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The leading cryptocurrency bitcoin once again passed the $15,000 mark on Tuesday. It has been recovering from last week's sell-off, which sent prices below $11,000 after the $20,000 record. Bitcoin was trading at $15,500 on Tuesday, up almost nine percent. Its market cap reached $260 billion with its share of the cryptocurrency market sliding to 44 percent, according to Coinmarketcap. “ There is no right current price which would reflect the right current valuation, ” cryptocurrency expert Andrei Popescu told Reuters. “ Taking profit is right while buying into a long-term projection is also right. You don’t have to be right in this market, just less wrong than the rest, ” Popescu said. Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Julian Hosp has predicted bitcoin will reach a new record high, but not before another price crash. " I think we're going to see bitcoin hitting the $60,000 mark, but I also think we're going to see bitcoin hitting the $5,000 mar...

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s grandiose performance in front of the UN on December 15 should send shivers down the spines of those who remember Colin Powell’s equally disturbing performance in the months leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. This is just the beginning of the a new media campaign against Iran with regime change as the end goal. by Darius Shahtahmasebi Part 3 - US war in Syria was about destabilizing Iran and it failed Iran and Syria are stalwart allies. The two countries have a mutual defense agreement and Iran has been honouring its side of the agreement throughout the course of the Syrian war. Whether Washington is openly keen to admit it or not, the U.S. has lost the war in Syria. There is very little the United States can do inside Syria unless it is prepared to directly take on Syria and Russia’s air defenses and to wipe out Russian military personnel on the ground, paving the way for what can only be described as World War III. Wash...

Almost three years have passed since Saudi Arabia announced it was intervening militarily, with its allies, in Yemen, to remove the Houthis (officially called Ansar Allah) from power after they had taken over the capital. Western analysts saw it as a bold move from recently-empowered (deputy) crown prince Mohammad bin Salman (MbS), weapons manufacturers and their political representatives were delighted. But what had been predicted as a swift military operation has turned into a humiliating stalemate. Unable to impose its will by force, Saudi Arabia and its bold prince have resorted to war crimes and collective punishment, imposing a humanitarian catastrophe on the Yemeni people. by Ricardo Vaz Part 3 - War, what is it good for? Articles no longer wonder what this war is even about, and why it continues. Impunity on the global stage usually comes hand in hand with indifference in the media. For one, beyond the lucrative weapons dealing, it is a matter of ...

When you have the monopoly of information you can literally transform people's minds. You can make them believe whatever you want. You can even reverse reality toward the narrative you have built to promote the desirable agenda for your bosses. globinfo freexchange In 1957, BBC conducted a very interesting experiment. The spaghetti-tree hoax was a three-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama, purportedly showing a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the family "spaghetti tree". At the time spaghetti was relatively little known in the UK, so that many Britons were unaware that it is made from wheat flour and water; a number of viewers afterwards contacted the BBC for advice on growing their own spaghetti trees. Decades later, CNN called this broadcast " the biggest hoax that any reputable news establishment ever pulled ". This 'innocent' farce...

The collusion circus is coming for Jill Stein. The US Senate Intelligence Committee has asked the 2016 Green Party presidential candidate to hand over documents amid accusations she was part of a Russian plot to elect Trump. The news was met with delight by some pro-Hillary Clinton Democrats who have long expressed a visceral hatred of Stein simply because she had the audacity to run for president — an act which they say hurt their candidate’s chances of winning by unnecessarily splitting the vote on the left. In the greatest democracy in the world (supposedly) Stein committed the unforgivable sin of running for office and winning some votes. There can only be one explanation for this, the ‘Russiagaters’ say: Stein was a Russian plant, designed to pull votes away from Clinton to tip the election in Trump’s favor. In their increasingly warped minds, nothing else could possibly make sense. Never mind that Stein also ran for president in 2012, ran for governor in...

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s grandiose performance in front of the UN on December 15 should send shivers down the spines of those who remember Colin Powell’s equally disturbing performance in the months leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. This is just the beginning of the a new media campaign against Iran with regime change as the end goal. by Darius Shahtahmasebi Part 2 - Pursuing Iran through indirect means We have often witnessed a one-sided media coverage of the Iranian government, which has constantly demonized Iran as an aggressive player in the region, hell-bent on destroying America’s stalwart ally, Israel. However — given that the U.S. failed to convincingly substantiate similar accusations against Iraq but invaded the country anyway in 2003, plunging the region into a humanitarian catastrophe — Washington’s credibility on the world stage has been questioned and its ability to develop international support for a strike on Iran has demonstrably failed...

