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French police have used tear gas to disperse protesters who occupied the Champs Elysees hours after French President Emmanuel Macron together with European leaders took part in a military parade. Prior to the police reaction, the protesters started destroying the barriers installed on the streets, trying to build barricades and chanting yellow vest movement slogans.  According to a Sputnik correspondent, several people have been injured as a result of clashes between the police and the protesters. Minutes before the parade, clashes between activists and law enforcement officers also erupted in one of parade viewing zones. Police reportedly arrested three key members of the yellow vest movement, including its ideologist, Eric Drouet. The wave of the yellow vest rallies started in France in mid-November over planned hikes in fuel taxes. While the French government abandoned its plans to raise fuel taxes and introduced other measures to improve the country's socio-economic

While the BBC ratchets up its campaign against the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the timing of its Panorama programme couldn’t have been more perfect.  by Readers of The National  Part 1 The BBC is fearful that with the Tories tearing chunks out of each other, the socialist leader could be the next but one Prime Minister, but it could get worse for the BBC. The polls are suggesting the SNP could gain many more seats in a new parliament a double whammy nightmare scenario for our state broadcaster. Whenever the Tory party are in trouble the BBC helps them out; we’ve seen it in Scotland. In England, time and time again the anti-Semitism cudgel is wielded and it is all aimed directly at one man: the Labour leader.   To try to make sense of it all perhaps one way is to examine who would benefit most should there be success in damaging Jeremy Corbyn, compelling him to stand down? The Blairite right of the Labour party of course, who have never agreed on anything he stands

 του Στέλιου Κούλογλου Η γερμανική Deutsche Bank είναι η μεγάλη ασθενής του ευρωπαϊκού, και όχι μόνο, τραπεζικού συστήματος. Η μετοχή της πέφτει και τα προβλήματα συσσωρεύονται τα τελευταία τρία χρόνια, χώρια τα σκάνδαλα που έχουν κοστίσει δισεκατομμύρια σε πρόστιμα ή ακόμη διερευνώνται δικαστικά, όπως το ξέπλυμα μαύρου ρωσικού χρήματος. Αποτέλεσμα κακοδιαχείρισης, η πορεία της τράπεζας έχει οδηγήσει στην απομάκρυνση των υπεύθυνων ηγετικών στελεχών της. Τις προάλλες, παραδείγματος χάριν, αποφασίστηκε η απομάκρυνση του κ. Garth Ritchie,  επικεφαλής των επενδύσεων. To τμήμα του παρουσιάζει μειωμένα έσοδα τα τελευταία τρία χρόνια, ζημιές τα δύο τελευταία τρίμηνα και αναμένεται να καταρρεύσει το επόμενο διάστημα. Για τις ανδραγαθίες του του αυτές, ο κ. Ritchie πήρε αποζημίωση μόλις … 11 εκατομμύρια ευρώ. Ο πρώην διευθύνων σύμβουλος John Cryan 10,9 εκατομμύρια. Για τους προηγούμενους και τα υπόλοιπα 7 ηγετικά στελέχη που επίσης απολύθηκαν ή αποχώρησαν τον τελευταίο χρόνο, η τράπε

globinfo freexchange It is remarkable how the independent information, flowing through internet, changed the balance between non-controlled and completely controlled information reaching the average viewer by the mainstream media. Thousands of independent blogs and websites host information, analyses and opinions which normally would have been blocked in case that internet had not been invented yet. It's true of course that there is a lot of misinformation and propaganda circulated through the internet too, as the mainstream media also participate in the "web war" of information, or, due to other independent sources who have their own secret agenda. But, at least, one has the option to find a different point of view and information, other than that promoted by the "official channels" of the dominant - currently Western - systemic establishment. This is probably the reason that governments already trying to find ways to control internet and therefore

The Grayzone The Grayzone 's Anya Parampil reports from inside a student occupation at the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH), where US-trained troops shot activists protesting the Juan Orlando Hernandez government's attempt to privatize education and healthcare.

