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US government whistleblower Edward Snowden, currently residing in Russia, has confirmed that he would return to the United States if Washington guaranteed him a fair trial. “ I’ve told the government I would return if they would guarantee a fair trial where I can make a public interest defense of why this was done and allow a jury to decide… The United States criticizes me for being in Russia, but at the same time, they won’t let me leave, ” Snowden said Saturday, as quoted by the WMUR9 television channel addressing the New Hampshire Liberty Forum via Skype. In 2013, Snowden started revealing classified documents pertaining to mass surveillance practices carried out by US authorities around the globe. The same year, Russia granted the whistleblower temporary asylum for one year. In August 2014, Snowden received a three-year residence permit to live in Russia. In the United States, he faces up to 30 years in prison on charges of espionage and theft of gove

Ankara has urged Washington to unconditionally support the expansion of its battle against the terror threat, in particular Kurdish militias, warning that those hindering Turkey’s right to self-defense will be considered terrorists and acted upon accordingly. “ The only thing we expect from our US ally is to support Turkey with no ifs or buts, ” Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told a news conference after a five-hour security meeting with cabinet and state officials. Following the car bomb attack on a military convoy in Ankara this week which left 28 people dead, a breakaway faction of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for the attack, and Turkey has vowed to intensify its fight against the Kurds both at home and in Syria. “ If 28 Turkish lives have been claimed through a terrorist attack we can only expect them [the US] to say any threat against Turkey is a threat against them, ” Davutoglu stated. The US howeve

A survivor of Venezuela's 2014 violence spoke out Saturday amid calls from the country's legislators to grant amnesty to those convicted of organizing and inciting the deadly clashes. “ They burned hospitals and health clinics,” said Oscar Carrero, a truck driver who witnessed the events firsthand. Dozens of government-run health clinics were the targets of arson attacks in February and March 2014, when anti-government demonstrators took to the streets to demand the resignation of recently elected President Nicolas Maduro. Internationally, the anti-government demonstrations were widely described as peaceful, though Carrero's experience was anything but. During the protests, Carrero was driving a delivery truck packed with medical supplies when he was attacked by demonstrators. “ They threw nails at the truck. The truck flipped over, and then they started throwing things … rocks, mortar. Then they threw a papita,” he told teleSUR. Papitas

ISDS [investor-state dispute settlement system], is included in thousands of international agreements. It allows companies to sue governments if policy changes – even ones to protect public health or the environment – are deemed to affect their profits. These lawsuits bypass domestic courts and take place before an international tribunal of arbitrators, three private lawyers who decide whether private profits or public interests are more important. Across the world, investor-state tribunals have granted big business billions of dollars from taxpayers’ pockets – often in compensation for public interest measures. Corporate Europe Observatory When the European Commission proposed to include this powerful legal regime for corporations in the trade deal under negotiation with the United States, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership TTIP, this triggered massive opposition: over 97% of a record 150,000 participants rejected such corporate privileges in

In his recent interview at The Press Project , former Greek Minister of Finance, Yanis Varoufakis, stated that the goal of the Troika (ECB, IMF, European Commission), is to transfer the memorandum (the catastrophic neoliberal policies imposed to Greece and others) to Paris! He also referred to the reasons of creating DiEM25, the new pan-European political party, explaining that the problems and the crises are pan-European. He also stated that Social-Democracy has been bankrupted in Europe and that the Left is still under a regime of collective and total defeat. He also said that the target of DiEM25 will be to transform EU - which was created as a cartel - into a space of common benefit and Democracy, because when the corporate capitalism will collapse, it is not certain whether it will be replaced by a humanistic society. Blog's comment: The memorandum will go even to Germany, because this is exactly the model that they want to impose. Therefore

του Τάσου Τσακίρογλου Την ιδέα της «αποικιοποίησης του ανθρώπινου φαντασιακού από την πρόοδο» την έχει αναπτύξει εδώ και χρόνια ο Σερζ Λατούς. Ο Γάλλος φιλόσοφος και οικονομολόγος έχει αναλύσει εκτενώς στα βιβλία του το πώς ο μύθος της αέναης προόδου, η οποία ταυτίζεται αποκλειστικά με την οικονομική μεγέθυνση, έχει εμποτίσει την κοινωνική συνείδηση, συμβάλλοντας αποφασιστικά για δεκαετίες στη γιγάντωση της κατανάλωσης μέσω της διαρκούς επέκτασης της παραγωγής και της διαφήμισης. Στην περίοδο της κρίσης πολλοί είναι εκείνοι που θυμούνται τα χρόνια της ανάπτυξης (και της κατανάλωσης) με ένα αίσθημα νοσταλγίας και μια πίκρα που αφήνει η αίσθηση του χαμένου παραδείσου. Ετσι εξηγείται και το γιατί πολλοί ήταν έτοιμοι να ακούσουν στο παρελθόν ότι «λεφτά υπάρχουν» ή ότι μια αναδιανομή πλούτου είναι εφικτή, αρκεί να τοποθετηθούν οι κατάλληλοι άνθρωποι στην κυβέρνηση. Πρόκειται για μια οιονεί μεταφυσική πίστη που θέλει να αγνοεί τα πραγματικά δεδομένα και αρ

