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globinfo freexchange Spain appears to be the first country that will implement a permanent form of Universal Basic Income for its citizens. As the Independent reported : [emphasis added] Spain’s cabinet has approved the creation of a national minimum income, according to a government spokesperson. Deputy Prime Minister Pablo Iglesias told a news conference on Friday the creation of a minimum income worth €462 (£416.92) a month will target some 850,000 households or 2.5 million people. The government would pay the monthly stipend and top up existing revenue for people earning less so that they receive at least that minimum amount every month, he said. The minimum income would increase with the number of family members, up to a maximum of €1,015 (£916.30) each month. The programme would cost the government about €3 billion a year. Mr Iglesias said: “ Today is a historic day for our democracy. Today this government is showing that its political choice is social justice

The head of the Minneapolis Police Officer’s Federation has claimed that activists from the city’s Black Lives Matter movement comprises a “ terrorist organization. ” But a closer look at Lieutenant Bob Kroll’s record indicates that he is the one who poses a danger to the public, with a past marred in accusations of racist violence and attitudes, including charges from fellow police officers that he once wore a “white power” badge on his motorcycle jacket.  Kroll’s outrageous statement about local civil rights protesters is part of a wider of pattern of incorporating war on terror-style rhetoric to demonize local African-American activists and politicians, even comparing them to the Islamic extremists who attacked the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Such devices have also been routinely used across the country to criminalize Muslim-American communities, which face arbitrary surveillance, profiling and entrapment at the hands of law enforcement authorities. Speaking at a press co

Status Coup Status Coup's Jordan Chariton speaks with Phillip Agnew, an activist and adviser to Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign, about the police murder of African American George Floyd.

Going Underground Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza speaks after a coup attempt by Silvercorp mercenaries, which Venezuela alleges were hired by US President Donald Trump. He discusses Iran’s oil shipment to Venezuela along with assistance to revive Venezuela’s oil industry, US attempts to block the shipment, the uncovered secret Venezuelan Reconstruction Unit within the British Foreign Office which is alleged to be for post-regime change Venezuela. Allegations of Venezuela sponsoring terrorism by the United States, the US and EU’s support for Juan Guaido, a deal reached with the UN to allow Venezuela to access its Gold Reserves in the Bank of England which was prohibited by Boris Johnson. Venezuela’s Coronavirus response, the impact of US sanctions on ordinary Venezuelans, Venezuela’s relationship with Russia, China, Cuba and Iran, allegations of narco-trafficking by the United States against President Nicolas Maduro.

The Intercept Brazil’s political leadership, led by President Jair Bolsonaro, has denied the severity of the coronavirus pandemic and rejected measures to prevent its spread. The country has one of the highest new infection rates in the world. The São Paulo neighborhood of Paraisópolis has been hit hard. With 100,000 people squeezed into a little over three-quarters of a square mile, it is the most densely populated favela in Brazil. A neighborhood association in Paraisópolis is fighting to reduce the harm caused by the coronavirus. In the absence of government assistance, residents have set up an informal emergency-care system consisting of private ambulances, isolation hospitals set up in local schools, and street captains that each keep tabs on 50 neighborhood families.

Photographs surreptitiously taken inside a British courtroom and provided to The Grayzone show a visibly disoriented Julian Assange confined to a glass cage and unable to communicate with his lawyers. by Max Blumenthal Part 1 Photographs taken inside London’s Woolwich Crown Court and provided exclusively to The Grayzone highlight the un-democratic measures the British security state has imposed on jailed Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange. Captured during Assange’s extradition hearing, which took place between February 24 and 28, the images highlight the confinement Assange has been subjected to, as well as the physical deterioration he has experienced since he was arrested in April 2019 and jailed in a maximum security prison. On February 26, Judge Vanessa Baraitser vowed to hold anyone in contempt of court for taking photographs. However, an observer had taken several photos a day before the judge’s warning. Anonymous Scandinavia, a Sweden-based group of Wikil

An exclusive investigation by The Grayzone reveals new details on the critical role Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands played in an apparent CIA spying operation targeting Julian Assange, and exposes the Sands security staff who helped coordinate the malicious campaign. by Max Blumenthal “ I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. ” –Mike Pompeo, College Station, TX, April 15, 2019 Part 5 - From top US cyber-crime investigator to Adelson’s security chief During his lengthy career in the US Secret Service, Nagel worked at the nexus of federal law enforcement and US intelligence. In the 1990s, Nagel not only served on the personal protection detail of Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton; he was assigned to “ work with two foreign protective services after the assassination and attempted assassination of their respective heads of state, ” he said in sworn testimony in a US District Court in 2011. Nagel also stated that he later protected the director

Status Coup Status Coup 's Jordan Chariton reports LIVE from New York City from protests related to the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police.

LIVE on June 1, 9:30 PM The Intercept ’s Mehdi Hasan speaks with Rep. Ilhan Omar about systemic racism, the militarized police response to protests in Minneapolis, and what real justice looks like for George Floyd’s family and black and brown communities across the country.

Moderate Rebels Brazilian independent journalist Nathália Urban discusses the surge of fascist militias and Evangelical extremists in Brazil, where President Jair Bolsonaro is putting the military in power. Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton also address his refusal to do anything to stop the Covid-19 pandemic, and how Brazil has thus become the world's new epicenter. " Basically the military is in power in every ministry; they are overseeing everything in Brazil right now, " Nathália says.