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Car bomb destroys Turkish police building in Cizre, at least 9 dead

At least nine people killed and dozens more injured in border town attack blamed on PKK militants A car bomb blamed on Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels on Friday exploded outside a police headquarters in Turkey's southeastern town of Cizre, killing at least nine people according to security sources. The bomb attack, which struck a checkpoint about 50 metres from the building, caused immense damage to the headquarters of the special anti-riot police force in Cizre, with television pictures showing an immense plume of black smoke heading into the sky. Security sources told the Reuters news agency that at least nine people had been killed and 64 others injured. Full report: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/car-bomb-devastates-turkish-police-headquarters-cizre-1191355667

Who believes Erdogan?

An estimation about the recent Turkish invasion in North Syria failed evolution It's hard for someone to believe that the Turkish ground forces invaded North Syria to fight ISIS. It seems that the US officials decided to calm down Tayyip Erdoğan and let him play his game for a while, in order to make him forget Fethullah Gülen and the failed coup of July. Obama doesn't want to risk further with the unpredictable Turkish leader, especially after he showed that he may turn to Putin. Obama also wants to leave without risking further mess in the Middle East chaotic puzzle. He will leave the "hot potato" to the hands of the next US presidency. Erdoğan knows that he has limited time before Clinton or Trump in the US presidency. Therefore, he tries to take as much as he can and negotiate from a power position when the Syrian hell will end someday. Right now, Erdoğan's main concern is to retain his agenda, thus exploit the chaos in

Ο Τσίπρας συνεχίζει να έχει αυταπάτες ...

του system failure Αφού βρήκε κλειστές πόρτες στην άλλη πλευρά του Ατλαντικού , ο Αλέξης Τσίπρας θα δοκιμάσει την τύχη του στον Ευρωπαϊκό χώρο, με την πρωτοβουλία για τη διάσκεψη των Μεσογειακών χωρών της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης στην Αθήνα στις 9 Σεπτεμβρίου. Εντωμεταξύ, έξι χρόνια έχουν ήδη περάσει από τη στιγμή που η Ελλάδα πέρασε το κατώφλι της νεοφιλελεύθερης κόλασης, που της επιβλήθηκε από τους δανειστές και κατέστρεψε την οικονομία. Από τον Γάλλο επίτροπο, Πιερ Μοσκοβισί, μέχρι και τον Αμερικανό υπουργό οικονομικών, Τζακ Λιου, το νεοφιλελεύθερο κατεστημένο της Δύσης επαναλαμβάνει μονότονα την ανάγκη για περισσότερες "μεταρρυθμίσεις". Δηλαδή, περισσότερο ξεπούλημα δημόσιας περιουσίας μέσω ιδιωτικοποιήσεων έναντι πινακίου φακής, περισσότερη "ευελιξία" στα εργασιακά, περισσότερη καταστροφή του κοινωνικού κράτους, περισσότερη λιτότητα. Και όλα αυτά, παρά τις αμέτρητες καταστροφές που επέφεραν οι πολιτικές του ΔΝΤ στο παρελθόν σε άλλες χώ

From drone killings to hospital bombings: 15 years of civilian deaths in the global war on terror

Doctors Without Borders asked ‘the U.S., U.K. and France to ensure an immediate application of measures to substantially increase the protection of civilians’ after the latest deadly hospital bombing in Yemen. by Kit O'Connell The recent bombing of a hospital in northwestern Yemen has drawn international outrage and new criticism of the Saudi-led, U.S.-backed forces fighting there, but it’s just the latest in a slew of war crimes committed over the past 15 years in the name of the U.S.-backed global war on terror. Nineteen people were killed and 24 were injured in the Aug. 15 bombing, which struck Abs Hospital in northwestern Yemen. Among the dead was Abdul Kareem al Hakeemi, a staff member of Doctors Without Borders (frequently referred to by its French name, Médecins sans Frontières, or MSF). It was the fourth and deadliest bombing of an MSF-supported hospital since the attacks on Yemen began in early 2015, leading the NGO to evacuate its six

Chilean artist steals & destroys $500 million worth of student debt papers

An artist who goes by the name of Papas Fritas (which means “french fries”) is being revered as a modern-day Robin Hood due to his recent activism. The Chilean resident allegedly stole $500 million worth in student debt papers and burned them in a defiant act of art. [...] In case you are not aware, the price for higher education in Chile is among the highest in the world. This is because, in 1973, General Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship took control of the country and privatized the education system. Universities are now for-profit, and citizens are tired of paying for education, which they believe should be a universal right. [...] Papas Fritas, whose real name is Francisco Tapia, claims to have been a part of the recent student takeover of the Universidad del Mar. His contribution was to collect the $500 million in student debt papers, burn them, and pour the ashes into a bin for an exhibit. The University now faces multiple headaches in secu

