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While posing as a grassroots human rights organization, the World Uyghur Congress is a US-funded and directed separatist network that has forged alliances with far-right ethno-nationalist groups. The goal spelled out by its founders is clear: the destabilization of China and regime change in Beijing. by Ajit Singh Part 7 - Rushan Abbas, the US national security state’s favorite “human rights activist” Another influential organization spun out of the WUC network is the Campaign for Uyghurs. This group is headed by Rushan Abbas, the former Vice President of the UAA. Promoted simply as a Uyghur “ human rights activist ” by Western media outlets including the supposedly adversarial Democracy Now! , Abbas is, in fact, a longtime US government and military operative. Abbas boasts in her bio of her “ extensive experience working with US government agencies, including Homeland Security, Department of Defense, Department of State, and various US intelligence agencies. ” While

 by Jonathan Cook Part 5 - Survival of the fittest smear What Symone Sanders was really trying to do was conceal power – the fact that the DNC is seeking to impose its chosen candidate on party members. As occurred during the confected women-men, Clinton vs “Bernie Bros” confrontation, Symone Sanders was field-testing a similar narrative management tool as part of the establishment’s efforts to hone it for improved effect. The establishment has learnt – through a kind of survival of the fittest smear – that divide-and-rule identity politics is the perfect way to shield its influence as it favours a status-quo candidate (Biden or Clinton) over a candidate seen as a threat to its power (Sanders). In her tweet, Symone Sanders showed exactly how the power elite seeks to obscure its toxic role in our societies. She neatly conflated “the establishment” – of which she is a very small, but well-paid component – with ordinary “black voters”. Her message is this: should you try to cri

by Paul Street Part 4 - Democratic Red Baiters The 2020 primary campaign has taken the elitist class hatred that reigns atop the Democratic Party and its many affiliated media outlets to a new level. I have been following the “liberal” elite’s unmitigated and corporate-funded loathing and ignoring of Bernie Sanders for much of the last year. It’s not a pretty story. The ruling class contempt has come replete with noxious red-baiting and flat-out slander combined with absurdly false claims that the richest country in world history “can’t afford” to make health care a human right or to move off the fossil fuel addiction that is collapsing human civilization. Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/dear-berners-dementia-joe-is-how-much-your-party-hates-you/ [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ][ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ]

globinfo freexchange Who would have thought that a virus would force governments around the world to dig up some Socialist policies to tackle the pandemic? And we mean real Socialism, not "Socialism for the rich", like the one during the 2007-08 financial meltdown, when the governments bailed-out the parasitic banking sector with tons of money instead of letting it pay the price for the huge damage it had created. Central banks have fed again the voracious mouths of the bankers with trillions, keeping in life support an already broken system. Yet, many governments in the West took action contrary to the typical and failed recipes of the neoliberal "gurus" of financial capitalism.  You see, things are getting serious. And many governments realized that they had to take action, instead of just waiting the "invisible hand" of the free market to do the job. No time for games. Besides, the "invisible hand" was completely absent when t

The Grayzone Iran has been ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, and new US sanctions are making it worse. Alfred de Zayas, a former UN Special Rapporteur, says that intensified US sanctions against Iran and Venezuela during the crisis are "insane", and possibly genocidal.

The eurogroup met on Monday March 16, to hammer out its coordinated fiscal response to the massive recession already in progress following the lockdown of much of Europe’s society. The task they faced is enormous: If sales, tourism, services etc. fall by 50% for just one month (which is certain), and then by 25% for only two more months (i.e. the best-case scenario), then annual growth will be -10%. Across Europe! So, what did the eurogroup announce? An immediate massive fiscal boost, its purpose being to reassure people that they will not be poorer. E.g. the government of Hong Kong that ploughed $10 billion immediately into the economy by ordering the tax office to credit every household’s bank account with $1250 immediately. Not expecting such swift action from the eurogroup, the fact remains that nothing short of a 5% fiscal injection was needed to reduce the calamity from -10% of GDP to, say, -3% (assuming a very large multiplier effect). At the very least, the eurogro

