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Moderate Rebels The Minneapolis cop who murdered George Floyd, setting off a protest movement, Derek Chauvin, started his career as a military police officer at the notorious Fort Benning, a base named after a Confederate general that is home to the School of the Americas (now called WHINSEC), where the US Army has trained countless Latin American dictators, death squads, torturers, assassins, and coup-plotters. Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton  speak with anti-war veteran Camilo Mejía, who was trained at Fort Benning, about the deep links between US imperialism, white supremacy, and police violence.

Empire Files Abby Martin covers the whole truth about the Afghanistan War, from the CIA construct of the 80's through today's senseless stalemate. Two decades, three administrations, tens of thousands of lives; it's time to #EndTheForeverWar.

The Hill Co-Founding Editor of The Intercept Glenn Greenwald discusses developments in the indictment against Wikileak's founder Julian Assange.

globinfo freexchange Δεν θυμόμαστε ανάλογο προηγούμενο, ούτε στην Ελλάδα, ούτε παγκοσμίως. Μια κυβέρνηση ισχυρή και αυτοδύναμη, πριν καλά-καλά κλείσει χρόνο, να συμπεριφέρεται σαν να μη κυβερνάει και να επιτίθεται με τέτοια λύσσα σε αξιωματική αντιπολίτευση. Πρόκειται για άλλη μια ισχυρή ένδειξη για το γεγονός ότι η κυβέρνηση Μητσοτάκη και τα κέντρα εξουσίας πίσω από αυτή, ακόμα φοβούνται τον ΣΥΡΙΖΑ και επιθυμούν διακαώς τη στρατηγική του ήττα. Η συμπεριφορά της κυβέρνησης προσομοιώνει φοβικά καθεστώτα που τρέμουν στην ιδέα ότι μπορεί να καταρρεύσουν απότομα. Έτσι, η φοβική συμπεριφορά του Μητσοτακικού καθεστώτος (η οποία θυμίζει άλλες εποχές), με έντονα σημάδια πανικού, οφείλεται  κατά κύριο λόγο στο γεγονός ότι δεν κατάφερε να ελέγξει απόλυτα την πληροφόρηση που φτάνει στο μέσο πολίτη. Κάποτε, στην εποχή του κλασικού δεξιού παρακράτους, κάτι τέτοιο ήταν απόλυτα εφικτό. Αλλά στην εποχή του διαδικτύου, των εναλλακτικών πηγών πληροφόρησης και των σόσιαλ μίντια, δεν είναι καθόλο

Φωτεινή Λαμπρίδη Μπαρουτοκαπνισμένο πεδίο συνεχίζει να είναι η πολύπαθη ΕΡΤ, σύμφωνα με τα λεγόμενα των ίδιων των εργαζομένων. Το εξώδικο της ΠΟΣΠΕΡΤ στον πρωθυπουργό Κυριάκο Μητσοτάκη, είναι η κορυφή του παγόβουνου, στους πρόποδες του οποίου υπάρχουν καταγγελίες από δημοσιογράφους και εκπροσώπους συλλογικοτήτων και επαγγελματικών ομάδων, για αναξιοκρατία, χειραγώγηση και ασφυκτικό έλεγχο του περιεχομένου υπέρ της κυβέρνησης. Την ίδια στιγμή, εκατοντάδες εργαζόμενοι της ΕΡΤ, συνεχίζουν να διεκδικούν δεδουλευμένα που τους οφείλει η Δημόσια Ραδιοτηλεόραση, από την Περίοδο συγκυβέρνησης Σαμαρά - Βενιζέλου και δηλώνουν στο tvxs.gr εξαντλημένοι από την επταετή δικαστική διαμάχη. ΠΟΣΠΕΡΤ προς Μητσοτάκη: Καταστρατηγείτε νόμους και δικαιώματα Η ΠΟΣΠΕΡΤ με το  εξώδικο που έστειλε στον πρωθυπουργό, καταγγέλλει πως ο επιδιωκόμενος Επιχειρησιακός Σχεδιασμός, γίνεται με παράνομες διαδικασίες αφού δεν έχουν προηγηθεί οι απαραίτητες σύμφωνα με τον ελληνικό και ευρωπαϊκό νόμο διαβουλεύσεις. Τον

