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The Real News Network According to an analysis of the Center for Economic and Policy Analysis, Ecuador's recent IMF loan of $4.2 billion comes with strings that will hurt economic growth. Ecuador doesn't even need the loan, says the report's co-author, Andrés Arauz.

Global outcry erupted on Monday—with one critic condemning the move as "ethnic cleansing with impunity"—after Israeli forces demolished dozens of homes in Sur Baher, a Palestinian village that straddles East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. "These demolitions are a flagrant violation of international law and part of a systematic pattern by the Israeli authorities to forcibly displace Palestinians in the occupied territories; such actions amount to war crimes," Saleh Higazi, deputy Middle East and North Africa director for Amnesty International, said in a statement Monday. "Israel must immediately end its cruel and discriminatory policy of home demolitions and forced displacement," added Higazi. "Instead of destroying families' homes Israel must dismantle parts of the fence/wall built inside the occupied Palestinian territories, including in parts of Sur Baher, in violation of international law." Full report: https://www.

A straw poll released Monday by Democracy for America found that Sen. Bernie Sanders remains the top 2020 presidential choice among the group's more than one million progressive members, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren running less than seven points behind in second place. The online survey—which opened following the first round of Democratic presidential debates last month and closed after July 17—put Sanders in first place with 32.2 percent, Warren in second with 25.8 percent, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) in third with 11.8 percent, and former Vice President Joe Biden in fourth with 9.5 percent. Warren has gained significant ground among DFA members since the previous straw poll in April, in which the Massachusetts senator earned just 11 percent support while Sanders led the pack with 40 percent. The new poll also found that the Green New Deal and Medicare for All are far and away the two top priorities among DFA members heading into the 2020 presidential election. Im

The Grayzone The Grayzone 's Max Blumenthal rolled up on the Soto Cano / Palmerola air base in Honduras, the US military's largest in Latin America. It plays a key role in Washington's military strategy for Central America, and was a major factor behind the 2009 coup.

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Corporate media outlets blamed Nicaragua’s government for a deadly arson attack during the 2018 coup attempt, but new information raises serious doubts about the official story, highlighting the campaign of regime-change misinformation. by John Perry Part 2 - Dubious reports on arson attack The worst of these attacks occurred on June 16 last year. At 6 in the morning, in the Managua barrio known as Carlos Marx, masked youths threw Molotov cocktails into an occupied three-story house. Fire spread quickly from the ground floor, used for a family business of making mattresses, to the living rooms upstairs where the family was beginning its day. Neighbors rushed to help, but six people were burnt alive, including a baby and a 2-year-old girl. This could easily have been a self-inflicted blow to the “peaceful” image the protesters had created. But instead it became emblematic of the government’s supposed violent response to the protests. How was this achieved? Among thos

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 3 WHY haven’t the Scottish Labour party abandoned the Bain Principle? As a socialist it’s mind-boggling they haven’t!  As many readers will already know, the Bain Principle is named after Willie Bain, Labour MP for Glasgow North East (lost his seat to SNP in 2015). In a nutshell it states that Labour will oppose whatever the SNP propose no matter the circumstances! And, as indicated in yesterday’s National , to maintain this convention will even go to bed with the Tories!  Whoever the Scottish Labour advisers are, they surely need to be relieved of duty!  Labour has certainly lost its way. With the advent of Holyrood we all had hoped there would have been more co-operation as opposed to confrontation between parties. Sadly this hasn’t happened! Although I’m a passionate SNP suppo

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The Real News Network Khury Petersen-Smith outlines how Trump's untruths and policies are making America the aggressor, not Iran, and how American media from the New York Times to Fox News are falling for his rhetoric.

του system failure Διαδοχικά κύματα σοκ  έπληξαν τις τελευταίες μέρες τους ψηφοφόρους που βάλθηκαν να τιμωρήσουν τον 'προδότη' Τσίπρα για τη συμφωνία των Πρεσπών, επιλέγοντας στις πρόσφατες βουλευτικές εκλογές τη χειρότερη δεξιά της μεταπολίτευσης και μάλιστα αυτοδύναμη.  Μετά την επιλογή Μαυρωτά για τη θέση του Γενικού Γραμματέα Αθλητισμού, ο οποίος είχε υπερψηφίσει και υπερασπιστεί τη συμφωνία ως βουλευτής του Ποταμιού, ήρθαν άλλα δύο απανωτά χτυπήματα από τις δηλώσεις Παναγιωτόπουλου και Βαρβιτσιώτη.  Δεν είναι όμως μόνο η κραυγαλέα υποκρισία και αναδίπλωση των γαλάζιων στελεχών όσον αφορά τη συμφωνία. Είναι και το γεγονός ότι οι επικών διαστάσεων ' κολοτούμπες ' Παναγιωτόπουλου και Βαρβιτσιώτη, έγιναν σε συνέδριο του Economist .  Και έχει αυτό τόσο μεγάλη σημασία; Θα μπορούσε να αναρωτηθεί κανείς. Ουσιαστική, ίσως όχι και τόσο. Αλλά συμβολική, σίγουρα ναι.   Η συμπεριφορά Παναγιωτόπουλου-Βαρβιτσιώτη αποτελεί τυπικό χαρακτηριστικό του πολιτικού