Wall Street vultures over debt-enslaved Puerto Rico

‘ Any “bailout” that might occur … seems directed only at the Wall Street vultures who now control most of the debt,’ Déborah Berman-Santana tells MintPress News in a sprawling interview about the debt crisis in Puerto Rico. Despite only making headlines in recent months, the economic crisis in Puerto Rico has been developing and worsening for the past several years, a crisis which has led to Puerto Rico being dubbed “the Greece of the Caribbean.” In this interview, Déborah Berman-Santana, professor emeritus of geography and ethnic studies at Mills College in Oakland, California, analyzes the latest developments in Puerto Rico. Berman-Santana is the author of “Kicking Off The Bootstraps: Environment, Development, and Community Power in Puerto Rico,” a detailed analysis of “Operation Bootstrap,” a post-World War II industrial program launched by the United States that was one of the very first of its kind in the world. Speaking to MintPress News, Ber

Venezuela and other Latin America countries-targets confirmed by the IMF

globinfo freexchange After destroying Greece with the help of the European Financial Dictatorship , the IMF mafia is ready to invade Latin America ... again. On late July, a statement by the Fund actually revealed its main targets currently in the region. From latino.foxnews : The International Monetary Fund forecasts for 2016 a contraction in Latin America's average GDP of 0.4 percent, due mainly to economic problems in Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, a senior IMF official said here Tuesday. The head of the IMF's Western Hemisphere Department, the Mexican economist Alejandro Werner, took part in a Montevideo conference on structural reforms. " The panorama of Latin America is largely determined by economies like Venezuela, which faces a considerable projected contraction (some 10 percent); Brazil, which will experience a decline similar to last year's; and Argentina, obviously because of the transition g

Provoking nuclear war by media

by John Pilger The exoneration of a man accused of the worst of crimes, genocide, made no headlines. Neither the BBC nor CNN covered it. The Guardian allowed a brief commentary. Such a rare official admission was buried or suppressed, understandably. It would explain too much about how the rulers of the world rule. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has quietly cleared the late Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, of war crimes committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, including the massacre at Srebrenica. Far from conspiring with the convicted Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, Milosevic actually “condemned ethnic cleansing”, opposed Karadzic and tried to stop the war that dismembered Yugoslavia. Buried near the end of a 2,590-page judgement on Karadzic last February, this truth further demolishes the propaganda that justified Nato’s illegal onslaught on Serbia in 1999. Milosevic died of a heart attack in 2006, alone in his

Who profited from the $440 billion Greek bailout? Not Greeks

Hundreds of billions of dollars in loans haven't helped the Greek economy or its people by Jack Rasmus This week marks the first anniversary of the 2015 Greek debt crisis, the third in that country's recent history since 2010. Last Aug. 20-21, 2015, the 'Troika'—i.e., the pan-European institutions of the European Commission (EC), the European Central Bank (ECB), plus the IMF-imposed a third debt deal on Greece. Greece was given US$98 billion in loans from the Troika. A previous 2012 Troika imposed debt deal had added nearly US$200 billion to an initial 2010 debt deal of US$140 billion. That's approximately US$440 billion in Troika loans over a five year period, 2010-2015. The question is: who is benefitting from the US$440 billion? It's not Greece. If not the Greek economy and its people, then who? And have we seen the last of Greek debt crises? One might think that US$440 billion in loans would have helped Greece recover fro

In praise of WikiLeaks

Dr. Jill Stein WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a hero. Like Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, and other whistleblowers facing government persecution, Assange has sacrificed his personal comfort and safety to bring us the truth. George Orwell said, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” Thanks to WikiLeaks, we know that powerful institutions have been abusing their power and lying to the public. For example, redacted State Department communications published by WikiLeaks revealed that Secretary Clinton identified Saudi Arabia as a leading funding source for terrorist groups around the time she approved a whopping $29 billion arms deal with the Saudi dictatorship. WikiLeaks courageously published the infamous “Collateral Murder” video showing an American helicopter gunning down Iraqi civilians, Viewed over 15 million times on Youtube alone, it revealed just one of the many shocking war crimes whitewashed as “collateral