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The International Atomic Energy Agency has once again lent itself to the political interests of the United States and Israel, provoking a needless conflict with Iran by Gareth Porter Part 2 - Israeli pressure campaign gains way with US help The latest phase of the Iran crisis erupted in June 2018, when the Israeli government informed the IAEA that its intelligence services had discovered a new “ secret atomic warehouse ” in the Turquzabad district of Tehran. In his September 2018 United Nations speech announcing the find, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu subsequently demanded that IAEA director general, Yukio Amano, “ do the right thing. Go inspect this atomic warehouse, immediately, before the Iranians finish clearing it out. ” Amano pushed back publicly against the Israeli pressure in October 2018, asserting his independence from Netanyahu’s agenda. Under his watch, the IAEA also failed to accede to Israel’s demand to publicize documents from the “archive” they

A Trump-like Mexican oligarch, Gilberto Lozano, is leading a coalition of corporate leaders and far-right fanatics called FRENA to try to overthrow President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. by José Guadalupe Argüello III and Ben Norton Part 1 Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s victory in Mexico’s 2018 presidential election marked a historic feat, promising a respite from a roughly 40-year period of continuous neoliberal rule over the country. López Obrador, better known as AMLO, is taking Mexico down a new route toward greater national autonomy. Under a revolutionary process that he calls the Fourth Transformation, he is fighting systemic corruption and rampant theft of public resources, while boosting social benefits for the poor. From the beginning of AMLO’s term in December 2018, members of the parties that have dominated Mexican politics for decades, particularly the right-wing National Action Party (PAN) and neoliberal Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), have wor

Mexico’s oligarchs and establishment political parties have united in a secret alliance to try to remove left-wing President López Obrador from power, with help from the media, Washington, and Wall Street. Leaked documents lay out their devious strategy. by Ben Norton  Part 2 - ‘Broad Opposition Bloc’ BOA plot to demonize AMLO with media propaganda In a press conference on June 9, the Mexican government published a leaked strategy document purportedly drafted by the Broad Opposition Bloc, titled “Let’s Rescue Mexico” (Rescatemos a México). The AMLO administration said it did not know the origin of the leak. These pages consist of an executive summary of “Project BOA,” outlining what it calls a “plan of action” – a blueprint of concrete steps the opposition alliance will take to unseat AMLO. One of the key points in the plan is the following: “ Lobbying by the BOA in Washington (White House and Capital Hill) to stress the damage that the government of the [Fourth Tr

As a Hong Kong protest leader promotes far-right condemnations of US anti-racism demonstrations and activists shut down a Black Lives Matter rally in the city, Hong Kong organizers forge close ties with hardline Republicans in Washington. by Ajit Singh Part 4 - Hong Kong’s opposition aligned with same far-right US politicians repressing Black Lives Matter There are some within Hong Kong’s “pro-democracy” movement who have issued statements expressing support for the protests taking place in the US and the Black Lives Matter movement, arguing that both movements are engaged in a shared struggle against oppression and police brutality.  Joshua Wong, a poster-boy for the Hong Kong protests, along with Nathan Law and other leading members of his political party, Demosistō, have stated that they stand with Black Lives Matter. “ Many of you have asked me about the ongoing U.S. protests ” wrote Wong in a June 2 tweet. “ As a human-rights activist, I stand firmly on the side o

by Mara Hvistendahl, Alleen Brown Part 1 A former Albuquerque City Council candidate who ran on a tough-on-crime platform shot a protester at an anti-police brutality demonstration on Monday and was arrested alongside members of a right-wing militia group. The shooting is an extreme example of a trend that has played out across the country as armed vigilantes pledging to protect property have shown up at protests — in many cases with encouragement or even explicit collaboration from law enforcement. The shooter, Steven Ray Baca, had been intimidating protesters planning to topple a statue of the murderous Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate outside the Albuquerque Museum. He was joined in this quest by members of the New Mexico Civil Guard, a militia group that emerged in the wake of coronavirus-related shutdowns. Baca, who was recently named a board member of the Albuquerque Tea Party, claims to have family in law enforcement and has led pro-police activism in the past

The Hill Author of 'The Deficit Myth' Stephanie Kelton shares insight on how corporate bailouts attribute to the increase in national debt.

Στην πολιτική ατζέντα των τελευταίων ημερών κυριάρχησε η κόντρα του Πρωθυπουργού Κυριάκου Μητσοτάκη με τον πρώην Πρωθυπουργό Αντώνη Σαμαρά που «φρέναρε» τον ανασχηματισμό και δημιούργησε εσωστρέφεια στην κυβέρνηση.  Σύμφωνα με τα ρεπορτάζ, ο «εμφύλιος» ξεκίνησε όταν το Μαξίμου «εξουδετέρωσε» τους δικαστικούς που πρόσκεινται στον πρώην Πρωθυπουργό, δηλαδή τους Π. Αθανασίου. Ι. Αγγελή, Ε. Ράικου ενώ κάποιες πηγές απέδωσαν σε κύκλους του Μαξίμου ακόμη και τις σοβαρές αποκαλύψεις των τελευταίων ημερών. Πρόκειται για τους τρεις δικαστικούς που «τεκμηριώνουν» με τις -όψιμες- καταθέσεις τους, για λογαριασμό της σαμαρικής πτέρυγας, το σενάριο της «σκευωρίας» στο σκάνδαλο Novartis και της διεύρυνσης του κατηγορητηρίου για το Δημήτρη Παπαγγελόπουλο, μετά το αδιέξοδο της πρώτης φάσης της Προανακριτικής.  Αυτό είναι ένα καλό μάθημα για όσους αμφισβήτησαν πόσο βάθος έχουν οι περιβόητοι «αρμοί της εξουσίας» που περιέγραψε χαρακτηριστικά ο Αλέξης Τσίπρας πριν λίγους μήνες.  Ο ΣΥΡΙΖΑ, ως κυβέ

The Grayzone As Syria tries to recover from a nearly decade-long conflict, the US has imposed crippling new sanctions that explicitly target reconstruction. " For Syrians, sanctions on reconstruction and on oil and gas are likely to be felt most acutely, " the Washington Post reports. " The Caesar Act will probably limit the government’s ability to procure oil, further hurting the already low quality of life. " The new sanctions follow earlier coercive measures that had already hurt Syrian civilians, compounding the destruction of a lengthy proxy war fueled and funded by the US and its allies. 

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Inside Edition Hundreds of people marched from the Washington Heights neighborhood to Harlem in support of Black Lives Matter on June 14th, 2020. The uptown Manhattan rally and protest called for major reforms in the way the NYPD is funded and of the role the police play in the community. Protesters carried signs and chanted slogans decrying police brutality and mourning the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others who died at the hands of law enforcement.