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The US has imposed sanctions on 30 foreign companies or individuals for transferring sensitive technology to Iran for its missile program or for violating export controls on Iran, North Korea and Syria, the State Department said on Friday. Eleven companies or individuals from China, North Korea or the United Arab Emirates were sanctioned for technology transfers that could boost Tehran’s ballistic missile program, the State Department said. Nineteen entities or individuals were sanctioned for other violations under the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nonproliferation Act. They are believed to have transferred or acquired sensitive technology that could contribute to development of weapons of mass destruction. https://www.rt.com/news/line/

As millions suffer from hunger, disease, illiteracy and grinding poverty in the Lake Chad region of West Africa, a sinister game of resource extraction and exploitation is playing out, with geopolitics at the heart of it all. by Eric Draitser Part 3 - A Humanitarian Crisis and a Resource War Sadly, most humanitarian crises in the world stem from politics and greed; the human tragedy unfolding in the Lake Chad region is no different. At the heart of the issue is oil. In recent years, oil discoveries throughout the Lake Chad Basin have transformed how the states of West Africa view their economic future. At the heart of the basin is Lake Chad, surrounded by the countries of Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Niger. According to a 2010 assessment from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Chad Basin has “ estimated mean volumes of 2.32 billion barrels of oil, 14.65 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 391 million barrels of natural gas liquids. ” The potential size

Tsipras will be defeated one more time, unless he threaten seriously with Grexit globinfo freexchange The Greek government is about to make one more attempt to show some resistance against the latest demands of the Troika (IMF, ECB, European Commission). After seven years of orchestrated economic destruction and one open financial coup by the ECB, Greece is experiencing another wave of huge pressure by its creditors to implement the last details of the brutal neoliberal experiment. The last demands concern the complete dissolution of labor rights and privatizing big parts of the Public Power Corporation in the energy sector. The Greek PM, Alexis Tsipras, is about to make another attempt to resist, by bringing on table the forgotten social values of Europe, especially concerning the labor rights. As Reuters reports: EU officials said on Thursday they were hopeful Greece would drop its eleventh-hour objections to a declaration marking the bloc

Συνέντευξη με αναφορές στην Ελλάδα παραχώρησε στην Τageszeitung η Γκεζίνε Σβαν, ιστορικό στέλεχος του SPD, καθηγήτρια Πολιτικής Θεωρίας στο Ελεύθερο Πανεπιστήμιο του Βερολίνου και σημαίνουσα προσωπικότητα της γερμανικής αριστερής διανόησης. « Πιστεύω ότι ο ελληνικός λαός δεν θα το βάλει κάτω. Η πολιτική της γερμανικής κυβέρνησης ζημίωσε έντονα την Ελλάδα », λέει χαρακτηριστικά ρίχνοντας στη συνέχεια τα βέλη της προς τον υπ. Οικονομικών Βόλφγκανγκ Σόιμπλε. « Ο Σόιμπλε δεν έχει μια λογική, οικονομική προοπτική για τη χώρα. Αυτό που τον ενδιαφέρει είναι να ανατρέψει τον ΣΥΡΙΖΑ. Αυτό ήθελε πάντα και συνεχίζει να το θέλει. Οι πράξεις του είναι βαθιά ιδεολογικές. Για το λόγο αυτό το φθινόπωρο πρέπει να πετύχουμε μια κυβερνητική αλλαγή στη Γερμανία ». Αναφορικά με το αν βλέπει προσεχώς επανάληψη του καλοκαιριού του 2015, η Γκεζίνε Σβαν λέει σχετικά: « Θεωρητικά, ναι. Αλλά οι φόβοι για τη διάσπαση της ίδιας της Ευρώπης, ιδίως μετά την απόφαση της Μ. Βρετανίας για το

Tachira — where the paramilitary camp was discovered — was also the region where the government found a large cache of Venezuelan currency in December. Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Armed Forces, FANB, dismantled a right-wing paramilitary camp near the Colombian border Tuesday, discovering U.S. army uniforms, among others. The FANB also discovered stolen Venezuelan military uniforms as well as combat attire belonging to the Colombian military forces. “ We are advancing an investigation, ” Tachira Governor Jose Gregorio Vielma Mora said at a press conference, according to HispanTV. “ We found accounting books with a list of victims of extortion on the site. ” Right-wing Colombian paramilitaries are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Colombians since the 1950s. Usually targeted are campesinos, Indigenous people, Afro-Colombians, human rights activists and those sympathetic to Colombia’s leftist guerrilla movements and Venezuela’s Bol