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Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno has made no secret of his annoyance with the man he refers to a “hacker,” calling Assange “a stone in his shoe” as Ecuador seeks to restructure itself as a trusted ally of the United States. by Elliott Gabriel Part 1 For all practical purposes, whistleblower and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is now a prisoner in asylum at the Embassy of Ecuador in London, facing the torture of near-total isolation from the outside world and hanging by the thread of the Andean state’s dwindling hospitality. On Thursday, the Australian – who, strangely enough, was given Ecuadorian citizenship last December – faced a new layer of precariousness atop his six-year refuge, when Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno ordered that additional security assigned to the building be withdrawn. According to Ecuador’s government, the London Embassy will now have the same level of security enjoyed by the other ambassadorial facilities the Andean nation maintains t

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." – Noam Chomsky By Manmeet Sahni Part 4 - Fractured Opposition In December 2017, pro-opposition think tank Atlantic Council received US$1million from the U.S. State Department to work with Venezuela's "fractured opposition." According to the Miami Herald, the funds will help finance a year-long project to " draw more international attention to the crisis, show the public what Venezuela could look like under new leadership, and provide the opposition and other stakeholders the tools needed to work more cohesively together. " Jason Marczak, director of the Atlantic Council's Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, told the Miami Herald: " What we're trying to do is address the fractures within the opposition. That is then helpful for the opposition's overall sta

Ecuador’s president, Lenín Moreno, shook up his cabinet and appointed six new ministers this week. The move appears to confirm what many of his critics on the Left have long suspected, which is that Moreno is moving the country increasingly towards the Right. That is, they say he is reversing the policies under the previous government, Rafael Correa, who pursued a fairly progressive agenda, particularly in foreign and economic affairs. For example, President Moreno’s new Minister of the Economy, Richard Martinez, comes directly from the country’s business class, where he worked as a consultant for the Chamber of Industry and Production, and he also was president of Ecuador’s Business Committee, which is the country’s main business association. globinfo freexchange Greg Wilpert of the Real News spoke with Guillaume Long, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador under former President Rafael Correa, about the rapid turn of the new Ecuadorian administratio

του Λεωνίδα Βατικιώτη Αντιμέτωπες με μια ασύμμετρη απειλή βρίσκονται Βρυξέλλες και Βερολίνο όσο αποκαλύπτονται πλευρές του κυβερνητικού προγράμματος της υπό σχηματισμό κυβέρνησης στην Ιταλία που προέκυψε από τις εκλογές της 4ης Μαρτίου. Το έγγραφο 39 σελίδων που έδωσε στη δημοσιότητα τη Δευτέρα 14 Μαΐου η ιταλική έκδοση της ιστοσελίδας Huffington Post προκάλεσε σοκ, όσο κι αν τόσο το Κίνημα των Πέντε Αστέρων και η Λίγκα του Βορρά δήλωσαν ότι έχουν μετακινηθεί έκτοτε από αυτές τις θέσεις, στο πλαίσιο επικαιροποιήσεων, χωρίς ωστόσο να το αποποιούνται! Τα θέματα που κυρίως έθιγε το επίμαχο έγγραφο σκορπώντας αναταράξεις στην πολιτική και οικονομική ελίτ της Ευρώπης ήταν δύο και σχετίζονταν αρχικά, με τον θεσμικό «ζουρλομανδύα της λιτότητας» όπως πρώτος ο Ρομάνο Πρόντι, από τη θέση του προέδρου της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής, είχε χαρακτηρίσει το δημοσιονομικό πλαίσιο της ΕΕ. Επιπλέον, με το δημόσιο χρέος της Ιταλίας. Συγκεκριμένα, αυτό που εξέτασαν οι επικεφαλής των δ

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." – Noam Chomsky By Manmeet Sahni Part 3 - Constructed Reality The most recent protests in Venezuela started in 2016, when the opposition-led National Assembly attempted to impeach Maduro before calling for a referendum. Maduro's government has made frequent calls for dialogue with the opposition, which the opposition has repeatedly turned down. In 2016, the opposition-led National Assembly tried to impeach Maduro illegally – they had zero support from legislative bodies. Then, in October of 2016, the opposition called for a coup against Maduro when the Supreme Court ruled to suspend the presidential recall referendum due to suspected electoral fraud in the first phase of the process. The opposition then launched a series of anti-government protests, further exacerbating the crisis. Mike