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Russia’s state-funded news network, RT, is apparently now sponsoring ads in a Moscow airport targeting Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party. Images of the signs, posted on Reddit over the weekend, come as the mainstream media continues to push the notion that Russia intervened in the 2016 election on behalf of Donald Trump. “ Missed a plane? Lost an election? Blame it on us!” says one of the ads, alluding to the fact that in terms of seats in Washington, D.C., the Democrat Party was decimated in 2016. “ The longer you watch, the more upset Hillary Clinton becomes,” says another ad. And a third, which reads “Come closer and find out who we are planning to hack next,” clearly references the notion that Russia was behind the hacking of the Democratic National Convention networks. To date, no hard evidence has been put forth proving that Russia colluded with Donald Trump and his team, and both Trump and President Vladimir Putin have denied that any conspi

Millions of Yemenis are starving as Saudi Arabia continues to bomb the country, while the people of Gaza lack electricity and medical supplies due to a 10-year Israeli blockade. Both conflicts and the crises they have unleashed are tied to the U.S.’ arms industry’s unending pursuit of profit. by Whitney Webb Part 1 While the mainstream media is dominated by anti-Russia headlines and the upcoming health care vote in the Senate, its silence on two of the greatest humanitarian crises in the world, Yemen and Gaza, is deafening. These crises have received little to none of the media attention that was showered last year on the battle for Aleppo in Syria or the attention currently being given to the political crisis in Venezuela. However, the situations in these two areas are growing worse by the day. In Yemen – less than three years following the launch of the Saudi-led war against the Yemeni people – 7 million people face starvation, nearly 70 percent of the popula

You could call the men and women at Viome factory workers, but that wouldn’t be the half of it. Try instead: some of the bravest people I’ve ever met. Or: organisers of one of the most startling social experiments in contemporary Europe. And: a daily lesson from Greece to Brexit Britain, both in how we work and how we do politics. At the height of the Greek crash in 2011, staff at Viome clocked in to confront an existential quandary. The owners of their parent company had gone bust and abandoned the site, in the second city of Thessaloniki. From here, the script practically wrote itself: their plant, which manufactured chemicals for the construction industry, would be shut. There would be immediate layoffs, and dozens of families would be plunged into poverty. And seeing as Greece was in the midst of the greatest economic depression ever seen in the EU, the workers’ chances of getting another job were close to nil. So they decided to occupy their own plant. No

Ένα διθυραμβικό κείμενο για το εγχείρημα της αυτοδιαχείρισης στο εργοστάσιο της ΒΙΟΜΕ, παρουσιάζει η εφημερίδα Guardian με την υπογραφή του βασικού αναλυτή οικονομικών θεμάτων, Αντίτια Τσακραμπόρτι. Πως θα αντεπεξέλθουμε εάν καταρρεύσει ο καπιταλισμός, αναρωτιέται ο Τσακραμπόρτι, για να δώσει αμέσως την απάντηση αναφερόμενος στους εργάτες που διατηρούν ζωντανό το εργοστάσιο – « ορισμένους από τους πιο γενναίους ανθρώπους που έχω γνωρίσει », όπως λέει χαρακτηριστικά. Η εφημερίδα παρουσιάζει την ιστορία της αυτοδιαχείρισης και την οριζόντια διοίκηση του εργοστασίου, όπου κανένας δεν είναι αφεντικό. « Mεσήλικες που συνήθιζαν να ακούν τα αφεντικά τους να ουρλιάζουν διαταγές (σαν σκυλιά) πήραν τον έλεγχο του χώρου εργασίας και της ίδιας της επαγγελματικής τους ζωής ». Ο Τσακραμπόρτι αναφέρεται ακόμη στην βοήθεια που προσέφεραν οι εργαζόμενοι στην τοπική κοινωνία βοηθώντας πρόσφυγες και μετανάστες αλλά και μέσω του κοινωνικού ιατρείου. Αυτούς τους ανθρώ

globinfo freexchange The chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Martin Schulz, made recently a quite surprising statement concerning the German minister of finance, Wolfgang Schauble, and Greece:           "Schauble is largely responsible for imposing the 13th pension cut. And while thousands of families are plunging ever deeper into poverty, Schauble records at the same time big profits from the interest paid by Greece for aid loans," said the social democrat chancellor Martin Schulz during presentation of his positions in view of September's elections ... After seven years of orchestrated destruction against Greece by the neoliberal priesthood, suddenly, Martin Schulz decided to adopt what the establishment apparatus could name today as 'populist' rhetoric . Does that gives the signal to the social democrats around Europe to make a turn of 180 degrees? Probably yes, and it could be explained in many ways.