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globinfo freexchange When you recruit one of the most famous Hollywood actors to attack Russia through a sloppy and obsolete type of propaganda, it shows - above all - that you are desperate to provoke a conflict. Despite zero evidence about the alleged 'Russian intervention' (whatever that means) in the latest US elections, the US sinister syndicate of for-profit-wars continues to cultivate a Cold War 2.0 climate with the ultimate target to drag Russia into a warm conflict. In a desperate effort to persuade the US public opinion about the 'Russian intervention', this evil syndicate created the known video with Morgan Freeman to make Americans believe that Russia is a real threat. We don't know where to start: from the Cold War language very similar to the McCarthyism era? from the fairytale-style narrative as if it has been made for 10-year old kids? from the fact that the creators of the video apparently believe that they have to fac

Gary Rivlin, Michael Hudson Part 5 - THE VAMPIRE SQUID Goldman Sachs repaid repaid its $10 billion bailout partway through 2009, less than 12 months after the loan was made. Other banks in the U.S. and abroad were still struggling but not Goldman, which reported a record $19.8 billion in pre-tax profits that year, and $12.9 billion the next. Gary Cohn went without a bonus in 2008, left to scrape by on his $600,000 salary. Once free of government interference, the Goldman board (which included Cohn himself) paid him a $9 million bonus in 2009 and an $18 million bonus in 2010. Yet the once venerated firm was now the subject of jokes on the late-night talk shows. David Letterman broadcast a “Goldman Sachs Top 10 Excuses” list (No. 9: “You’re saying ‘fraud’ like it’s a bad thing.”). Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi described the bank as “ a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money, ” a

του Κλάουντιο Κατς Μέρος 5ο - Οι σοσιαλδημοκρατικές θέσεις Τους τελευταίους μήνες επίσης, μεταξύ των αντιπάλων της Δεξιάς παρατηρήθηκε μια αύξηση των απόψεων που κατηγορούν τον Μαδούρο για την οδύνη της Βενεζουέλας. Αυτές οι απόψεις επαναλαμβάνουν την παλιά σοσιαλδημοκρατική συμπεριφορά: συμπαράταξη με την αντίδραση στις κρίσιμες στιγμές. Οι φορείς αυτών των απόψεων αμφισβητούν τη νομιμότητα της κυβέρνησης χρησιμοποιώντας τα ίδια επιχειρήματα με την αντιπολίτευση. Αντί να κατηγορούν τη CIA, τους escuálidos [βενεζουελάνικος χαρακτηρισμός για τους εξαχρειωμένους πλούσιους] ή τον ΟΑΣ, θέτουν στο επίκεντρό τους την εναντίωση στον τσαβισμό. Το κάνουν δε στο όνομα ενός δημοκρατικού ιδεώδους που είναι τόσο αφηρημένο όσο και διαχωρισμένο από τη μάχη που καθορίζει ποιος θα επικρατήσει στη διοίκηση του κράτους. Αυτές οι θέσεις έχουν επηρεάσει πολλούς και ποικίλους διανοητές της «κριτικής Αριστεράς» [pensadores del post-progresismo –διανοητές του μετα-προοδευτισμού] που

The WIKILEAKS Public Library of US Diplomacy (PlusD) holds the world's largest searchable collection of United States confidential, or formerly confidential, diplomatic communications. As of April 8, 2013 it holds 2 million records comprising approximately 1 billion words. The collection covers US involvements in, and diplomatic or intelligence reporting on, every country on earth. It is the single most significant body of geopolitical material ever published. The PlusD collection, built and curated by WikiLeaks, is updated from a variety of sources, including leaks, documents released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and documents released by the US State Department systematic declassification review. globinfo freexchange A cable back in June 2004 that appears to be originated from the US Embassy in Caracas, express the deep concerns of the US officials about the strong potentiality of the Venezuelan state-owned oil and natural gas company (

The 100,000-ton US Navy supercarrier ‘Ronald Reagan’ has conducted drills with Japanese warships south of the Korean Peninsula, Japan's military said. Pyongyang, meanwhile, has threatened a further “hydrogen bomb test” over the Pacific. The Japan Maritime Self Defense Force said in a statement on Friday that the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered supercarrier ‘Ronald Reagan,’ based in the Japanese town of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, and its escort ships have been holding drills with Japanese Navy vessels in waters south and west of Japan's main islands since September 11. The strike group is also set to stage a separate drill with the South Korean Navy in October, the Defense Ministry added. The large-scale drill will involve three Japanese warships, including two destroyers and one of the country's two biggest helicopter carriers, and will run until the end of the month. On Friday, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho said that Pyongyang is

