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A black anniversary: 28 years from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

“ On April 26, 1986, a reactor at the plant, in the then Soviet Union, exploded and caught fire after a safety test went badly wrong. The blast sent radiation billowing across Europe. At first, authorities denied there was a problem. But tens of thousands of inhabitants were evacuated from Prypyat, the town closest to the site, never to return. A 30 km exclusion zone is still in place around the town. Local firefighters and other emergency workers went straight to the scene and in the ensuing days and weeks sought to bring the situation under control. Exposed to high levels of radiation, few of them are alive today. At least 30 people were killed immediately but some put the eventual death toll from radiation exposure at tens or even hundreds of thousands.” http://www.euronews.com/2014/04/26/remembering-the-chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-28-years-on/ ... and other nuclear accidents that remained secret for years: “ America’s worst accident at a

Άλλο ένα δείγμα “αντικειμενικής” πληροφόρησης στην Ελλάδα

... και άλλη μια απόδειξη για τον πραγματικό ρόλο των συστημικών ΜΜΕ την περίοδο της κρίσης  Η πρώην δημοσιογράφος του MEGA, Μαρία Σπυράκη και νυν υποψήφια με την ΝΔ για τις ευρωεκλογές, αποκάλυψε μεταξύ άλλων: “ Η Ελλάδα είχε bank-run την περίοδο ανάμεσα στις εκλογές του Μαίου και του Ιουνίου του '12. Δηλαδή, στην πραγματικότητα, οι άνθρωποι πήγαιναν στις τράπεζες και έπαιρναν τα λεφτά τους. Αυτό, ήταν κάτι που ποτέ δεν θα μπορούσε να πει ένας άνθρωπος στη θέση μου. Δεν μπορούσε δηλαδή να πει ότι μπορούσε να έρθει μια στιγμή που κάποιος θα πήγαινε στην τράπεζα και θα έλεγε 'Καλησπέρα σας, θέλω δέκα χιλιάδες' και θα του έλεγε η τράπεζα 'λυπούμεθα δεν έχουμε', γιατί εκεί θα τελείωναν όλα.” “ Υπήρχε μια διαδικασία η οποία ήταν πολύ οδυνηρή και ήταν η διαδικασία της τροφοδοσίας της Ελλάδας με μετρητά. Έφευγε το αεροπλάνο από την Ελευσίνα, πήγαινε στην Ιταλία και επέστρεφε με μετρητά που πήγαιναν στην Τράπεζα της Ελλάδος και μοιράζονταν στις τράπεζες

Forty years from the defeat of the dictatorship in Portugal

Forty years from the defeat of the fascist dictatorship by Salazar in Portugal. An almost non-blood movement by the Portuguese army which was started in the early hours on April 25th, 1974, and put an end to a brutal dictatorship of nearly half a century in Portugal. The movement went down in history by the name "Carnation Revolution", since thousands of Portuguese people in the streets were encouraging soldiers to unite with the revolutioners by putting a carnation in the barrels of their guns as an indication of peace and reconciliation. Today, Portugal, as well as the rest of the European south countries are under a peculiar neoliberal dictatorship imposed by a Europe which stands very far from its original principles and values to serve the big banks and corporations. The European neoliberal economic empire is imposing for the first time in history, the most brutal measures, not through a military dictatorship, but through an economic war and the

Black anniversary

April 21st 1967: Military junta in Greece backed by the US On April 21st 1967, a group of colonels will oust democratic government under Panagiotis Kanellopoulos administration to take power, claiming that Greece was under the “Communist danger”. Seven years of brutality, terror, tortures, political persecutions, exiles, will follow. The junta will end in 1974 with the biggest tragedy: Turkish invasion in northern Cyprus, a Kissinger-type plan from the US. The seven-year junta will leave its marks in future generations and the psychosynthesis of modern Greeks. In the post-civil war Greece, mainly during 50s, 60s and 70s, interceptions of citizens from para-state agents and all kinds of informers had become a routine. Indeed, the Greeks who lived during that time have plenty, often grotesque, stories to tell around this issue. This phenomenon, which peaked during the seven years of junta, has influenced Greek society in such a degree that even today, even t

US failures leading to US self-destruction

An interview with the Voice of Russia by Joseph Zrnchik, a retired US military planner and trainer Key parts “ [US foreign policy] is schizophrenic because on one hand they are attacking different various groups, and then on the other hand they start assisting the same groups that they are attacking, and it makes no sense and it doesn't advance US interests at all, when you attack Al-Qaeda and then you fund Al-Qaeda. That is just the case there. Same thing in Syria: you work to destabilize the government and then support the CIA to attack Syria, and then the same groups that attack Syria, you sit back and go 'Oh, my God, what were we thinking? It looks like these Jihadists are winning, so we need to start backing off'.” “ We have had a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Iraq fiasco has just been disastrous, I mean if you are looking at it from an advantage of what the US was trying to accomplish, it totally failed in the war. There i