domingo, 31 de diciembre de 2017

Pulitzer Winner Exposes Facebook's 'Censorship Rampage' at US & Israel's Behest - Sputnik International

Absolute power, doing what it does best, as Facebook again in the hot seat for censorship

REWIND: The complete Video Series on the Military Industrial Complex

REWIND: The complete acTVism Video Series on the Military Industrial Complex

VIDEO: The Military Industrial Complex with Jeremy Scahill

As Guns Fall Silent, Russia to Shape Syria’s Political Endgame

Watch early in 2018 for peace talks in Sochi, focusing initially on
drafting a new constitution that will be rubber-stamped at UN-mandated
talks in Geneva

Empty Homes Outnumber The Homeless 6 To 1, So Why Not Give Them Homes?

Almost 600,000 people experience homelessness on any given night in the United States.

Noam Chomsky on 'The So-Called Rise of China' (2017) - FREE WILL

Noam Chomsky on 'The So-Called Rise of China' (2017)
https://t.co/eopwz0UG2y

ISIS' "Diaspora" Brings US New Opportunities for Its Geopolitical Agenda

ISIS’ “Diaspora” Brings US New Opportunities for Its Geopolitical Agenda

The fall of ISIS and in Syria and Iraq signals a new era in the
groups future. With eyes now on other battlefield theatres, the group
is continually expanding in countries central to the U.S. vs Russian war
of influence.

by
Darius Shahtahmasebi

Liberal Zionists have nothing to say about Ahed Tamimi's slap and arrest

When liberal Zionist groups say anything about Ahed Tamimi, the
16-year-old Palestinian girl who has been imprisoned without charges for
slapping an Israeli soldier occupying her back yard, it̵…

Ahed Tamimi slaps an Israeli soldier, occupying her family's property in
Nabi Saleh, on December 15, 2017. Drawing by Katie Miranda.

Extreme poverty returns to America - The Washington Post

TomDispatch

A
piece from the Washington Post I just came across by Premilla Nadasen
lays out the rise of extreme poverty in the U.S. in our era. Thanks to
the shredding of the safety net and the rise of inequality in recent
decades, the U.S. has the lowest rate of social mobility and the highest
rate of child poverty in the developed world. Now, there's something
to be proud of as 2017 ends! Tom

“Finish all your food,” my
mother used to tell me. “There’s a child in Africa who would love to
have that food on your plate.” It was an effective disciplinary
approach, especially because my family is from Africa. But my experience
is not unique. Images of poverty in the “Third World” — then and now —
permeate American society, reassuring us about our country’s ostensible
democratic promise and potential for upward mobility. What economists
call “extreme poverty,” most Americans think, is a distant problem, a
hallmark of the less developed world.

"But could extreme poverty
also be a feature of what is (although perhaps not for long) one of the
richest and most powerful nations in the world? Quite possibly. To
answer the question, the United Nations launched an investigation of
extreme poverty in the United States.

"Philip Alston, the United
Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, has just
wrapped up a 15-day tour of the United States. His team visited
Alabama, California, Puerto Rico, West Virginia and Washington, D.C. The
findings, released last Friday, documented homelessness, unsafe
sanitation and sewage disposal practices, as well as police
surveillance, criminalization and harassment of the poor. The rise in
poverty, they found, disproportionately affects people of color and
women, but also large swaths of white Americans. The report concluded
that the pervasiveness of poverty and inequality “are shockingly at odds
with [the United States’] immense wealth and its founding commitment to
human rights.”

"To be sure, poverty in the United States is not
equivalent to poverty in less developed countries. This has never been a
country free of inequality and poverty, but their rapid growth over the
past two decades has undermined any professed commitment to equal
opportunity or the belief that the nation’s prosperity rests on the
well-being of ordinary Americans.

"In the late 19th and early
20th centuries, unfettered capitalism in the United States led to rapid
economic expansion. This was characterized by widening class disparities
and profound economic insecurity among the poor, a recipe that
contributed to the crisis of the Great Depression.

"Amid this
crisis, our modern welfare state was born. Because of massive
grass-roots protest, politicians and business leaders came to believe
that capitalism would function better — in fact, flourish — if Americans
could be assured a basic standard of living. While the welfare state
primarily benefited and bolstered the white middle class with housing
and education assistance, it also uplifted many of the poor (both white
and nonwhite) through Social Security for the elderly, monthly stipends
for single mothers and the disabled, and a minimum wage for workers. The
safety net was later expanded to include food stamps, public housing
and health care.