Scientists from Princeton University have created an electronic array fitted aboard a microchip capable of simulating the structure of space-time inside a black hole, Phys.org reports. Ordinarily, computers are incapable of calculating the behaviour of complex quantum materials and systems, Alicia Kollar, the study's lead author and postdoctoral researcher at the Princeton Center for Complex Materials, explained. The solution, according to the researcher, lies in allowing nature to do the "hard part" of the computations.  [...] The first results of researchers' work were published in this month's issue of Nature . The custom-built array uses superconducting resonators arranged in a lattice pattern to simulate a hyperbolic plane, the geometric surface in which space curves away from itself at every point. On the centimetre-sized chip, microwave photons can move along the resonators in a heptagonal pattern and interact with one another on a flat, two dimen

Democracy Now! Since the 2009 US-backed military coup in Honduras, extreme poverty and violence has skyrocketed in the country, forcing tens of thousands of Hondurans to flee to the US with the hope of receiving political asylum. Democracy Now! spoke with ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in the capital of Tegucigalpa about the 10th anniversary of the coup in Honduras, US intervention in Central America and its link to today’s migration crisis.

globinfo freexchange Η νέα κυβέρνηση Μητσοτάκη έσπευσε να αναγνωρίσει τον αποτυχημένο πραξικοπηματία Χουάν Γκουαϊδό , ο οποίος, παρά την υποστήριξη της Ουάσινγκτον, δεν κατάφερε να ανατρέψει τη νόμιμα εκλεγμένη κυβέρνηση του Νικολάς Μαδούρο στη Βενεζουέλα. Η κίνηση αυτή αποτελεί άλλη μια απόδειξη ότι ακόμα και η εξωτερική πολιτική της κυβέρνησης θα καθορίζεται, ως επί το πλείστον, από τον τυφλό φανατισμό της και όχι από μελετημένες κινήσεις που απαιτούν συνεχείς ελιγμούς και συνετές αποφάσεις.   Αν η νέα κυβέρνηση παρακολουθούσε στοιχειωδώς τις εξελίξεις, θα έπρεπε να γνωρίζει ότι:  1ον: Το αποτυχημένο πραξικόπημα του Γκουαϊδό και η Δυτική προπαγάνδα εναντίον της κυβέρνησης Μαδούρο , έπεσαν στο κενό. Ο λαός της Βενεζουέλας συνεχίζει να στηρίζει την κυβέρνηση Μαδούρο , καθώς ο άτσαλος και θρασύς Ντόναλντ Τραμπ , όπως και οι εγκληματίες σύμβουλοί του, υποστήριξαν απροκάλυπτα τον πραξικοπηματία Γκουαϊδό και μάλιστα μίλησαν ανοιχτά και για στρατιωτική εισβολή εναντίον τ

globinfo freexchange In the beginning of the year, France, Germany and the United Kingdom announced the creation of INSTEX (Instrument for Supporting Trade Exchanges), a special program aimed to bypass US sanctions against Iran. It appears that the move alarmed the US empire apparatus, which, as a first reaction, attempted to downgrade its significance. Indeed, about a month ago, the Atlantic Council (a top US think tank), reported :           By not appointing senior officials from E3 [Britain, France, Germany] finance ministries or central banks to lead INSTEX, these countries are intentionally or unintentionally conveying a message to the Iranian government, as well as to EU and Iranian companies and banks: the E3 consider establishing INSTEX as a political move rather than an effort to create a viable trade mechanism. If interpreted that way, Iran will consider this as a maneuver by the E3 to shy away from its commitments under the JCPOA due to US pressure. However, this c

New York Times reporter Sydney Ember has a problem with Bernie Sanders—which may be why the paper has her cover him. Ember is supposed to write reported articles, not op-eds, but she consistently paints a negative picture of Sanders’ temperament, history, policies and/or political prospects in the over two dozen pieces she’s done on him. This makes sense, given the New York Times ’ documented anti-Sanders bias, which can be found among both editors and reporters alike. The paper was caught making significant changes, without acknowledging them, to a 2016 article on Sanders hours after it went up:  It changed the headline (from “Bernie Sanders Scored Victories for Years via Legislative Side Doors,” to “Via Legislative Side Doors, Bernie Sanders Won Modest Victories”); deleted a positive quote from a campaign advisor; and added two negative paragraphs. Even after the paper’s public editor chastised the Times for the practice known as stealth editing, the editors defended the chang