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100 years after the end of WWI, James Corbett sheds light to little known yet important aspects that led to the beginning of the war.

failed evolution Nancy Pelosi's speech after Democrats took the House in recent US elections was not just a huge disappointment. Many progressives became furious about her empty speech, which was full of the most obsolete political generalities and cliches. But it was not just that Pelosi didn't want to committ that Democrats will fight for specific issues - in favor of the vast majority of Americans - that returned in the political debate by Bernie Sanders and the progressive movement. She actually 'gave the finger' to the progressives straight and clear. If you don't believe it, just check her own words: “ ... we will strive for bipartisanship. [...] we have a bipartisan marketplace of ideas that makes our democracy strong ... ” Translation: ‘ We will do business as usual. The bipartisan dictatorship will remain strong and under the control of the plutocratic elite. Nothing will change, don't bother. ’ That's all you

Any peace process in Afghanistan with the US boots on the ground is impossible, the Taliban delegates said after a meeting in Moscow, adding that the current Afghan government is a US puppet stalling the talks. “ We will not tolerate a single US soldier in Afghanistan, ” said the head of the Taliban delegation at the international meeting on Afghanistan in Moscow, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, adding that the insurgent group’s “ main goal ” is to “ put an end ” to the 17-year-long “ invasion ” led by the US and its allies. Still, Stanikzai said, the militants are ready to negotiate – but only with Washington, which they see as the real force behind the current Afghan government. More: https://www.rt.com/news/443586-taliban-us-afghanistan-withdrawal/

Donald Trump’s economic advisers released a bizarre report attacking socialism yesterday. Socialists can only take one lesson from it: we’re winning. by Miles Kampf-Lassin Part 3 - Whose Economic Freedom? In fact, what the CEA authors really mean when they talk about “economic freedom” is the freedom of the market to determine the functioning of the economy — freedom for the few to have no limits on how much wealth they can accumulate while the many are deprived of the freedoms that come from having their basic needs met. As Corey Robin explained, contesting the capitalist conception of freedom in the New York Times: “ When my wellbeing depends upon your whim, when the basic needs of life compel submission to the market and subjugation at work, we live not in freedom but in domination. Socialists want to end that domination: to establish freedom from rule by the boss, from the need to smile for the sake of a sale, from the obligation to sell for the sake of survival.

In the six weeks before Khashoggi’s disappearance, MBS not only managed to anger the U.S. military-industrial complex but the world’s most powerful bankers. by Whitney Webb Part 5 - The search begins for a new prince who will play along As a consequence of the Khashoggi incident, there have been several reports from prominent publications claiming that efforts are now underway to replace MBS as crown prince . One such report in France’s Le Figaro has stated that MBS is set to be “gradually” replaced by his even younger brother Khalid bin Salman, who has most recently served as the Saudi Ambassador to Washington. This choice is significant, as it shows that the powers-that-be are seeking to replace MBS with another McKinsey-bent “young Arab princeling” instead of the former Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef or another elder of the House of Saud who would oppose the privatization that MBS had promised but failed to deliver. In a Washington Post op-ed, Kha

Only by masking their otherwise unpopular policies in the cloak of Jo Cox’s tragedy, and humanity’s natural empathy for good samaritans and the downtrodden, has this small group of powerful individuals been able to launder disastrous wars and military adventurism as “the right thing to do.” by Vanessa Beeley and Whitney Webb Part 6 - UN Foundation, Concordia Summit and the White Helmets Three months after Jo Cox’s murder in September 2016, two of the Jo Cox Fund originators — Tim Dixon of Purpose and Nick Grono, CEO of the Freedom Fund — took part in the annual Concordia Summit. Dixon was a key participant in the Private Sector Forum on Migration and Refugees, with a focus on the Purpose-”incubated” refugee and migration hub. Their Objective? To change hearts and minds in Europe in relation to the refugee “crisis” — a Syria-centric “crisis” that has been largely manufactured and sensationalized with the aim of criminalizing the Syrian government. The reality is that

