the unbalanced evolution of homo sapiens

short comment by failed evolution Many Western Right-Wing/neoliberal media rushed to name the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, who died recently, more or less, a 'brutal dictator'. Right-Wing/neoliberal trolls have flooded social-media with similar words and phrases. In a grotesque, bizarre situation of today's reality, most of this Right-Wing/neoliberal army, praised Margaret Thatcher's legacy when she died. Yet, the 'dictator' Castro built a strong national health system in Cuba for the people, while the neoliberal Maggy did everything to destroy one of the best health care systems in the West, in favor of the private interests. What these Castro haters usually avoid to reveal, is that Castro fought a US-backed dictatorship in Cuba.  That the 'democratic' US empire is responsible for endless dictatorships (and not only in Latin America).  That the US is an authoritarian regime where the bipartisan dictatorship, c

‘ We were living in security and peace. These areas are being targeted, they want to force us to leave. Every Syrian is being targeted,’ one Syrian religious leader told a delegation of reporters who visited Aleppo earlier this month. by Eva Bartlett Part 1 In early November, Fares Shehabi, a member of the Syrian parliament from Aleppo, organized a trip to Aleppo for 13 Western journalists, including myself, with security provided by forces in the Syrian Arab Army. While I had traveled to Aleppo independently as recently as July and August, for many others in the delegation, it was their first visit to the city or their first visit since the war on Syria began in 2011. On previous visits to Aleppo, I met with the Aleppo Medical Association and saw a maternity hospital hit twice by rocket and mortar attacks by militants under Jaysh al-Fatah (the Army of Conquest), a loose alliance of anti-government terrorist groups. I met with members of a branch of t

by Atilio Borón The passing of Fidel causes the heart and the brain fight to control the chaos of feelings and ideas this catalyzes. Memories emerge in a whirlwind and overlap in a mix of images, words, gestures (Fidel’s gestuality was amazing), intonations, irony, and, above all, ideas—many ideas. He was a true follower of José Martí’s ideas. He firmly believed in the precept of the Cuban revolutionary: “trenches of ideas are worth more than trenches of stones”. Undoubtedly, Fidel was a great military strategist—something that he proved not only in the Sierra Maestra battles but also in his careful planification of the great battle of Cuito Cuanavale, which was fought in Angola between December 1987 and March 1988, which precipitated the fall of the racist South African regime and ruined the plans of the US in the southern part of the continent. But he was also an accomplished politician, with a phenomenal ability to interpret national and international

Britain’s intelligence services have officially been given the most wide-ranging and privacy-invading mass surveillance powers in the world, according to critics, after the Investigatory Powers Act became law on Tuesday. The legislation, dubbed the ‘snooper’s charter,’ authorizes the government to hack into devices, networks and services in bulk, and allows for large databases of personal information on UK citizens to be maintained. It requires internet, phone and communication app companies to store customers’ records for 12 months and allow authorities to access them on demand. That data could be anything from internet search history, calls made or messages sent, and will be available to a wide range of agencies, including the Department for Work and Pensions as well as the Food Standards Agency. Security agencies will also be able to force companies to decrypt data, effectively placing limits on the use of end-to-end encryption. More:

Almost two-thirds of Germans are dissatisfied with the current situation in the European Union and want to see changes in the bloc, while about half of them even want to hold a referendum on Germany’s EU membership, a recent survey shows. About 62 percent of German citizens believe that the European Union “ is heading in the wrong direction, ” a survey conducted by the TNS Infratest Politikforschung market research and analysis group says. The survey also shows that 67 percent of Germans want the EU to change its political course. When it comes to what Germans would specifically like to be changed about the EU, an overwhelming majority (about 96 percent) want the bloc to be “ more transparent and closer to the people. ” Only 39 percent of Germans see Germany’s EU membership as a strictly positive thing, while almost half tend to believe that its membership has both significant positive and negative aspects. As many as 42 percent of German citizens in