The Coming War on China

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By John Pilger

When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open. At a quarter past eight on the morning of 6 August, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite. I stared at the shadow for an hour or more, unforgettably. When I returned many years later, it was gone: taken away, “disappeared”, a political embarrassment.

I have spent two years making a documentary film, The Coming War on China, in which the evidence and witnesses warn that nuclear war is no longer a shadow, but a contingency.  The greatest build-up of American-led military forces since the Second World War is well under way. They are in the northern hemisphere, on the western borders of Russia, and in Asia and the Pacific, confronting China.

Destroying, looting and subjugating Greece via Debt

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Interview with Eric Toussaint, spokesperson and co-founder of the international network of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM). Interview by Benjamin Lemoine. |1|

This interview presents the genealogy of the anti-debt struggle, the campaigns for debt cancellation, the empirical foundation, the political battles and the concepts of the “illegitimate,” “illegal” or “odious” nature of public debt. In other words, how it is necessary for the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) – formerly known as the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt – to ally with opposition forces and social movements, where the concepts and the people involved can challenge and overpower debt and its “system” once the government hears their voice. Yet, for CADTM the outright priority is to fortify the activities described below rather than lobbying.

CADTM – Cancel Greek Debt civil society letter to EWG and Eurogroup

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In autumn last year, some of our organisations handed over a petition supported by 53 organisations in 15 European countries and signed by over 100,000 individuals calling for the cancellation of Greek debt.

IMF explaining its own contribution in destroying South Europe1

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Written by Daniel Munevar

The Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the IMF recently published its report on the response of the organization to the European crisis.

Michael Moore: Morning-After To-Do List

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By Michael Moore / AlterNet  / November 9, 2016. Roll up your sleeves, people—there are fascists to defeat.

A more dangerous world is probably coming after the US election! (By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos)

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The level of irrationality, confusion and negative energy is the most astonishing signal emanating out of the US presidential election.  It is a strong indication that, whatever the result, we should be prepared for an escalation in the already serious tensions dominating our world.

Is a new European financial crash just around the corner?

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By DICK NICHOLS

The tribulations of major European banks, starting with “venerable institutions” like the Monte dei Paschi di Siena (the world’s oldest bank) and Deutsche Bank (Germany’s largest), have raised the spectre of a repeat of the crash of 2008 — a “Lehman Brothers times five” in the words of one market analyst.

History Wars – Poland, Ukraine and Lithuania revise the meaning of WWII

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Between 1919-1921, the newly independent Polish Republic and Communist Russia waged a war across Polish, Belarusian and Ukrainian territory; the war started after Warsaw saw its chance to regain its former imperial glory; Moscow, meanwhile hoped to export its communist revolution to Germany. The war ended in 1921 after the Battle of Warsaw, when the Bolshevik government sued for peace.

Neo-liberal colonialism for the Eurozone

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Growth and the euro after Brexit: neo-liberal colonialism for the eurozone

by Alexander Ulrich & Steffen Stierle

In the summer of 2015, five EU presidents – the Presidents of the EU Commission, the European Council, the Eurogroup, the European Central Bank and the EU Parliament – presented a report entitled Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union.

Stop CETA, stop TTIP – Statement by legal experts

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Legal statement on investment protection in TTIP and CETA

Investment protection and investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms are perhaps the most contentious aspects of TTIP and CETA.

Turkey: Is another coup in the cards?

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The same forces which “predicted” and encouraged the July coup in Turkey are again in action. Michael Rubin, a neoconservative activist, connected in the past with Turkish Kemalists, has posted an article in the website of the ultra-hawkish American Enterprise Institute titles “Is a new coup in the cards in Turkey”. This article was reproduced by Newsweek.

Soros, Clinton and Albania

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An email leaked by WikiLeaks reveals that when Hillary Clinton was US secretary of state in 2011, billionaire George Soros instructed her on how to handle unrest in Albania, stressing it “needs urgent attention at senior levels of the US government.”

“Dear Hillary,” begins the email dated January 24, 2011 from the founder of Open Society Foundations, Soros.

The destructive course of Greece

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The position I will be defending in this short intervention is that the subjection of Greece to memoranda and its consequent social and economic destruction is not simply a product of the global economic crisis that was initiated in the United States in 2007-2008, with the explosion of subprime loans and the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and then exported from America to Europe. In fact, hidden behind all this was a set of machinations undertaken, on the occasion of the crisis, by the European Directorate, which is mainly controlled by German interests.

At that moment, that is in the late 2008 and early 2009, Greece was run by the conservative government of Costas Karamanlis, who was reassuring the internal audience that Greece’s economy and its banking system were absolutely safe. And this, not only because of the supposed dynamism of the Greek economy, but also because of the fact that the Greek banking system was not exposed to high-risk lawns.

Yahoo scanned emails for US intelligence

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‘Unconstitutional’: Yahoo secretly scanned all incoming emails for US intelligence

Yahoo built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by US intelligence officials, according former employees of the company.

The custom software program was secretly built last year to comply with a classified US government directive.

Would you trust Monsanto to play God?

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The CRISPR Rush: Who would you trust to play God?

Last week the U.S. corporation Monsanto, which holds a leading position in the global market of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), reached a licensing agreement with the Broad Institute, Cambridge, USA, on the commercial use of the innovative genome-editing technology CRISPR/Cas9 for agriculture applications. 

They destroyed Greece with their Army, now they do it with finance

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Deutsche Bank and the global financial crisis

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Berlin made an alliance with world finance in 2009-10, in order to punish Greece, discipline European periphery and impose upon all Europe a “dictatorship of the markets”. Now it is paying also the price

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Deutsche Bank and the global financial crisis

By Nick Beams