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Federico Pieraccini Strategic Culture Foundation 20 June 2017   The last thirty days have shown another kind of world that is engaging in cooperation, dialogue and diplomatic efforts to resolve important issues. The meeting of the members of the  Belt and Road Initiative  laid the foundations for a physical and electronic connectivity among Eurasian countries, making it the backbone of sustainable and renewable trade development based on mutual cooperation. A few weeks later, the  Shanghai Cooperation Organization  meeting in Astana outlined the necessary conditions for the success of the Chinese project, such as securing large areas of the Eurasian block and improving dialogue and trust among member states. The following  AIIB  (Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank) meeting in ROK will layout the economical necessities to finance and sustain the BRI projects. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the Chinese Belt and Road In...

Ne News 20 June 2017 EDITOR'S NOTE: The following story contains links to webpages that contains relevant PDF files. If you wish to view these documents, a PDF reader is required. Ne News recommends Sumatra for viewing PDF files, which can be downloaded from https://sumatra-pdf.en.softonic.com/. Firstly, Ne News offers its condolences and sympathy to the victims and their families of the latest terrorist attacks to hit London. As highlighted a number of times by Ne News , Muslims are the biggest victims of terrorism, and this fact is evident by the attacks on a mosque in Finsbury Park, which is the end result of rising Islamophobia, not just in the United Kingdom, but throughout the Western World, and this Islamophobia is promoted by the mainstream media. It is worth repeating that according to the mainstream media, all terrorist attacks are equal, but some terrorist attacks are more equal than others. And while the bombing at a Ariana Grande concert in Manchester on 22 M...

Whitney Webb MintPress News 12 June 2017 MINNEAPOLIS – The annual Global Peace Index , recently released for June 2017, has found that while the world is more peaceful now than last year, violence has increased significantly overall in the past decade. Although the situation has improved in many countries, the ten lowest-ranking nations – known as the world’s “least peaceful” countries – have shown little change in recent years. However, nine of those ten countries share one commonality in the violence that they’ve experienced: U.S.-led destabilization efforts and regime change operations. Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan: Targets for regime change and manufactured sectarianism Syria, which ranked last in the June 2017 index, has been in the throes of a U.S.-led regime change effort for the better part of six years – a conflict that has ravaged one of the most prosperous nations in the Middle East and turned it into the latest battleground for a proxy war be...

Peter Koenig Global Research 11 June 2017 On 8 of June, I had the privilege to attend a press conference hosted by the Venezuelan Ambassador in Bern, Switzerland. The purpose of the press conference was to clarify the current highly misrepresented situation in Venezuela, as well as explaining the process of electing a new National Constitutional Assembly (Asamblea Nacional Constituyente – ANC) on July 30, 2017. In his hour-long presentation, the Ambassador introduced the issues at stake by explaining that Venezuela today has the largest known oil reserves in the world and the fourth largest deposits of gas; that the US is importing 60% of its lush energy use (a distant first of the globe’s per capita energy users), mostly from the Middle East, where it is subject to long and costly transport (40-45 days), and to many risk factors, including the Gulf of Hormuz, controlled by Iran, where today about one third of all the world’s petrol must pass through. By con...

Carla Stea Global Research 11 June 2017 “My conscience leaves me no other choice than to break the betrayal of my own silences…I know that the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government.”  The Reverend Martin Luther King , Recipient of the Nobel Peace prize. “The United Nations which was created to prevent the scourge of war has become an instrument of war.”  Former U.S Attorney General Ramsey Clark Introduction Washington, D.C.  White House tape recordings, April 25, 1971 President Nixon : “How many did we kill in Laos?” National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger : “In the Laotian thing, we killed about ten, fifteen thousand” President Nixon : “See the attack in the North Vietnam that we have in mind..power plants, whatever’s left, POL (Petroleum) the docks..and I think we ought to take the dikes out. Will that drown people?” Kissinger : “About two hundred thousand people.” Nixon : “I’d rather use the nuclear bo...

Prof. Michel Chossudovsky Global Research 9 June 2017 This text is prepared in the context of  Prof. Michel Chossudovsky’s presentation the Korea International Peace Forum’s June 10th commemoration conference, marking  the 30th anniversary of the 1987 J une Democratic Uprising ( 6월 민주항쟁), ROK National Assembly, Seoul, June 10, 2017. The 1987 June Democratic Uprising was a nationwide grassroots movement in the Republic of Korea (ROK) directed against the military regime of president Chun Doo-hwan , a ROK army general who came to power in 1979  following a military  coup and the assassination of President General Park Chung-hee.  Chun Doo-hwan (1979-1987) had announced the appointment of a new military dictator: Army General Roh Tae-woo  as the next unelected president of the ROK.  This self-proclaimed decision in defiance of public sentiment was conducive to the June 1987 mass movement in support of constit...