Like the mysterious figure it is named for, the Caesar sanctions bill is the product of an elaborate deception by shadowy US- and Gulf-backed operatives. Instead of protecting Syrian civilians, the unilateral measures are driving them towards hunger and death. by Max Blumenthal Part 2 - Washington encourages Syrian famine as “an opportunity” Authorized by Congress with no opposition, the so-called Caesar Civilian Protection Act amounts to an act of all out war on the very people it claims to protect. Targeting the Syrian Central Bank and penalizing any foreign company that does business with Damascus, the bill was conceived with the explicit aim of preventing the country from rebuilding after it defeated a proxy war imposed on it by the West, Israel, Turkey, and Gulf monarchies. Charles Lister, a Gulf-backed de facto lobbyist for the Syrian opposition in Washington, inadvertently revealed the Caesar Act as an instrument of financial terror. In an op-ed for Politico th

The International Atomic Energy Agency has once again lent itself to the political interests of the United States and Israel, provoking a needless conflict with Iran by Gareth Porter Part 3 - Israel enhances its position in the IAEA This Israeli lobbying coincided with the first phase of a transition within the IAEA that would ultimately advance Tel Aviv’s position. Director General Yukio Amano underwent an unspecified medical procedure in September 2018, grew steadily weaker with a serious illness, and died on July 2, 2019.  Before his physical decline, Amano had announced plans to step down by March 2020, touching off a competition between senior IAEA officials for election to the top position. US and Israeli influence was immediately enhanced by the race, because any interested candidate required substantial backing from Washington for the requisite votes among the agency’s board of directors. The Israelis had focused the IAEA’s attention on an alleged Iranian

A Trump-like Mexican oligarch, Gilberto Lozano, is leading a coalition of corporate leaders and far-right fanatics called FRENA to try to overthrow President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. by José Guadalupe Argüello III and Ben Norton Part 2 - The extremist National Anti-AMLO Front (FRENA) proposes a color revolution On May 30 and throughout the weekend of June 13 and 14, traffic across Mexico was disrupted with motorcades of honking cars displaying signs of opposition to President López Obrador. In the days leading up to the event, opposition supporters in the country, and in parts of the United States, had been called to protest in vehicle caravans under the slogan “Andrés López, we don’t want you.” The group that organized these protests calls itself the National Anti-AMLO Front (Frente Nacional Anti-AMLO in Spanish), and uses the acronym FRENAAA, typically simplified to FRENA. This far-right Mexican group modeled its demonstrations against AMLO after similar protests

Mexico’s oligarchs and establishment political parties have united in a secret alliance to try to remove left-wing President López Obrador from power, with help from the media, Washington, and Wall Street. Leaked documents lay out their devious strategy. by Ben Norton  Part 3 - Mexico’s establishment political parties and former presidents unite to oust AMLO With backing from the US government and utter dominance of media narratives, the Broad Opposition Bloc plan is to unite all of Mexico’s establishment political parties. Together, these parties could potentially run candidates under the BOA umbrella, according to the document. Their goal would be, in the 2021 legislative elections, to end the majority that AMLO’s left-wing party Morena won in Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies.  After that, BOA states clearly that it plans to block reforms in the Mexican legislature, and ultimately impeach President López Obrador by 2022 — at least two years before his term ends.

by Mara Hvistendahl, Alleen Brown Part 2 - A History of Collaboration The United States has a long history of vigilantes working with police and government officials to oppress Black and Indigenous people. As European Americans violently settled Indigenous territories, the U.S. government offered rewards for the scalps of those they sought to displace. In the Jim Crow South, violent mobs lynched thousands of Black Americans, often advertising the killings in the newspaper ahead of time. Police sometimes attended, and many of the victims were political activists. “ There’s a very close connection historically between the police and vigilantes in the United States, ” said Noël Cazenave, a sociologist at the University of Connecticut and author of “Killing African Americans: Police and Vigilante Violence as a Racial Control Mechanism.” Vigilante mobs tend to flare up in reaction to a perceived increase in the power held by Black people, he said. In the Jim Crow South, the trig