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Ecuador embraces neoliberal reform and US interests

Part 3 - Economic Reforms: Capital Over People On June 21, at the request of the executive branch, Ecuador’s National Assembly approved the Productive Development Law, a law rejected by economists and activists for threatening social services and violating the 2008 Constitution. The law prohibits the approval of the country's annual budget with a primary deficit. A provision that according to Ecuadorean economist Andres Arauz, who worked in Ecuador’s planning agency and the Central Bank will adversely affect social spending. “ Every year there must be more revenue (taxes) than expenditures (education, health, security)... There are only two ways to make the numbers match. You either increase revenue or reduce spending, ” Arauz explained. However, the same law includes tax reductions and exemptions for foreign investors for up to 15 years, as well as exemptions for all new investments on paying the tax on currency sent abroad. Economists have warned that elimin

Untold History of United States - Bush & Obama: Age of Terror

Η Ουάσινγκτον αποφασίζει τις κινήσεις της ελληνικής κυβέρνησης λέει η Μόσχα

Διάβημα διαμαρτυρίας έγινε στον Έλληνα πρεσβευτή στη Μόσχα Ανδρέα Φρυγανά, ο οποίος προσκλήθηκε σήμερα στο κεντρικό μέγαρο του ρωσικού ΥΠΕΞ. Η Μόσχα καταγγέλλει την ελληνική κυβέρνηση ότι ενήργησε καθ’ υπόδειξη της Ουάσιγκτον ενόψει της Συνόδου του ΝΑΤΟ. Το πλήρες κείμενο της κρίσιμης ανακοίνωσης έχει ως εξής: «Στις 13 Ιουλίου εκλήθη στο ΥΠΕΞ της Ρωσίας ο Πρέσβης της Ελληνικής Δημοκρατίας στη Ρωσική Ομοσπονδία Ανδρέας Φρυγανάς, στον οποίο εκφράστηκε αποφασιστική διαμαρτυρία σχετικά με την απέλαση δύο Ρώσων διπλωματών και την απαγόρευση εισόδου σε άλλους δύο πολίτες της Ρωσικής Ομοσπονδίας. Υπογραμμίστηκε ότι αντιμετωπίζουμε την ενέργεια αυτή ως απολύτως αβάσιμη, χωρίς θεμελίωση με γεγονότα από την ελληνική πλευρά, κινούμενη σε σύγκρουση με τον χαρακτήρα των διμερών σχέσεών μας και ικανή να τους προκαλέσει σοβαρή βλάβη. Είναι προφανές ότι πίσω από την αντιρωσική απόφαση της κυβέρνησης της Ελλάδας, που ήταν αφιερωμένη στην έναρξη της Συνόδου το

WikiLeaks paper reveals Ecuadorian private business elites declared war on Rafael Correa right after his election and asked for US support

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 March, 2007, only two months after the election of Rafael Correa as President of Ecuador, provides impressive details about the campaign that the Ecuadorian private business elites already started against the new

How biased Western reportage has harmed Venezuela

For almost 20 years, the US government has been trying to overthrow Venezuela’s government, and establishment media outlets (state, corporate and some nonprofit) throughout the Americas and Europe have been bending over backwards to help the US do it. Rare exceptions to this over the last two decades would be found in the state media in some countries that are not hostile to Venezuela, like the ALBA block. Small independent outlets like VenezuelAnalysis.com also offered alternatives. In the US and UK establishment media, you are way more likely to see a defense of Saudi Arabia’s dictatorship than of Venezuela’s democratically elected government. Any defense of Venezuela’s government will provoke vilification and ridicule, so both Alan MacLeod and his publisher (Routledge) deserve very high praise for producing the book Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting. It took real political courage. (Disclosure: MacLeod is a contributor to FAIR.

