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globinfo freexchange Democracy Now spoke with journalist Tim Shorrock, who recently returned from South Korea. Shorrock revealed that as recently as two years ago, North Korea actually made an effort to find common ground with the United States, offering to put a moratorium on its program if the Unites States would proceed in peace talks towards the official termination of the Korean War. Here is what he said: Why are we going to war, why are we threatening war, when we haven’t even attempted talks with North Korea? I think, you talk to anybody who is an expert, who’s been around the region, who’s actually negotiated with North Koreans, there is plenty of room, plenty of flexibility, to talk to North Korea. And there are certainly, proposals, that North Korea itself has made, as recently as 2015, two years ago, when they said they would put a moratorium on their program if the United States would start opening talks about a peace treaty to end the

globinfo freexchange It appears that the brave Portugal defied the recipe of austerity and sado-monetarism imposed by the Troika of destruction (IMF, ECB, European Commission) that ruined the Greek economy after seven years of savage implementation. As the Economist reported on April:            In 2016, according to figures released on March 24th, his government cut the budget deficit by more than half to just under 2.1% of GDP (see chart), the lowest since Portugal’s transition to democracy in 1974. His administration restored state pensions, wages and working hours to pre-bail-out levels, and also brought the deficit well under the 2.5% target set for it by the European Union. It is the first time that Portugal has complied with the euro zone’s fiscal rules. Furthermore, the Portuguese government has just decided even to increase slightly the low pensions. As The Portugal News reports:            An extraordinary increase in payments t

Craziness, cynicism, audacity, and hypocrisy, reached record levels for the US imperialists under Trump presidency after the new direct threat against Venezuela this time. As RT reported: The crisis in Venezuela could prompt a US military response, President Donald Trump has told reporters. The Pentagon, however, has reportedly not been directed on any such plans. On Friday, Trump appeared outside his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, alongside Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, where he told reporters that he had “many options” for responding to the Venezuelan crisis. “ The people are suffering and they are dying. We have many options for Venezuela including a possible military option if necessary, ” Trump said, according to Reuters. Trump called Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro a “dictator” and blamed him for the humanitarian situation in the country. Trump did not elaborate as to whether American troops would be

Στο ενδεχόμενο ανάληψης στρατιωτικής δράσης εναντίον της Βενεζουέλας αναφέρθηκε ο πρόεδρος των ΗΠΑ. « Έχουμε πολλές επιλογές για την Βενεζουέλα και παρεμπιπτόντως δεν πρόκειται να αποκλείσω την ανάληψη στρατιωτικής δράσης » δήλωσε ο Ντόναλντ Τραμπ και συμπλήρωσε ότι οι ΗΠΑ διαθέτουν στρατεύματα σε ολόκληρο τον κόσμο. Ο ίδιος απέφυγε να διευκρινίσει εάν θα πρόκειται για επίθεση από συμμαχία χωρών ή εάν θα πραγματοποιηθεί μόνο από τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες. Ο Εκπρόσωπος Τύπου του Πενταγώνου δήλωσε ότι μέχρι τη στιγμή που έγιναν οι δηλώσεις Τραμπ, δεν είχαν λάβει καμία σχετική εντολή από το Λευκό Οίκο σχετικά με τη Βενεζουέλα. Υπενθυμίζεται ότι πριν από μερικές εβδομάδες ο διευθυντής της CIA είχε αναφερθεί σε επαφές που είχε με αξιωματούχους στην Κολομβία και το Μεξικό, με αντικείμενο την ανατροπή του προέδρου Μαδούρο. Οι πρόεδροι Τσάβες και Μαδούρο έχουν κατηγορήσει τις ΗΠΑ για τη διοργάνωση του αποτυχημένου πραξικοπήματος του 2002 ενώ απόρρητα έγγρα

by Ramiro S. Fúnez Part 1 If you’ve been following international news in recent years, you know that two countries, in particular, have served as punching bags for establishment pundits: Venezuela and Syria. Sure, other countries on mainstream media’s target list — including Russia, China, Cuba, Iran and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) — have also been persistently bombarded with hit pieces. But then these sovereign nations have always been under attack since declaring their independence from Washington’s imperialist grip. What distinguishes recent corporate news attacks against Venezuela and Syria from media treatment of the countries mentioned above, however, is the role of their respective Western-backed opposition “movements.” Claiming to fight for “democracy” and “freedom,” protesters from both countries have participated in violent actions aimed at overthrowing their democratically-elected governments — Venezuela since 2014 and Syria si