The UN humanitarian chief says the World Food Program delivered emergency food to a record 7 million people across conflict-wracked Yemen in August, “helping to avert potential famine.” Mark Lowcock told a high-level event on Yemen on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly’s ministerial meeting Friday that this represents a 60 percent increase from the average of 4.4 million people who received food assistance in the first six months of the year. The increase was partially a result of much higher imports in July. Despite the delivery, Lowcock said Yemen “ is facing the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with nearly 21 million people in need of emergency aid or protection, ” most of them children. He said the threat of famine still looms. https://www.rt.com/news/line/ Related: Saudi Arabia, US and Britain "celebrate" 900 days of slaughter in Yemen

With the Greek psyche itself the victim of a relentless shaming campaign, the idea of Greece “going it alone” begins to seem outlandish and quixotic. It is not. But it is as much tied to a revival of spirit and self-esteem as to the nuts and bolts of economic transformation. by Michael Nevradakis Part 1 Eight years into the deepest economic depression that an industrialized country has ever experienced, we are now being told that Greece is a “success story.” Having accepted the “bitter medicine” prescribed by the “troika”—the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund—the storyline today is that Greece is on the road to recovery, firmly within the European Union and the eurozone. This narrative was recently echoed by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in his annual speech at the Thessaloniki Trade Fair, Greece’s equivalent to the State of the Union address. In this speech, Tsipras triumphantly declared that talk of

Gary Rivlin, Michael Hudson Part 4 - THE BIG SHORT People inside Goldman Sachs were growing nervous. It was the fall of 2006 and, as Daniel Sparks, the Goldman partner overseeing the firm’s 400-person mortgage trading department, wrote in an email to several colleagues, “Subprime market getting hit hard.” The firm had lent millions to New Century, a mortgage lender dealing in the higher-risk subprime market. And now New Century was late on payments. Sparks could see that the wobbly housing market was having an impact on his department. For 10 consecutive trading days, his people had lost money. The dollar amounts were small to a behemoth like Goldman: between $5 million and $30 million a day. But the trend made Sparks jittery enough to share his concerns with the Goldman’s top executives: President Gary Cohn; David Viniar, the firm’s chief financial officer; and CEO Lloyd Blankfein. Sparks, a Cohn protégé, was running the mortgage desk that his mentor, only a few ye

του Κλάουντιο Κατς Μέρος 4ο - Η στάση της Αριστεράς Εάν η διάγνωση ότι επιδιώκεται αντιδραστικό πραξικόπημα είναι ορθή, η θέση της Αριστεράς δεν θα έπρεπε να δίνει αφορμές για διαφωνίες. Οι κατ’ εξοχήν εχθροί μας είναι η Δεξιά και ο ιμπεριαλισμός και η σύγκρουση μαζί τους πάντα αποτελεί προτεραιότητα. Αυτή η στοιχειώδης αρχή πρέπει να επιβεβαιώνεται σε κρίσιμες εποχές , όταν το προφανές μπορεί να θολώνει. Όποια κριτική κι αν ασκούσε κανείς στον Σαλβαδόρ Αλιέντε, η βασική μάχη μας ήταν ενάντια στον Πινοτσέτ. Παρόμοια, υιοθετήσαμε μια αντίστοιχη γραμμή απέναντι στους ακραίους συντηρητικούς (επονομαζόμενους «γορίλες») της Αργεντινής, το 1955, ή σ’ αυτούς που σαμποτάριζαν τους Άρμπενζ, Τορίχος και πολλές άλλες αντιιμπεριαλιστικές κυβερνήσεις στην περιοχή. Σε σχέση με τη Βενεζουέλα σήμερα, αυτή η αρχή υποδεικνύει την ανάγκη για κοινή δράση κατά της κλιμάκωσης που επιδιώκει η Δεξιά σε όλες τις παραλλαγές της. Όταν στον ορίζοντα διαφαίνεται ένα πραξικόπημα, είναι α

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