"Although unequal and stigmatizing, public
assistance successfully kept most people out of extreme poverty. The
welfare state fueled post-World War II economic growth, strengthened
consumer capitalism by putting money in the hands of the middle and
working classes, and upheld the promise (if not always the reality) of
upward mobility through access to education and a modicum of economic
security.

"But since the 1970s, the safety net has been
diminished considerably. Labor regulations protecting workers have been
rolled back, and funding for education and public programs has declined.
The poor have been the hardest hit. With welfare reform in 1996, poor
single parents with children now have a lifetime limit of five years of
assistance and mandatory work requirements. Some states require
fingerprinting or drug testing of applicants, which effectively
criminalizes them without cause. The obstacles to getting on welfare are
formidable, the benefits meager. The number of families on welfare
declined from 4.6 million in 1996 to 1.1 million this year. The decline
of the welfare rolls has not meant a decline in poverty, however.

"Instead, the shredding of the safety net led to a rise in poverty.
Forty million Americans live in poverty, nearly half in deep poverty —
which U.N. investigators defined as people reporting income less than
one-half of the poverty threshold. The United States has the highest
child poverty rates — 25 percent — in the developed world. Then there
are the extremely poor who live on less than $2 per day per person and
don’t have access to basic human services such as sanitation, shelter,
education and health care. These are people who cannot find work, who
have used up their five-year lifetime limit on assistance, who do not
qualify for any other programs or who may live in remote areas. They are
disconnected from both the safety net and the job market.

"In
addition to the reduction of public assistance and social services, the
rise in extreme poverty can also be attributed to growing inequality. To
quote the U.N. report: “The American Dream is rapidly becoming the
American Illusion, as the U.S. … now has the lowest rate of social
mobility of any of the rich countries.” In 1981, the top 1 percent of
adults earned on average 27 times more than the bottom 50 percent of
adults. Today the top 1 percent earn 81 times more than the bottom 50
percent...."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/extreme-poverty-returns-…/…

The rising rate of homelessness in places like
San Diego is one of the signs of growing poverty in the United States.
(Gregory Bull/AP)

CATALONIA -- Espagne. La couronne prend fait et cause pour les autorités de Madrid | L'Humanité

Espagne. La couronne prend fait et cause pour les autorités de Madrid | L'Humanité

CATALONIA

#catalunyareferendum

Espagne. La couronne prend fait et cause pour les autorités de Madrid

<<< https://humanite.fr/espagne-la-couronne-prend-fait-et-cause… >> >>

Barcelona, 24th / December. Demonstration in favor of the release of
the Catalan political prisoners, including the deputy president deposed,
Oriol Junqueras, held in Madrid. Josep Lago / AFP

Spain. The crown takes up the cause for the Madrid authorities

In an address to the Spaniards, King Felipe VI again defended the
central government of Mariano Rajoy, yet discredited in early Catalan
elections, for his management in the crisis with Barcelona.

CATALONIA --- Puigdemont to Rajoy: “What has been the point of so much repression?”

Puigdemont to Rajoy: “What has been the point of so much repression?”

CATALONIA

#catalunyareferendum

In his speech, Puigdemont referred to the Spanish measures in the past
few months: “Was this the Spanish proposal for Catalonia?” https://goo.gl/nbj2a3 ~~

CATALONIA --- A complex result: on the Catalan election - The Hindu

A complex result: on the Catalan election - The Hindu

CATALONIA

#catalunyareferendum

A complex result: on the Catalan election

<<<< https://t.co/gVKLZrbnsu >>>

SPAIN -- Plus de 45 milliards d'€ de corruption annuelle : Rajoy est à la tête du parti politique le plus corrompu d'Europe

Plus de 45 milliards d'€ de corruption annuelle : Rajoy est à la tête du parti politique le plus corrompu d'Europe

Selon des journaux espagnols, le Partido popular de Mariano Rajoy serait le parti les plus corrompu d'Europe .

Plus de 45 milliards d’€ de corruption annuelle : Rajoy est à la tête du parti politique le plus corrompu d’Europe

<<< https://www.lasemaineduroussillon.com/…/plus-de-45-milliar…/ >>>

According to Spanish newspapers, Mariano Rajoy's Partido popular would be the most corrupt party in Europe.