Almost three years have passed since Saudi Arabia announced it was intervening militarily, with its allies, in Yemen, to remove the Houthis (officially called Ansar Allah) from power after they had taken over the capital. Western analysts saw it as a bold move from recently-empowered (deputy) crown prince Mohammad bin Salman (MbS), weapons manufacturers and their political representatives were delighted. But what had been predicted as a swift military operation has turned into a humiliating stalemate. Unable to impose its will by force, Saudi Arabia and its bold prince have resorted to war crimes and collective punishment, imposing a humanitarian catastrophe on the Yemeni people. by Ricardo Vaz Part 2 - Western outrage and responsibility As the Syrian army moved to re-take eastern Aleppo, a monumental PR campaign saw people who had never bothered before rise up from their Starbucks couches to proclaim that humanity had lost its ways. One day, hopefully, people will w...

globinfo freexchange Tax historian Josh Mound speaks about the disastrous more-tax-cuts-for-the-plutocracy bill passed by Trump administration. Key points: This Republican tax bill will produce the greatest upward redistribution of income since at least the 1920s. The Republican tax bill is a class war. Corporations and the very rich win and average Americans lose. But it didn't work in 1980s and it didn't work in the 2000s. Republicans know it won't work now either, that's why they are already proposing to fix the budget problems caused by their tax cuts for the rich by cutting Social Security, Medicare and food stamps . That means average Americans will lose twice from the Republican tax bill. Once, when Republicans cut taxes for the rich and a second time when Republicans pay for those tax cuts by cutting vital programs for everyone else. History tells us that the only thing the GOP tax cuts will produce is an increased in ...

Η οικονομολόγος Πασκουαλίνα Κούρτσιο έχει περάσει τα τελευταία χρόνια της ζωής της καταρρίπτοντας τους μύθους που κυκλοφορούν στα διεθνή μέσα ενημέρωσης για την οικονομία της Βενεζουέλας. Τη βρήκαμε στο Καράκας… δίπλα στα γυαλιά του Σαλβαδόρ Αλιέντε. του Άρη Χατζηστεφάνου Τη συνάντησα στην είσοδο του υπουργείου Εξωτερικών, όπου ετοιμαζόταν να δώσει μια διάλεξη για τις επιπτώσεις του αμερικανικού εμπάργκο στην οικονομία της Βενεζουέλας. Με περίμενε δίπλα σε ένα γλυπτό που αναπαριστά τα σπασμένα γυαλιά οράσεως του Σαλβαδόρ Αλιέντε –από την «11η Σεπτεμβρίου της Χιλής», όταν ο Πινοσέτ βομβάρδισε το προεδρικό μέγαρο στο Σαντιάγκο. Στο μυαλό μου ηχούσε η διαβόητη εντολή που είχε δώσει ο πρόεδρος Νίξον στη CIA, μόλις ο Αλιέντε ανέλαβε τα καθήκοντά του: «Κάντε την οικονομία να ουρλιάξει». Και η οικονομία ουρλιάζει σήμερα στη Βενεζουέλα. Μπορεί τα ράφια των σούπερ μάρκετ να μην είναι άδεια, όπως συνηθίζουν να τα παρουσιάζουν τα διεθνή ΜΜΕ, αλλά ορισμένες ελλ...

Την ανάγκη επίτευξης συνολικής, δίκαιης, σταθερής και βιώσιμης λύσης του Κυπριακού, τονίζει ο υπουργός Εξωτερικών της Ρωσικής Ομοσπονδίας, Σεργκέι Λαβρόφ. Σε συνέντευξη στην εφημερίδα "Η ΣΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ", ο Σ. Λαβρόφ διαβεβαιώνει ότι παραμένει αναλλοίωτη η θέση αρχής της Ρωσίας στο Κυπριακό, τονίζοντας ότι στόχος είναι η αποκατάσταση της Κύπρου, υπό τη μορφή ενός ανεξάρτητου, κυρίαρχου και εδαφικά ακέραιου και ενωμένου κράτους, που θα ανταποκρίνεται στα συμφέροντα των ιδίων των Κυπρίων. Μια τέτοια εξέλιξη, προσθέτει, «θα αποτελέσει το "κλειδί" για τη διασφάλιση της ειρήνης και της ασφάλειας στην Ανατολική Μεσόγειο». Ο Σ. Λαβρόφ χαρακτηρίζει απαράδεκτες τις προσπάθειες έξωθεν επιβολής έτοιμων αποφάσεων και τεχνητών χρονοδιαγραμμάτων και υποδεικνύει ότι το Συμβούλιο Ασφαλείας των Ηνωμένων Εθνών αποτελεί τη μόνη οδό για την εξεύρεση ενός συστήματος ασφάλειας στην Κύπρο. Τονίζει, επίσης, ότι οι διεθνείς πτυχές του Κυπριακού, πρέπει να συζητη...