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YouTube algorithm is now directing you towards corporate media propaganda, eliminating independent news competitors

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

US-trained troops shoot Honduran students protesting privatization

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.

Physicists recreate conditions of a black hole inside a computer chip

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

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya: The 2009 US-backed coup helped cause today’s migrant crisis

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.

Φανατικοί και επικίνδυνοι: η κυβέρνηση Μητσοτάκη έσπευσε να αναγνωρίσει τον αποτυχημένο πραξικοπηματία Χουάν Γκουαϊδό

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

European Union takes further steps towards bypassing US sanctions against Iran

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

NYT reporter hides corporate ties of Bernie Sanders critics she highlights

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

Ο σοσιαλισμός δεν είναι πια απαγορευμένη λέξη στις ΗΠΑ

 Αλέξανδρος Ζέρβας Μέρος 4ο - Αναλύοντας το «φαινόμενο Σάντερς» Για να έρθουμε όμως στο σήμερα, πολλοί αναλυτές επισημαίνουν πως οι επιτυχίες του Μπέρνι Σάντερς στις προκριματικές του 2016 αλλά και η αυξανόμενη δημοφιλία του έχουν να κάνουν με την προσδοκία ότι αυτός θα μπορούσε να αλλάξει την πολιτική κατεύθυνση ενός από τα παραδοσιακά κόμματα εξουσίας. Είναι χαρακτηριστικό ότι  ούτε ο ανεξάρτητος υποψήφιος, Ραλφ Νέιντερ, αλλά ούτε κι Ντεμπς  είχαν πετύχει τόσο μεγάλη διείσδυση στο εσωτερικό του αμερικάνικου πολιτικού κατεστημένου. Από την άλλη, ίσως να οφείλεται και στο γεγονός ότι η περίφημη κοινωνική κινητικότητα, που έκανε τους Αμερικάνους τόσο εχθρικούς απένατι στις σοσιαλιστικές ιδέες, έπαψε να ισχύει -στην ανοδική της πορεία- τα τελευταία 40 χρόνια. Με άλλα λόγια, είναι το τέλος του «αμερικάνικου ονείρου» που βάζει το προσκήνιο τον σοσιαλισμό στις ΗΠΑ, καθώς ακόμη κι αυτοί που θεωρητικά το είχαν κατακτήσει βρίσκονται πλέον σε κίνδυνο. Σε αντίθεση με τη σημερινή πρα

The four biggest lies about inequality included in the typical neoliberal propaganda

globinfo freexchange Lie number one: The rich and CEOs are America’s job creators, so we dare not tax them The truth is, the middle class and poor are the job-creators through their purchases of goods and services. If they don’t have enough purchasing power because they’re not paid enough, companies won’t create more jobs and the economy won’t grow. The giant Trump-Republican tax-cut for corporations and the rich hasn't trickled down to ordinary Americans. It has just made the rich even richer.  Lie number two: People are paid what they’re worth in the market, so we shouldn’t tamper with pay Wrong. Four decades ago, CEOs of big companies got 30 times the pay of typical workers. In 2017, they got 361 times their workers’ pay. Not because they’ve done such a great job, but because they control the compensation committees of their boards. They’re using corporate profits to buy back even more shares of stock so their total compensation rises even more. And, they're mon

As Yemen starves, international aid agencies play politics with food

One woman and four children are among seven family members killed by a Coalition airstrike on a home in Yemen’s Khadir district in the southwestern province of Taiz. Five other civilians were reportedly injured in the attack, regarding which the Coalition has thus far not commented. Two of the airstrikes targeted the family home of Abdulqawi al-Kindi, a businessman who worked extensively to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in the Khadir region. Al-Kindi, his wife and sons were all killed in the attack that completely destroyed their three-story family home. “ He [al-Kindi] helped many poor and displaced families here, ” an eyewitness to the attack told MintPress , as tears flowed from his face while local rescuers attempted to retrieve bodies from the rubble. “ Al-Kindi did not belong to any party or group — he was just a businessman. ”  The attack has angered local residents who still remember Saudi Coalition bombings in recent years that have targeted a school bus, mourning