Over € 45 billion in annual corruption: Rajoy heads Europe's most corrupt political party

CATALONIA --- Catalonia’s Elections Take Spain Back to Square One | The Nation

Catalonia’s Elections Take Spain Back to Square One | The Nation

CATALONIA

#catalunyareferendum

Catalonia’s Elections Take Spain Back to Square One via @thenation https://t.co/5YWbY5G4OD >>>

Ousted Catalan president Carles Puigdemont appears on a screen during
the electoral campaign for the Catalan regional election in Barcelona on
December 15, 2017. (AP Photo / Emilio Morenatti)

sábado, 30 de diciembre de 2017

Propaganda Aiming to Prove Iran Supplied Missiles Backfires | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

On December 12, America’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley,
gave a press conference on the grounds of Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling
in Washington, D.C. The subject of this
briefing: the threat posed by Iranian-supplied missiles employed by the
Houthi rebels of Yemen in their ongoing fight against a Saudi
Arabian-led coalition.

Who Are the Leading State Sponsors of Terrorism? | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

The Trump administration refused to certify that the Iranians had been
in compliance with the nuclear agreement negotiated in 2015 and has
since escalated its verbal attacks,
mostly at the United Nations, claiming that the regime in Tehran is the
major source of terrorism in the world and that it is seeking hegemony
over a broad arc of countries running westward from its borders to the
Mediterranean Sea.

Why Is The West Praising Malala, but ignoring Ahed Tamimi?

Ahed Tamimi, a 16-year-old Palestinian girl, was recently arrested in a
night-time raid on her home. The Israeli authorities accuse her of
“assaulting” an Israeli soldier and an officer.

If You Think These Are Just “Contrails” Think Again – Here’s What They Really Are – Collective Evolution

What in the world are they spraying?

Jill Stein in the Crosshairs: the Russia Investigation Shifts to Clinton’s Political Rivals

The Russia-gate investigation has zeroed-in on Green Party candidate
Jill Stein proving that the probe is not an attempt to determine whether
Russia meddled in the 2016 elections, but a crude weapon to bully the
political rivals of Hillary Clinton her dissolute allies in the
bureaucracy.

War Without a Rationale

The myth of the Afghan safe haven just won't die

Vice Reckoning, Diagnosing Trump, Jerusalem Move & Israeli-US Collusion de Media Roots

Abby Martin

I
talk with Robbie about Trump’s dumb af culture wars, VICE’s toxic
sexism & propaganda, Israeli-US government collusion & stunning
bipartisan support for the Jerusalem insanity on Media Roots Radio: http://bit.ly/2Cmfszp

Geopolitical Shift in the Middle East: The War on ISIS Has Increased the Influence of Iran | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

MASUD WADAN: Iran was not in a state to encroach the Middle East before
2003 when the US incursion into Iraq toppled the regime of Saddam
Hussein and dissolved the erstwhile
army. The invasion involuntarily rolled out new expectations for Iran as
Saddam Hussein was a barrier to Iran’s extension of power into the
Middle East. Iran fought an eight-year-long war with Iraq that cost it
more than a million casualties in the 1980s.

Au Burkina Faso, deux conceptions de la révolution, par Rémi Carayol (Le Monde diplomatique, janvier 2018)

Lors du soulèvement burkinabé ayant mené à la chute de Blaise Compaoré
en 2014, un schisme était apparu entre les forces de changement
«historiques», au premier rang
desquelles les syndicats, et les organisations dites «champignons» qui
émergèrent alors. L’effet d’une cassure générationnelle, mais aussi de
divergences stratégiques et idéologiques. Qui demeurent sur fond de
déception.

Sophie Garcia. – « Faut-il laisser les militaires au pouvoir ? », premier débat post-insurrection à l’université de Ouagadougou, 5 novembre 2014

Cinquante ans d’impunité israélienne, par Akram Belkaïd (Le Monde diplomatique, janvier 2018)

Le 4 juillet 1967, l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies adopte une
résolution (2253) qui invalide «les mesures prises par Israël pour
modifier le statut de la ville de
Jérusalem». Elle réitère cette position le 14 juillet avec la résolution
2254. De son côté, le Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies se
prononcera à plusieurs reprises sur ce sujet.

