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globinfo freexchange Ήδη από τον Φεβρουάριο είχαμε επισημάνει ότι το προσφυγικό ζήτημα ήταν αυτό που κυρίως επίσπευσε την αποκάλυψη της απόλυτης ένδειας του Μητσοτακικού καθεστώτος και την πλήρη ανικανότητά του να χειριστεί σχεδόν οποιοδήποτε πρόβλημα.  Δυστυχώς, το χάος που επικρατεί στη Λέσβο μετά την καταστροφή στη Μόρια, επιβεβαίωσε πλήρως και πάλι αυτό το πλέον δεδομένο. Όσον αφορά τα εθνικά, σοκ θα πρέπει να προκάλεσε στους παραδοσιακούς ψηφοφόρους της πατριωτικής δεξιάς η αποκάλυψη ότι ο Μητσοτάκης, μέσα από δικό του άρθρο, έκανε λόγο ακόμα και για «έγγραφη συμφωνία» μεταξύ Ελλάδας και Τουρκίας. Και όλα αυτά, παρά τις πομπώδεις διακηρύξεις στελεχών του καθεστώτος ότι δεν πρόκειται να γίνει διάλογος αν ο Ερντογάν δεν εγκαταλείψει τις εμπρηστικές ενέργειες και τη ρητορική των απειλών.  Όπως φαίνεται, δυστυχώς είχαμε και σε αυτό δίκιο, καθώς ήδη από τον περσινό Ιούλιο γράφαμε ότι οι " σταχτοπούτες " της δεξιάς μεταμορφώθηκαν, εν μια νυκτί, από

The day after the Bolivian election, the Organization of American States suggested the result was fraudulent — then took months to provide any proof. Last month, it finally released its data — and researchers at the Center for Economic and Policy Research found a basic coding error that destroys the OAS’s case against Morales. by David Rosnick  Part 2 - Unjustly Forced Out The damage, of course, had already been done. On November 11, 2019, Bolivia’s president, Evo Morales — his term not yet complete — stepped down from the presidency amid allegations of fraud. Decisive was the report from the OAS, which had just presented its preliminary findings in a binding audit of the October 20 election. These findings were not favorable to Morales, questioning his official first-round victory. Members of the opposition, some of whom had been saying all along that Morales and his Movement Toward Socialism (MAS-IPSP) party would attempt fraud to stay in power, took to the streets i

With backing from the US government’s regime-change arm, an Operation Mockingbird-style website called Coda Story is attacking American journalists who have punctured Washington’s sensationalist narratives against China. by Ben Norton Part 5 - Coda Story cites US government-backed Uyghur separatist to smear The Grayzone Coda Story ’s defamatory hatchet job attacking The Grayzone ’s independent investigative journalism demonstrate the deceptive tactics that have become a hallmark of the outlet. Notably, Coda Story did not challenge any of The Grayzone ’s factual reporting on its merits. Instead, the neocon US government proxy site resorted to defaming The Grayzone by citing highly partisan anti-China separatist activists who are themselves funded by the US government. Caitlin Thompson, the Coda Story staffer who authored the article, previously worked at Foreign Policy , another hawkish pro-war website that is closely linked to the US national security

Years of US support to Al-Qaeda and ISIS and efforts to effect regime change in the country have culminated in the theft of Syria’s oil, but is that really America’s coup de gras in Syria? by Steven Chovanec  Part 4 - Anchoring American troops in Syria This is the history by which an American firm was able to secure a contract to extract oil in Syria. And while the actual resources gained will not be of much value (Syria has only 0.1% of the world’s oil reserves), the presence of an American company will likely serve as a justification to maintain a U.S. military presence in the region. “ It is a fiendishly clever maneuver aimed at anchoring American troops in Syria for a long time ,” Stephen Kinzer explains, one that will aid the policymakers who hold “ the view that the United States must remain militarily dominant in the Middle East. ” This analysis corroborates the extensive scholarship of people like Mason Gaffney, professor of economics emeritus at the University

globinfo freexchange                          The same Democrats who constantly complain about evil cartoon villain "authoritarian" regimes in Russia and China are supporting actual, real authoritarian persecution of journalist Julian Assange at home. And in alliance with Trump. Imperial hypocrisy knows no bounds. It says everything about the hypocrisy of bourgeois liberals, who pride themselves on supposedly being so "enlightened," as they cheer on the torture of political prisoner Assange and pretend like his show trial is "justice." They hate Trump, but ally with Trump against Assange. https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1303338497986748417

The Grayzone Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with journalist Juan Passarelli, director of the film "The War on Journalism: the Case of Julian Assange," about the trial of Julian Assange as well as his experience working with Wikileaks.

RT UK Assange hearing day two. His father stated:                          Under the Obama administration was considered too difficult prospect to indict Julian. However, under the Trump administration they've decided on a worldwide oppression of journalism, publishers and publications.

acTVism Munich Prior to Julian Assange’s full extradition hearing, hundreds of protestors gathered outside The Old Bailey to demand his freedom. Prominent speakers including Kristinn Hranfsson, John Pilger, and John Shipton among others spoke about the importance of a free press. The extradition of Julian Assange is a malicious prosecution by any standard. Even critics of the man ought to condemn this as a show trial. The "crime" in question is the greatest public service @Wikileaks ever performed: exposing Iraq-era abuses. Drop the charges. #FreeAssange https://t.co/JhIrfro7cV — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 7, 2020

A Washington, DC-based PR firm linked to the US government and Democratic Party, CLS Strategies, ran a fake news network on Facebook and Instagram, spreading propaganda for Bolivia’s coup regime and the right-wing opposition in Venezuela and Mexico. by Ben Norton Part 1 A major US PR firm located just a few blocks from the White House has been caught running an industrial grade propaganda operation on social media. The information warfare blitzkrieg relied on fake accounts and pages to spread disinformation on behalf of right-wing, US-backed governments in Latin America, while deploying covert propaganda to destabilize the leftist governments in Venezuela and Mexico. The company behind the campaign, CLS Strategies, signed a contract to represent Bolivia’s far-right junta and provide “ strategic communications counsel ” in the lead-up to that country’s ostensible election. After coming to power through a US-backed military coup in November 2019, the Bolivian regime has

Henry Wallace was an ambitious left-winger in Roosevelt’s Democratic Party who, as secretary of agriculture and then as vice president, helped make radical the New Deal of the 1930s. His ultimate defeat by the right of his own party shows the obstacles the insurgent left has always faced within the Democratic Party. by Paul Heideman Part 2 - The Soul of the New Deal Wallace’s emergence as torchbearer for the progressive left took an unusual path. Born to a family of prominent Iowa intellectuals, he established himself as an authority on American agriculture and an innovative farmer in his own right. After Roosevelt’s election in 1932, he appointed Wallace secretary of agriculture. His eight years at the Department of Agriculture go almost entirely undiscussed in Nichols’s book, which is unfortunate, given that in this capacity he presided over one of the most exciting democratic experiments in American history. As recounted in Jess Gilbert’s invaluable Planning Democra