Μαρτυρία διασώστη στο Tvxs Φωτεινή Λαμπρίδη Η υποστολή της σημαίας του Aquarius και το τέλος της ελπίδας «Οι αρχές της Μάλτας και της Ιταλίας κατάσχεσαν τέσσερα πλοία διασωστικά. Μέσα στον Αύγουστο αφαιρέθηκε από το Aquarius η σημαία του Γιβραλτάρ. Βρήκαμε Παναμέζικη. Πριν δύο εβδομάδες και ο Παναμάς υπέστειλε τη σημαία του Αquarius. Τέρμα τα διασωστικά στην περιοχή. Γιατί; Μας είπαν ότι δεν σεβαστήκαμε τα πρωτόκολλο Διάσωσης. Δηλαδή δεν δώσαμε τους ανθρώπους στους νόμιμους διασώστες, στο λιμενικό της Λιβύης. Στην πραγματικότητα δέχτηκαν πολιτικές πιέσεις από την Ιταλία. Κυκλοφόρησε πως η Ιταλία τους εκβίασε ότι θα κλείσει τα λιμάνια για όλα τα Παναμέζικα πλοία. Όμως εμείς φυσικά δεν μπορούσαμε να δώσουμε τους πρόσφυγες στους νόμιμους διασώστες τους γιατί αυτό ισοδυναμεί με καταπάτηση του Διεθνούς Δικαίου. Απαγορεύεται να επιστρέψεις άνθρωπο στον τόπο του βασανισμού του. Είσαι υποχρεωμένος να τον μεταφέρεις στο πλησιέστερο ασφαλές λιμάνι. Αυτά είναι της Μάλτας ή τη

Γιώργος Στάμκος Μέρος 4ο - “Δεν έχουμε ψωμί, δεν έχουμε γαλέτα, δεν έχουμε όπλα!”: Από τη Γενική Επιστράτευση στην Εκεχειρία Η αργοπορημένη απόφαση των Χουντικών για γενική επιστράτευση στην Ελλάδα, η οποία αποφασίστηκε στις 20.7.1974, μετέφερε το χάος που δημιούργησαν στην Κύπρο και εντός της Ελλάδας. Χαρακτηριστικές είναι οι φράσεις που ακούγονταν από τους επίστρατους Έλληνες στρατιώτες: “ Δεν έχουμε ψωμί, δεν έχουμε γαλέτα, δεν έχουμε όπλα! ” Σύμφωνα με τον στρατηγό Σιαπκαρά: “ οι επίστρατοι μπουκάρανε στις αποθήκες της επιστράτευσης ”. Από την πλευρά του ο Πολίτης κατέθεσε ότι “ γέμισαν οι μονάδες επιστράτευσης από αυτοκίνητα και από ανθρώπους που ήθελαν να πάνε να πολεμήσουν και δεν μπορούσαν ούτε να τους ντύσουν ”. Σε κάποιες άλλες περιπτώσεις οι επίστρατοι, ακόμη και σε παραμεθόριες μονάδες, αντί για όπλα και πυρομαχικά έβρισκαν στα κιβώτια των στρατιωτικών αποθηκών πέτρες! Οι φήμες έλεγαν πως δεν τους εξόπλιζαν διότι η Χούντα φοβότανε πως οι επίστρατοι θα έκαναν

globinfo freexchange In a recent interview at the Greek channel, Crete TV, the former Greek Minister of Finance, Yanis Varoufakis, made some interesting revelations. Among other things, he actually confirmed what the blog thought until now to be an exaggerated far-right conspiracy theory. He essentially confirmed that George Soros intervenes directly to political leaderships, substituting political institutions in Europe and elsewhere. Varoufakis said that, on June, 2015, George Soros tried to contact Alexis Tsipras via his own ‘channels’. In the interview, Varoufakis claims that he had no idea what Soros wanted to talk about. As Varoufakis also writes in his book Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment, for years he has been falsely portrayed by the pro-troika establishment and the anti-Semitic Right as Soros’s stooge in Greece. Yet, Soros’s message to the Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, came as a perverse vindication. ‘ Fire

Anya Parampil reports on a recent criminal complaint filed against the leader of the white supremacist “Rise Above Movement”, which alleges group members traveled to Europe in order to celebrate Hitler’s birthday and meet with likeminded organizations. The FBI specifically claims the Azov Battalion, a regiment of the Ukrainian National Guard known for Nazi sympathies, “ participated in training and radicalizing United States-based white supremacy organizations ”. RT Producer, Nebojsa Malic, joins Anya to explain how Ukrainian Nazis have been emboldened since the 2014 US-backed coup in the country.