Ahed Tamimi was actually slapped first, but it's hardly mentioned

Before Ahed Tamimi slapped an Israeli soldier on her family’s occupied
property on December 15, the soldier slapped her hand away from him. But
no one is talking about that violent moment; an…

Eva Bartlett - MintPress News

MintPress correspondent Eva Bartlett destroys corporate media and explains what is actually going on in Syria.
Read her reports --> goo.gl/YtoCjr ~~~~

Eva Bartlett

Eva Bartlett is a Canadian activist/freelance journalists
covering the Middle East, especially the Syrian conflict.

viernes, 29 de diciembre de 2017

Anyone Of “Russian Descent” Now Targeted In Senate Investigation

It's the return of the cold war.

Criticizing his predecessors for misguided foreign wars, President Trump
promised a break in that approach, but his National Security Strategy
report indicates a shift more in rhetoric than substance, reports Dennis
J. Bernstein.

We Can Reimagine and Reinvent Our Society in 2018 | By Sarah van Gelder | Common Dreams

"Let’s say goodbye to top-down revolutions and embrace grassroots action."

Selected Articles: US-North Korea Nuclear War: One Million Deaths on the First Day | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

Global Research’s work is critical in the face of mainstream media disinformation. See our selection below.

The Child Who Knows Too Much About Cruelty in this World | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

In all my years as a journalist walking through the killing fields of
Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Pakistan, to name but a few, I
have never experienced a story like the one young Rohingya Mohammed
shared with me.

'I fear being shot': A Palestinian paramedic's account | Palestine News | Al Jazeera

"The Israeli army always fires tear gas and rubber bullets on us. They
once fired tear gas on me in a neighborhood in Silwad. I lost total
control over my body for almost 12 hours. I couldn't control my nerves
or my speech."

**Yehya Mubarak speaks of the frustrations and hard work that come with navigating checkpoints [Shatha Hammad/Al Jazeera]**

'We won't take part in occupation': Dozens of teens refuse to enlist in Israeli army in letter to Netanyahu - Israel News - Haaretz.com

'The army is carrying out the government's racist policy that violates
basic human rights,' 63 Israeli teens write to Netanyahu and Israeli
military chief Gadi Eisenkot.

IDF refuseniks protest in Haifa in 2014
rami shlosh

The US Is Blatantly Telling Lies as It Tries to Turn the World Against Iran

It’s no secret that the Trump administration has a strong distaste for
Iran. It is one of the only issues on which the U.S. president has
remained relatively consistent.

UN: Saudi Arabia Killed 68 Yemeni Civilians in Just 1 Day

"This absurd war … has only resulted in the destruction of the country
and the incommensurate suffering of its people, who are being punished
as part of a futile military campaign by both sides."

Trump, the know-nothing victor, by Serge Halimi (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, December 2016)

Over a year after Trump's election, many pundits and intellectuals
are still trying to understand how the real estate mogul rose to the
White House.

'The right, and not
just in the US, has managed to turn anti-elitism into
anti-intellectualism, to make people resent the smugness of ‘cultural
elites’' explains Serge Halimi.

Illustration from {The World Turned Upside Down} (18th century)

Bridgeman

US Pressure Led to Massacre of Colombian Farmers

" We talk to Abby Martin about her latest investigative piece in Colombia, where 8 campesinos were killed by the police."

Population de thons rouges du Pacifique nord, par Agnès Stienne (Le Monde diplomatique, janvier 2018)

En avril 2014, le Comité scientifique international pour les thonidés et
les espèces apparentées dans l’océan Pacifique nord a publié un
chiffre-choc : il restait en 2012 moins
de 6 % de poissons assez matures — entre 3 et 5 ans — pour se
reproduire, et même, en 2016, seulement 2,6 % selon des données
révisées.

China Shifts Course, Is A Global Financial Crisis Brewing? | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

JACK RASMUS: The past year the US and global ‘real’ economies have
enjoyed a moderate recovery. Much of that has been due to China
stimulating its economy to ensure real
growth in anticipation of the Communist Party’s convention, which has
just ended. China’s president Xi and central bank (Peoples Bank of
China) chair, Zhou, have announced, post-convention, that China’s real
growth will slow and have warned a global ‘Minsky Moment’ (i.e.
financial crisis) may be brewing. China will now try, once again, to
tame its shadow bankers and speculators who have been feeding China’s
debt and bubbles, and prepare for the global financial instability that
is brewing.

