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globinfo freexchange The Turkish military has shelled and bombarded Syrian Kurdish positions in northern Syria for a fifth day, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to extend the offensive east of the city of Manbij . Turkey on Saturday launched the operation in the Afrin region to clear it of US-backed Kurdish fighters, seen by Ankara as a threat to its security. Despite that ISIS has been almost eliminated in the Middle East, Erdogan continues his own agenda with the primary target to crush Kurdish resistance and destroy the US plans for an autonomous Kurdish state. An internal Stratfor document - through WikiLeaks - from the beginning of 2011, gives significant details for the Turkish Hezbollah to the point that it could be considered Erdogan's proxy army in the Middle East. As described: Senior members of Turkish Hezbollah were released on Jan. 5 after spending ten years in jail. Their release came as a result of an amendment to the

The Iranian Intelligence Ministry said in a Wednesday statement that in one operation, security forces discovered no less than 23 remote controlled bombs that terrorists were going to use in order to wreak havoc in the eastern parts of the country. Terrorists had managed to carry the bombs over Iran's eastern borders and sneak them into the country using help from Saudi intelligence agencies, according to the statement. The ministry said another shipment of explosives complete with bomb-making equipment were seized from a terrorist group in the western province of Kordestan. The materials, captured from a "separatist" militant group in the border town of Mariwan, included military-grade material such as TNT, C4, explosive kits and electronic charges. The statement did not reveal further details about the identities of the terrorists or their possible targets. Saudi officials have on several occasions made open calls for instability

The PayPal-offshoot Becomes a Weapon in the War Against Whistleblowers and WikiLeaks. The Palantir document notes that most well-known journalistic professionals “with a liberal bent . . .if pushed will choose professional preservation over cause, such is the mentality of most business professionals.” WikiLeaks, the transparency organization known for publishing leaked documents that threaten the powerful, finds itself under pressure like never before, as does its editor-in-chief, Julian Assange. Now the fight to silence WikiLeaks is not only being waged by powerful government figures but also by the media, including outlets and organizations that have styled themselves as working to protect whistleblowers. Pierre Omidyar – eBay billionaire and PayPal’s long-time owner – holds considerable sway over several journalists and organizations that once championed WikiLeaks but now work for the Omidyar-owned publication, The Intercept. Thanks to his deep ties to the U.S. gov

by Leeann Hall On January 11, the Trump administration issued a cruel announcement: If you can’t find a job, don’t count on being able to get health care. Under an unprecedented new policy, the administration will let states kick people off Medicaid for the crime of being unemployed. Instead of providing good jobs to struggling people, the administration is offering threats and tougher times. Those hurt could include the Carrier plant workers from Indiana, whose jobs Trump promised to save when he was campaigning for the presidency. Last year, the company announced 600 layoffs. Now the last of these employees are being pushed out the door. One worker says she’s “a lost paycheck away from homeless.” Imagine telling her Medicaid won’t be there for her on top of everything else she’ll lose. The heartlessness is incomprehensible. Still, her state’s governor is one of ten that’s jumping on the administration’s new proposal to require work or wor

Foreshadowed by his roots and bottle-rocket-like rise, Barack Obama’s legacy is one of betrayal and what might have been,… From the outset, he courted and was courted by the pillars of counter-revolution, his very blackness a cloak for his Manchurian mission. by Jon Jeter Part 1 No strangers to winter’s tempestuousness, Chicagoans were nonetheless caught unprepared for the blizzard that blanketed the city with nearly two feet of snow over two days beginning Saturday, January 13, 1979 — pelting the prairie with flakes so big and white they seemed a hallucination. Despite assurances from City Hall that the Chicago Transit Authority was fully operational, commuters on their way to work Monday morning watched with both bemusement and white-hot rage as the El trains bypassed stations on the city’s mostly black South Side, leaving thousands, literally, out in the cold. Chicago’s Democratic machine had never been responsive to the needs of its black constituents, but

The PayPal-offshoot Becomes a Weapon in the War Against Whistleblowers and WikiLeaks. The Palantir document notes that most well-known journalistic professionals “with a liberal bent . . .if pushed will choose professional preservation over cause, such is the mentality of most business professionals.” WikiLeaks, the transparency organization known for publishing leaked documents that threaten the powerful, finds itself under pressure like never before, as does its editor-in-chief, Julian Assange. Now the fight to silence WikiLeaks is not only being waged by powerful government figures but also by the media, including outlets and organizations that have styled themselves as working to protect whistleblowers. Pierre Omidyar – eBay billionaire and PayPal’s long-time owner – holds considerable sway over several journalists and organizations that once championed WikiLeaks but now work for the Omidyar-owned publication, The Intercept. Thanks to his deep ties to the U.S. gove

The Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) was set to break ties with WikiLeaks amidst concerns among the foundation’s board, which includes such well-known figures as Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras, John Cusack and Glenn Greenwald, among others. The news was confirmed less than a month later when the nonprofit’s board officially voted to stop accepting U.S. donations for WikiLeaks, which had been blacklisted for years by Visa, MasterCard and PayPal after publishing leaked U.S. government documents provided by Chelsea Manning. WikiLeaks took to Twitter to suggest that something more nefarious was behind the board’s decision to cut ties. Once the news became public, WikiLeaks and its associated accounts linked the FPF’s decision to the fact that many of its members now work for organizations financed by eBay billionaire and PayPal co-founder Pierre Omidyar. In addition, the FPF itself has received large sums of money from Omidyar and his various businesses

How much can Raytheon, Mastercard, Nokia, Monsanto and the like be trusted to invest in long-term outcomes in the global South? When you see the actors behind U.S. ‘aid and development’ in Africa, is it any wonder that African leaders would look for any other partner to work with? by Jim Carey Part 4 - China will drive African prosperity and security The U.S. will attempt to create an idea that China is somehow “preying” on African nations (as if the West would never!), but it seems genuinely that this isn’t’ the case. What is really happening is that Africa is choosing to work with China and this, in turn, means that the U.S. stake in the continent is reduced and replaced by Chinese interests. Concerns about the declining U.S. role in the continent are even surfacing in the U.S. military, which feels China will throw off “anti-terror” operations in Africa by stabilizing the continent and pushing U.S. security interests out. The U.S. military has ex

Απάντηση: Ίσως περισσότερο και από τον Μίλτον Φρίντμαν! globinfo freexchange Ακόμα και ένας από τους 'αρχιγκουρού' της νεοφιλελεύθερης ιδεολογίας, ο Μίλτον Φρίντμαν, έλεγε ότι υπάρχει ένα μόνο αγαθό που πρέπει να παραμένει πάντα υπό δημόσιο έλεγχο: οι αυτοκινητόδρομοι. Ίσως γι'αυτό το λόγο, οι δύο καλύτεροι μαθητές του, Ρόναλντ Ρήγκαν και Μάργκαρετ Θάτσερ, δεν τόλμησαν ποτέ να εκχωρήσουν σε ιδιώτες το δημόσιο οδικό δίκτυο των ΗΠΑ και της Βρετανίας. Ακόμα και στη Γερμανία, η ιδιωτικοποίηση των αυτοκινητόδρομων απορρίφθηκε από το σύνολο των πολιτικών κομμάτων. Τώρα, η δήθεν 'Αριστερή' κυβέρνηση ΣΥΡΙΖΑΝΕΛ ετοιμάζεται να ξεπουλήσει σε ιδιώτες τον μεγαλύτερο αυτοκινητόδρομο της χώρας, κάτω από την πίεση βεβαίως των νεοφιλελέ ταλιμπάν της τρόικας, κάτι που θα έχει ολέθριες συνέπειες για τους πολίτες, όπως, για παράδειγμα, κατακόρυφη αύξηση της τιμής των διοδίων. Ακόμα και η αγία των απανταχού νεοφιλελέδων, Θάτσερ, θα έσκαγε από τη ζήλια της.

globinfo freexchange Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko appears to be far more open-minded than many Western leaders, considering Belarus decision to legalize cryptocurrencies in March 2018 and his recent statements on the issue:            Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has announced that a decree which will be in effect on March 28, 2018 will legalize cryptocurrencies in the state of Belarus. The decree entitled “On the development of the digital economy” was signed by President Lukashenko on December 21, 2017. It will legalize not only cryptocurrencies but also initial coin offerings (ICOs) and the use of smart contracts. It was further explained that the decree’s main goal is to create an environment that can encourage the world’s leading IT companies to come to Belarus where they can open development centers as well as create products that could be famous in the world. Lukashenko is the one that the Western media insist to call him 'last dictat