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As Chile nears its 45th anniversary since the socialist government of Salvador Allende was overthrown, former National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) and National Information Centre (CNI) agents are being released from prison on parole, despite having been handed multiple lengthy prison sentences. by Ramona Wadi Part 1 It is clear that former state-employed torturers have become emboldened since the electoral triumph of Chilean President Sebastian Pinera. While last year’s presidential election illustrated the Chilean left’s disillusion with the center-left coalitions — resulting in a low voter turnout and a right-wing victory — for Chilean memory groups, the events now unfolding in the wake of that victory constitute a severe threat to Chile’s collective memory, the quest for justice, and the constant efforts to discover the fate of the disappeared. It also signals a new wave of impunity, in which the state and courts are collaborating to silence the ongoing memory str

The Labour leader's opponents don't care about anti-Semitism. They'll just do anything to remove Corbyn by David Hearst Part 2 - Feeding the crocodile Corbyn is facing the biggest threat to his leadership since the "coup" organised by his parliamentary party. He is also increasingly isolated among his own supporters. John McDonnell, Corbyn's closest ally, who shuns foreign policy, thinks this is not Labour's fight. Emily Thornberry, his shadow foreign secretary, has not said a word. Ed Milliband, the former Labour leader under whose tenure anti-Semitism was historically greater than during Corbyn's reign, has offered little support. Union leaders are pealing away. Muslim groups do not want to know. Corbyn is alone. And the result is that Corbyn feels he is left with no option but to back down, apologise, accept the contentious "working examples" of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of ant

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 from September 17, 2009 – ten days before the German federal election and a few months before the eruption of the European debt crisis - shows that the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, had no real plan to deal seriously with t

Twelve years ahead of schedule, a new report finds that China may already have had its worst year for carbon emissions—a sign that the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases could be well on its way to meeting the goals put forth by the Paris climate agreement. " As part of the Paris Agreement, China pledged to peak its CO2 emissions by 2030. In retrospect, the commitment may have been fulfilled as it was being made, " wrote several scientists who reported on their findings in Nature Geoscience on Tuesday. The study found that China produced 9.2 billion tons of carbon in 2016, down from 9.5 billion tons in 2013. The emission levels of the country, which surpassed the U.S. as the world's biggest carbon producer in 2007, have declined every year from 2014 to 2016. The downward slope represents "stability," according to Dabo Guan, a professor of climate change economics at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. &q

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro congratulated both public and private banking sector for their efficiency in currency reconversion. Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas Tuesday in a show of support for the new economic reforms that took effect a day earlier as part of the government's Economic Recovery Plan that seeks to address the financial struggles facing the country and fight back against the economic war and sanctions targetting Venezuela by the U.S. and its regional right-wing allies. A day earlier President Nicolas Maduro addressed the nation through social media to celebrate the “success” of the process of currency reconversion and congratulated both public and private banking sector for their efficiency. “ We have started currency reconversion and successfully adapted the technological platforms of the national banking system in record time, ” Maduro said before asking people to take to the streets Tuesday to support the plan and assert th

Σοβαρότης μηδέν failed evolution Σύσσωμο το πολιτικό τσίρκο έδωσε άλλη μια παράσταση από τις πλέον οικείες. Η αντιπολίτευση κατακεραύνωσε το διάγγελμα Τσίπρα από την Ιθάκη χρησιμοποιώντας τα γνωστά αφηγήματα (δεν έχει και πολλά εδώ που τα λέμε). Αλλά ενώ η γαλαζοπράσινη λαίλαπα που χρεοκόπησε τη χώρα κάνει αντιπολίτευση από υποχρέωση, από αγγαρεία, ή από ... κεκτημένη ταχύτητα, ο Τσίπρας, πραγματικά, τι το'θελε; Ήταν ανάγκη; Μια τελευταία ευκαιρία είχε να δείξει - αν μη τι άλλο - ότι έχουν μείνει κάποια ψήγματα έντιμης συμπεριφοράς στην στραπατσαρισμένη κυβερνώσα Αριστερά, και την έστειλε στο δίάολο, με αυτό το αλα-Γιωργάκη διάγγελμα. Τότε, ο πελαγωμένος Γιωργάκης Παπανδρέου ανήγγειλε την ‘απαραίτητη’ παράδοση της χώρας στα νύχια του ΔΝΤ και των Ευρωπαϊκών θεσμών. Όχι επειδή, ασφαλώς, έκρινε ότι αυτή ήταν η καλύτερη λύση. Αλλά επειδή απλά βρισκόταν σε πανικό και δεν ήξερε τι άλλο να κάνει παρά να απευθυνθεί στο φίλο του Στρος Καν, που ήταν τότε επικεφ

globinfo freexchange The fact that Brussels euroclowns celebrated in triumph the exit of Greece from the memorandum agreement, should be taken only as a huge farce. The Troika (ECB, European Commission, IMF) bailout program has officially ended and the result is a scenery of disaster. If you still believe that this program has been implemented to save the Greek economy and not the Franco-German banks , take a look at the situation today. Greece entered the bailout program with national debt at 120% of GDP. Now, the debt remains close to 180% of GDP! Unemployment remains at record levels. Public property has been sold-off for pennies to foreign 'investors'. Labor rights almost vanished, the situation resembles the Middle Ages. Social state and benefits severely damaged. This is the Troika 'success story'. So, in reality, the experiment was indeed successful for the goals of the international capitalist predators who transformed the country int

After nearly three days of constant pressure, clear explanations of basic facts, and bit of healthy shaming, CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday finally relented to the sheer force of the evidence and admitted that his Medicare for All "fact check"—which aimed to discredit Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) claim that a Koch brothers-funded study showed single-payer would save Americans $2 trillion—was horribly misleading and is in need of a substantial "redo." The central falsehood of Tapper's video segment, which he has now promised to correct, was his conflation of the American people and the U.S. government. Sanders, New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and several policy analysts have pointed out that—according to the Koch-funded Mercatus Center study, authored by Chuck Blahous—the American public would save $2 trillion on healthcare under Sanders' Medicare for All plan. Apparently confused by the difference, Tapper

The 21st century fraud by the banking mafia that has become a norm after the 2007-08 financial crisis globinfo freexchange Nomi Prins worked as a managing director at Goldman-Sachs for 2 years and as a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns for 7 years, and was a senior strategist at Lehman Brothers and an analyst at the Chase Manhattan Bank. From the description of her latest book Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World , we read:            Central banks and international institutions like the IMF have overstepped their traditional mandates by directing the flow of epic sums of fabricated money without any checks or balances. Meanwhile, the open door between private and central banking has ensured endless opportunities for market manipulation and asset bubbles--with government support. Speaking to Chris Hedges, Prins reveals the greatest fraud of all times by the banking mafia. What the establishment mouthpieces would be painting as ‘crazy