Hacker selling US military documents online ... because someone forgot to change a default password

Sensitive military documents have been put up for sale in online hacking forums after someone forgot to change a default password, according to a security firm that discovered the breach. Documents for sale include maintenance manuals for servicing MQ-9 Reaper drones, training manuals describing deployment tactics for improvised explosive devices (IEDs), documents detailing tank platoon tactics and an M1 ABRAMS tank operation manual, Bleeping Computer reported. Security firm Recorded Future discovered the documents for sale online and said the hacker who stole them was selling the information for the surprisingly low bargain price of between $150 and $200. The security firm, which has reported its findings to US authorities, said it had engaged with the hacker online and found he had used a program to search for Netgear routers that use a known default File Transfer Protocol (FTP) password. He then used the default password to gain access to the routers

The grotesque alliance of Western imperialists in one picture

As US President Donald Trump uses his time in Brussels to lambast European leaders for their various failings, as he sees them, a photograph now making the rounds on Twitter has captured the mood perfectly. When NATO leaders stood to have their group photo taken ahead of the summit’s opening ceremony, they all seemed to be looking at something to their left. Trump’s attention, however, was caught by something to the right — and the perfect meme was born. One Twitter user suggested that the photograph was the “perfect metaphor” and that Trump “sees the world the wrong way” in comparison with his NATO allies. https://www.rt.com/news/432684-trump-nato-group-photo-meme/

The secret plans for regime change in Iran by the Western neocolonialists

globinfo freexchange According to whistleblower and founder of the independent news website NewsBud, Sibel Edmonds, the Western intelligence has given a secret ultimatum to a faction of the Iranian army in order to proceed in a coup to topple the Iranian government. Citing well-informed sources from the region, Edmonds describes the blackmail, which basically consists of two possible plans. About a year ago, the Western nations had secret meetings with some Iranian high-level military officials outside Iran. The Western intelligence military provided the following ultimatum to the Iranians: Plan A: you topple the government with a military coup and make it look like you are anti-American, anti-Western, based on your nationalism. You will make it look like it is for the sake of the Iranian people who are suffering from the economic depression. Behind the scenes we will support you and we will lift the sanctions. Plan B: the Western nations a

Brazil: PT slams 'lawfare' against Lula, weighs legal actions

“ Moro, Thompson, Gebran and the delegates on duty at the Federal Police in Curitiba are all accomplices in the same violence against the rights of Lula," PT's Gleisi Hoffmann. “ It's difficult to point out who acted in the most shameful way ” said the president of the Workers' Party (PT), Senator Gleisi Hoffmann, regarding the weekend legal events that kept former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in prison despite a release order. “ Why don't they immediately arrest the Brazilian people that want Lula free and Lula president? ” Hoffmann rhetorically asked, adding that she is “ sad that the country has to be ashamed of its judges. ” Lula da Silva remains in prison after a decision by an appeal judge to immediately release him was blatantly rejected by unauthorized judges, starting what some have dubbed a lawfare. “ Moro, Thompson, Gebran and the delegates on duty at the Federal Police in Curitiba are all accomplices in the same vi

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Tην ώρα που η νεοφιλελεύθερη ευρωπαϊκή συμμορία -της οποίας μέλος είναι και η ΝΔ- αμφισβητεί ανοιχτά θεμελιώδεις εργασιακές κατακτήσεις, όπως το 8ωρο, στη χώρα μας, υπόδικοι επιχειρηματίες, διεφθαρμένοι πολιτικοί και τα παπαγαλάκια τους, στήνουν νέο γύρο κοινωνικού αυτοματισμού με αφορμή τις συντάξεις και τις εργασιακές σχέσεις. του Κωνσταντίνου Ταχτσίδη Η ακραία ηγετική ομάδα της ΝΔ, μπορεί για ψηφοθηρικούς λόγους να αποκρύπτει τις πραγματικές τις απόψεις για τις συντάξεις, τις απολύσεις και γενικότερα για τις εργασιακές σχέσεις, αλλά η δίψα για "αίμα" δεν κρύβεται εύκολα, ειδικά όταν για καιρό έχουν μείνει "πεινασμένοι". Το σύστημα που χρεοκόπησε τη χώρα δεν αρκείται απλά στο να ξαναγυρίσει στην εξουσία, με οποιονδήποτε τρόπο. Θέλει εκδίκηση. Όχι από το ΣΥΡΙΖΑ. Θέλει να ταπεινώσει τους ίδιους που κατασυκοφαντεί με συνέπεια τα τελευταία 8 χρόνια. Την κοινωνία που πριν τρία χρόνια τόλμησε να αμφισβητήσει την καρμική τους σχέση με την