globinfo freexchange Την ίδια ώρα που η νεοφιλελεύθερη κυβέρνηση Μητσοτάκη παίρνει μέτρα-κοροϊδία για τη στήριξη της οικονομίας και ειδικότερα των μικρομεσαίων επιχειρήσεων που ψυχορραγούν, η Ομοσπονδία Ενώσεων Νοσοκομειακών Γιατρών Ελλάδος (ΟΕΝΓΕ), ξεσκεπάζει τον εμπαιγμό και την απάτη, μέσα από μια ανακοίνωση-απάντηση στο διάγγελμα Μητσοτάκη. Όπως αναφέρεται χαρακτηριστικά στην ανακοίνωση:                     Μία εβδομάδα μετά την εξαγγελία σας για 2000 προσλήψεις υγειονομικού προσωπικού, πόσες έχετε κάνει; Τι περιμένετε; Στο διάγγελμά σας δεν κάνατε την παραμικρή νύξη για προσλήψεις γιατρών. [...] Οι 2000 προσλήψεις νοσηλευτικού προσωπικού δε φτάνουν. Τόσες είχατε εξαγγείλει και τον Ιούλιο όταν δεν ήμασταν σε πόλεμο και δεν τις κάνατε. Όπως, επίσης, επισημαίνουν οι νοσοκομειακοί γιατροί:                      Οι 1900 κλίνες οι οποίες εύχεστε να μη χρειαστούν, χρειάζονται ήδη αποδεδειγμένα. Και αυτό γιατί μέχρι σήμερα περιέθαλπαν ασθενείς με άλλα νοσήματα. Από εκεί πρ

by Victor Wallis The US political scene is haunted by talk of socialism. The basis for this has been developing now for some years, especially since the financial meltdown of 2008, which many came to see as decisive proof that a capitalist economy does not serve the majority. But how does this new mass perception express itself? On the one hand, there is wide recognition of the grotesque level of inequality, as expressed in the slogan – made popular by the 2011 Occupy movement – of “the 1% vs. the 99%.” But on the other hand, people are bombarded with conflicting definitions of socialism, and uncertainty is rife. The dominant tendency in US political rhetoric is to view socialism not as the dissolution of capitalist class-relations, but rather as an expansion of the scope of government. A favorite strategy of those – like Bernie Sanders – whose proposals are attacked as being socialist is to respond by denouncing billionaires as benefiting, via government subsidies, from s

Brazil’s far-right government requested the return of thousands of Cuban doctors to help fight the coronavirus. Months ago, President Jair Bolsonaro smeared the doctors as “terrorists” and expelled them. by Ben Norton Part 1 The coronavirus pandemic has overwhelmed the health infrastructure of countries around the world. Desperate to contain the deadly virus, hard-hit countries, including even rich European nations like Italy and Britain, have reached out for expert medical help from Cuba, China, and Venezuela. Even Brazil, currently under the control of a far-right administration that has joined the US in demonizing Cuba’s socialist government, has fallen back on the small nation for much-needed medical support — requesting help from the very same Cuban doctors it expelled months ago. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has repeatedly called for the restoration of the military dictatorship, threatened his political opponents with violence, and backed terrorist atta

Italy requested doctors from China, Cuba, and Venezuela to contain the coronavirus, while Cuba rescued a ship of British citizens. Meanwhile, US sanctions worsen the toll of the Covid-19 crisis in Iran and Venezuela. by Ben Norton Part 1 The sanctions that the United States has imposed on dozens of countries around the world, in an attempt to overthrow their independent governments, have only made the global coronavirus pandemic worse. But at the same time, some of these nations targeted by US economic warfare have taken the lead in the effort to contain the Covid-19 outbreak. In fact, the local government in the north of Italy, a member of the European Union and NATO, has officially requested medical help from China, Cuba, and Venezuela — all countries demonized by the United States and EU, which in turn have provided Italy with little support. The Italian government lamented that “ not a single EU country ” has responded to its request for medical equipment — unl