Τον χειμώνα του 2016 φαινόμενο Bernie Sanders συνταράζει την Αμερική αποτελώντας δυνητική ελπίδα για έναν βαθιά σπαρασσόμενο από τους οικονομικούς και θρησκευτικούς φονταμενταλισμούς πλανήτη. Για όσους αντιλαμβάνονται απλουστευτικά την Αμερικάνικη κοινωνία ο Bernie Sanders αποτελεί μια έκπληξη από το πουθενά. Για όσους την γνωρίζουν λίγο βαθύτερα αποτελεί μια ακόμη υπενθύμιση πως οι ΗΠΑ παραμένουν μια μήτρα βαθιών αλλαγών όπου κάθε στιγμή διασταυρώνεται η βαθύτερη συντήρηση με την ελπίδα της πιο ουσιαστικής επανάστασης. της Ελένης Καρασαββίδου Ο νεαρός Bernie Sanders πρωτοεμφανίσθηκε στην πολιτική σκηνή των ΗΠΑ ως φοιτητής συμμετέχοντας στο κίνημα των πολιτικών και κοινωνικών δικαιωμάτων, που άνθισε δυναμικά το 1964. To καλοκαίρι εκείνης της χρονιάς πάνω από 800 φοιτητές από όλα τα πανεπιστήμια των ΗΠΑ πήγαν στον “βαθύ Αμερικάνικο” Νότο για να θέσουν τις γνώσεις τις δράσεις και τα όνειρα τους στην υπηρεσία των φτωχών Αφροαμερικανικών κοινοτήτων. Κάτω από τις π

The Kurdish-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Thursday cut a strategic supply line for the IS between Syria's northern province of al-Raqqa and the Iraqi city of Mosul, a monitor group reported. The SDF cut the IS strategic supply line in the city of Shadadi in Syria's northeastern province of al-Hasakah. The road connects al-Raqqa, the de facto capital of the terror group with its stronghold in Iraq's northern city of Mosul, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The SDF progress in the northeastern province of al-Hasakah, namely the vicinity of the city of Shadadi has enabled them to cut the supply line between Shadadi and Mosul and Shadadi-al-Raqqa. The UK-based watchdog group said the SDF captured on Thursday eight towns from the IS in al-Hasakah, adding that the IS fear of losing Shadadi pushed them to move their families from Shadadi to Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zour, where the enjoy a considerable sway.

Θέλουν το μνημόνιο και η τρόικα να πάνε και στο Παρίσι, τόνισε ο Γιάννης Βαρουφάκης, πρώην υπουργός Οικονομικών, ακαδημαϊκός και ιδρυτικός μέλος του κινήματος Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEΜ25), μιλώντας στην εκπομπή ΕΝΤΟΣ / ΕΚΤΟΣ. Αναφερόμενος στους λόγους ίδρυσης του DiEM25, εξήγησε ότι τα προβλήματα και οι κρίσεις είναι πανευρωπαϊκά, τόνισε ότι η Σοσιαλδημοκρατία στην Ευρώπη έχει χρεοκοπήσει, ενώ για την Αριστερά, σημείωσε ότι βρίσκεται ακόμα υπό καθεστώς συλλογικής και συνολικής ήττας Επιχειρούμε να μετατρέψουμε την ΕΕ, που ιδρύθηκε σαν καρτέλ, σε χώρο κοινής ωφελείας και Δημοκρατίας ανέφερε, προειδοποιώντας για το ότι όταν καταρρεύσει ο κορπορατικός καπιταλισμός δεν είναι βέβαιο πως θα τον αντικαταστήσει μία ανθρωπιστική κοινωνία. “ Εκεί χρειάζεται ένα δημοκρατικό κίνημα, ώστε οι νέες τεχνολογίες να μπουν στην υπηρεσία της αλληλεγγύης και όχι της αποδόμησης ”, είπε χαρακτηριστικά. [...] Για τα μνημόνια, ανέφερε πως “ στόχος είναι η

globinfo freexchange Less than a day after the article As Syrian Kurds gaining ground, Turkey seeks a pretext for invasion published in the blog, a bloody bomb attack occurred in the Turkish capital Ankara, leaving at least 28 dead and 61 injured. Indeed, the Turkish government rushed to blame Syrian Kurds for the attack. From RT : Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has accused forces linked with the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia of the terrorist attack in Ankara on Wednesday. Ankara promised to continue to shell the YPG, with the Syrian Kurds denying all allegations and saying Islamic State is behind the attack. In a live television speech, Prime Minister Davutoglu said Turkey has identified the perpetrator of the Ankara bombing attack as Salih Necer, born in northern Syria's Amuda province in 1992. He added the suspect has links to the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia. Davutoglu added the alleged a