The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Who Are the Leading State Sponsors of Terrorism?

As 2017 draws to a close, it is difficult to be optimistic about what
will be coming in the new year. The American President, whose margin of
victory was certainly based on his pledge to avoid unnecessary wars, has
doubled down on Afghanistan, refuses to leave Syria even though ISIS
has been defeated, and is playing serious brinksmanship with a
psychopathic and unpredictable regime in Pyongyang. The White House has
also bought into the prevailing largely fabricated narrative about a
Russia and has decided to arm Ukraine with offensive weapons, which has
already resulted in a sharp response from Moscow and will make détente
of any kind between the two leading powers all but impossible in the
upcoming year.

The End Of Capitalism Is Already Starting–If You Know Where To Look

In the U.S., businesses converting to cooperative workplace models are
the functional equivalent of those runaway serfs. Around 10 cities
across the U.S. have, in recent years, launched initiatives specifically
to support the development of worker co-ops, which have been especially
beneficial in creating job and wage stability in low-income
neighborhoods. Because workers are beholden to themselves and each
other, rather than a CEO and a board of directors, the model parts ways
with the capitalist structure and advances something that more closely
resembles a true democratic system.

jueves, 28 de diciembre de 2017

Qatari Wahhabism vs. Saudi Wahhabism & the Perils of Top-down Change

Qatar had the advantage that it projected to young Saudis and others the
ability to change without completely dumping ultra-conservative
religious precepts that have shaped
culture and belief systems. It projected a vision of a less restrictive
and less choking conservative Wahhabi society that grants individuals
irrespective of gender greater opportunities... Qatar today is a long
way from the mid-1990s when Qatari women, like in Saudi Arabia until
recently, were banned from driving, voting or holding government jobs.
Qatari women occupy prominent positions in multiple sectors of society.
With women accounting for 53 percent of the work force, Qatar outranks
Middle Eastern and North African states by a large margin. Only Kuwait
with 48 and the UAE with 42 percent come close. It’s a picture that long
juxtaposed starkly with that of its Wahhabi big brother. In doing so,
Qatar threw down a gauntlet for the kingdom’s interpretation of
nominally shared religious and cultural beliefs... The UAE-Saudi-led
boycott amounted to Qatar putting itself under Saudi and UAE tutelage.

Glenn Greenwald en Twitter: "Despite this UK judicial ruling that WikiLeaks is a media organization, US media outlets will keep stating that WL is an "arm of Russian int… https://t.co/UNf4OhaaQt"

Glenn Greenwald:

« Despite this UK judicial ruling that Wikileaks is a media organization, US media outlets will keep stating that WL is an "arm of Russian intelligence,"
even though there's no evidence for that. Why? Because CIA says they
are, and for many in the media, that's equivalent to Truth »

⚬ http://bit.ly/2Dp0jwy

The most dangerous man on Earth, by Tom Engelhardt (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, December 2017)

Within his first year in power, Donald Trump has pushed international
and domestic tensions to the brink of conflict. His war on climate
change is, perhaps, the most dangerous of his policies.

'In the wake of the hottest year on record, we all now live on a
new-normal planet, which means a significantly more extreme one' writes
Tom Engelhardt from TomDispatch.

Edward Snowden’s New App Uses Your Smartphone to Physically Guard Your Laptop

Edward Snowden's app “Haven” uses a smartphone’s many sensors —
microphone, motion detector, light detector, and cameras — to turn the
device into a sort of sentry to watch over your laptop.

The Islamic State (ISIS), the Pentagon’s “Caliphate Project” and the “Global War on Terrorism” | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY : The caliphate project as an instrument of
propaganda has been on the drawing board of US intelligence for more
than ten years. In December 2004, under the Bush Administration, the
National Intelligence Council (NIC) predicted that in the year 2020 a
New Caliphate extending from the Western Mediterranean to Central Asia
and South East Asia would emerge, threatening Western democracy and
Western values.

