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globinfo freexchange Recent developments show that Europe was expecting a possible sabotage of the deal for the Iran nuclear program by the US. As RT reports: The European Union is planning to switch payments to the euro for its oil purchases from Iran, eliminating US dollar transactions , a diplomatic source told RIA Novosti. Brussels has been at odds with Washington over the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, which was reached during the administration of Barack Obama. President Donald Trump has pledged to re-impose sanctions against the Islamic Republic. [...] Earlier this week, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said that the foreign ministers of the UK, France, Germany, and Iran had agreed to work out practical solutions in response to Washington’s move in the next few weeks. The bloc is reportedly planning to maintain and deepen economi

Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, in an exclusive interview with the Intercept on Wednesday morning, denounced his country’s current government’s for blocking Julian Assange from receiving visitors in its Embassy in London as a form of “torture” and a violation of Ecuador’s duties to protect Assange’s safety and well-being. Correa said this took place in the context of Ecuador no longer maintaining “ normal sovereign relations with the American government — just submission. ” Correa also responded to a widely discussed Guardian article yesterday which claimed that “ Ecuador bankrolled a multimillion-dollar spy operation to protect and support Julian Assange in its central London embassy. ” The former President mocked the story as highly “sensationalistic,” accusing the Guardian of seeking to depict routine and modest embassy security measures as something scandalous or unusual. On March 27, Assange’s internet access at the Ecuadorian embassy in London

After initial reluctance, House Republicans have finally reached an agreement to move forward on a bipartisan bank deregulation bill that the Senate passed in March. Its stated aim — to help rural community banks thrive against growing Wall Street power — appears to have been enough to power it across the finish line. But banking industry analysts say the bill is already having the opposite effect, and its loosening of regulations on medium-sized banks is encouraging a rush of consolidation — all of which ends with an increasing number of community banks being swallowed up and closed down. “ We absolutely expect bank consolidation to accelerate,” Wells Fargo’s Mike Mayo told CNBC the day after the Senate passed the deregulation bill in March. The reason? Banks no longer face the prospect of stricter and more costly regulatory scrutiny as they grow. And regional banks in Virginia, Ohio, Mississippi, and Wisconsin have already taken note before the bill has eve

Η Ελλάδα δεν μπορεί να φέρεται ως «Πόντιος Πιλάτος» Η νέα σφαγή στη Γάζα , αμάχων Παλαιστινίων, επιβεβαιώνει την φονική καθημερινότητα των Παλαιστινίων, από ένας κράτος που λειτουργεί ως τρομοκράτης που αυτή την στιγμή στο Ισραήλ διαθέτει την πιο συντηρητική κυβέρνηση όλων των εποχών με τις ευλογίες των ΗΠΑ, όπου το μεγάλο ζήτημα μίας γενικευμένης ενδεχομένως ανάφλεξης οδηγεί στο Ιράν, λέει ο αρθρογράφος στη «Καθημερινή» Πέτρος Παπακωνσταντίνου, μιλώντας στον 98.4. Η Ελλάδα ως κυβέρνηση και αξιωματική αντιπολίτευση, δεν μπορεί στο όνομα γενικώς συμφερόντων της πατρίδας να σιωπά στη σφαγή αμάχων Παλαιστινίων, ούτε να συμπεριφέρεται ως «Πόντιος Πιλάτος», την ώρα που ο Ερντογάν με περισσή υποκρισία , επιχειρεί να εμφανιστεί ως προστάστης του διεθνούς και ανθρωπιστικού δικαίου στη περιοχή. Υπάρχουν και όρια λέει ο δημοσιογράφος Πέτρος Παπακωνσταντίνου, στο λεγόμενο εθνικό συμφέρον στις προβολές ισχύος δυνάμεων στη περιοχή. Δεν μπορεί να μετέχουμε σε κοινές ασκήσ

If any country, including the U.S., had armed terrorists embedded in neighborhoods, and holding civilians hostage for years, and targeting unarmed civilians constantly, it too would be using its own military and security forces to fight the terrorists in order to liberate the captive civilians. by Steven Sahiounie Part 2 - Neither grass-roots nor a revolution Had the conflict actually been ‘grass-roots,’ the ‘revolution’ could have been successful, and the Assad government would have been forced from Damascus. The fact that Assad is still in office attests to the steadfastness of the majority of the Syrian people. A successful revolution depends on the national army splitting and siding with the population who want regime change. However, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) never split, and never turned on the government. The SAA are a national army in Syria, made up of every able-bodied male over the age of 18 who is not enrolled in university. Because the population of Syr