαρόζο στην έδρα της τράπεζας στη Νέα Υόρκη η οποία, σύμφωνα με την εφημερίδα, δεν συμπεριλαμβανόταν ούτε στη...