Poverty Is Both a Political and a Moral Choice Made By the Powerful | By Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi | Common Dreams

Poverty Is Both a Political and a Moral Choice Made By the Powerful

The
UN Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty reports that “the American Dream is
rapidly becoming the American Illusion.” Isn’t it time to wake up,
discard both dreams and illusions, and act on the basis of the truth?

by

Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi

A
recent tour of the U.S. by the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extreme
Poverty and Human Rights brought persistent poverty across the country
into focus. (Photo: Dennis/Flickr/cc)

The FBI Routinely Abuses Its Powers but the Trump Investigation Has Been By the Book

“The FBI has become America’s secret police.”

Dakota 38 (2012)

"
In the spring of 2005, Jim Miller, a Native spiritual leader and
Vietnam veteran, found himself in a dream riding on horseback across the
great plains of South Dakota. Just before he awoke, he arrived at a
riverbank in Minnesota and saw 38 of his Dakota ancestors hanged. At the
time, Jim knew nothing of the largest mass execution in United States
history, ordered by Abraham Lincoln on December 26, 1862. "

<<< http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/dakota-38-2012/ >>>

Climate Change Is Happening Faster Than Expected, and It’s More Extreme | InsideClimate News

In the past year, the scientific consensus has shifted toward a grimmer
picture of the risks posed by climate change. This is the latest data of
what the science is telling us.

Scientists warned in 2017 that not enough has been done to
protect millions of people from an expected increase in dangerous heat
waves. Credit: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

610 Palestinians Arrested Since US Jerusalem Declaration | News | teleSUR English

At least 6,831 Palestinians were already being held in Israeli custody,
including 331 children. The latest brings the total to 7,441.

A young Palestinian boy is arrested by Israeli forces near Nablus. | Photo: EFE

Elites Want More Competition for Everyone Except Themselves - Evonomics

Economist Jonathan Rothwell: "There is no evidence to support the idea
that the top 1 percent consists mostly of people of 'exceptional
talent.' In fact, there is quite a bit of evidence to the contrary."

domingo, 31 de diciembre de 2017

Absolute power, doing what it does best, as Facebook again in the hot seat for censorship

REWIND: The complete acTVism Video Series on the Military Industrial Complex

VIDEO: The Military Industrial Complex with Jeremy Scahill

Watch early in 2018 for peace talks in Sochi, focusing initially on drafting a new constitution that will be rubber-stamped at UN-mandated talks in Geneva

Almost 600,000 people experience homelessness on any given night in the United States.

Noam Chomsky on 'The So-Called Rise of China' (2017) https://t.co/eopwz0UG2y

The fall of ISIS and in Syria and Iraq signals a new era in the groups future. With eyes now on other battlefield theatres, the group is continually expanding in countries central to the U.S. vs Russian war of influence.

by Darius Shahtahmasebi

When liberal Zionist groups say anything about Ahed Tamimi, the 16-year-old Palestinian girl who has been imprisoned without charges for slapping an Israeli soldier occupying her back yard, it̵…

Ahed Tamimi slaps an Israeli soldier, occupying her family's property in Nabi Saleh, on December 15, 2017. Drawing by Katie Miranda.

"But could extreme poverty also be a feature of what is (although perhaps not for long) one of the richest and most powerful nations in the world? Quite possibly. To answer the question, the United Nations launched an investigation of extreme poverty in the United States.

"In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, unfettered capitalism in the United States led to rapid economic expansion. This was characterized by widening class disparities and profound economic insecurity among the poor, a recipe that contributed to the crisis of the Great Depression.

The rising rate of homelessness in places like San Diego is one of the signs of growing poverty in the United States. (Gregory Bull/AP)

CATALONIA

Espagne. La couronne prend fait et cause pour les autorités de Madrid

<<< https://humanite.fr/espagne-la-couronne-prend-fait-et-cause… >> >>

Barcelona, ​​24th / December. Demonstration in favor of the release of the Catalan political prisoners, including the deputy president deposed, Oriol Junqueras, held in Madrid. Josep Lago / AFP

Spain. The crown takes up the cause for the Madrid authorities

In an address to the Spaniards, King Felipe VI again defended the central government of Mariano Rajoy, yet discredited in early Catalan elections, for his management in the crisis with Barcelona.

CATALONIA

In his speech, Puigdemont referred to the Spanish measures in the past few months: “Was this the Spanish proposal for Catalonia?” https://goo.gl/nbj2a3 ~~

CATALONIA

A complex result: on the Catalan election

<<<< https://t.co/gVKLZrbnsu >>>

Selon des journaux espagnols, le Partido popular de Mariano Rajoy serait le parti les plus corrompu d'Europe .

Plus de 45 milliards d’€ de corruption annuelle : Rajoy est à la tête du parti politique le plus corrompu d’Europe

<<< https://www.lasemaineduroussillon.com/…/plus-de-45-milliar…/ >>>

According to Spanish newspapers, Mariano Rajoy's Partido popular would be the most corrupt party in Europe.

Over € 45 billion in annual corruption: Rajoy heads Europe's most corrupt political party

CATALONIA

Catalonia’s Elections Take Spain Back to Square One via @thenation https://t.co/5YWbY5G4OD >>>

Ousted Catalan president Carles Puigdemont appears on a screen during the electoral campaign for the Catalan regional election in Barcelona on December 15, 2017. (AP Photo / Emilio Morenatti)

sábado, 30 de diciembre de 2017

Ahed Tamimi, a 16-year-old Palestinian girl, was recently arrested in a night-time raid on her home. The Israeli authorities accuse her of “assaulting” an Israeli soldier and an officer.

What in the world are they spraying?

The Russia-gate investigation has zeroed-in on Green Party candidate Jill Stein proving that the probe is not an attempt to determine whether Russia meddled in the 2016 elections, but a crude weapon to bully the political rivals of Hillary Clinton her dissolute allies in the bureaucracy.

The myth of the Afghan safe haven just won't die

I talk with Robbie about Trump’s dumb af culture wars, VICE’s toxic sexism & propaganda, Israeli-US government collusion & stunning bipartisan support for the Jerusalem insanity on Media Roots Radio: http://bit.ly/2Cmfszp

Watch early in 2018 for peace talks in Sochi, focusing initially on
drafting a new constitution that will be rubber-stamped at UN-mandated
talks in Geneva

Noam Chomsky on 'The So-Called Rise of China' (2017)
https://t.co/eopwz0UG2y

The fall of ISIS and in Syria and Iraq signals a new era in the
groups future. With eyes now on other battlefield theatres, the group
is continually expanding in countries central to the U.S. vs Russian war
of influence.

by
Darius Shahtahmasebi

When liberal Zionist groups say anything about Ahed Tamimi, the
16-year-old Palestinian girl who has been imprisoned without charges for
slapping an Israeli soldier occupying her back yard, it̵…

Ahed Tamimi slaps an Israeli soldier, occupying her family's property in
Nabi Saleh, on December 15, 2017. Drawing by Katie Miranda.

"But could extreme poverty
also be a feature of what is (although perhaps not for long) one of the
richest and most powerful nations in the world? Quite possibly. To
answer the question, the United Nations launched an investigation of
extreme poverty in the United States.

"In the late 19th and early
20th centuries, unfettered capitalism in the United States led to rapid
economic expansion. This was characterized by widening class disparities
and profound economic insecurity among the poor, a recipe that
contributed to the crisis of the Great Depression.

The rising rate of homelessness in places like
San Diego is one of the signs of growing poverty in the United States.
(Gregory Bull/AP)

Barcelona, 24th / December. Demonstration in favor of the release of
the Catalan political prisoners, including the deputy president deposed,
Oriol Junqueras, held in Madrid. Josep Lago / AFP

In an address to the Spaniards, King Felipe VI again defended the
central government of Mariano Rajoy, yet discredited in early Catalan
elections, for his management in the crisis with Barcelona.

In his speech, Puigdemont referred to the Spanish measures in the past
few months: “Was this the Spanish proposal for Catalonia?” https://goo.gl/nbj2a3 ~~

Ousted Catalan president Carles Puigdemont appears on a screen during
the electoral campaign for the Catalan regional election in Barcelona on
December 15, 2017. (AP Photo / Emilio Morenatti)

Ahed Tamimi, a 16-year-old Palestinian girl, was recently arrested in a
night-time raid on her home. The Israeli authorities accuse her of
“assaulting” an Israeli soldier and an officer.

The Russia-gate investigation has zeroed-in on Green Party candidate
Jill Stein proving that the probe is not an attempt to determine whether
Russia meddled in the 2016 elections, but a crude weapon to bully the
political rivals of Hillary Clinton her dissolute allies in the
bureaucracy.

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