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Shelley Kasli Great Game India 31 July 2017 Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has been highlighting his government’s independence from international money lending organizations and their detrimental impact on the nation, the  Telesur TV reported . “A day like today in 1944 ended Bretton Woods Economic Conference (USA), in which the IMF and WB were established,” Morales tweeted. “These organizations dictated the economic fate of Bolivia and the world. Today we can say that we have total independence of them.” Morales has said Bolivia’s past dependence on the agencies was so great that the International Monetary Fund had an office in government headquarters and even participated in their meetings. Bolivia is now in the process of becoming a member of the Southern Common Market, Mercosur and Morales attended the group’s summit in Argentina last week. The Cochabamba Water War Bolivia’s popular uprising known as the The Cochabamba Water War in ...

Jean Périer New Eastern Outlook 29 July 2017 A year on from the Brexit referendum Britain feels like it is in shambles. It’s been noted that the extensive and outright visible damage has been done to its domestic politics, as the Conservative Party has been in turmoil for a while now. The London Evening Standard says that Gideon Skinner , head of political research at Ipsos MORI confined to one of its reports the following : The turnaround in Mrs May ’s ratings is unprecedented in our previous data on Prime Ministers – from a historic high at the start of the campaign to a historic low just one month after an election, while also seeing her position among her own party supporters weakening and Jeremy Corbyn ’s campaign surge continuing. The same extent of damage, most experts agree, has been inflicted upon Britain’s global standing, which is lower than it has been at any time since the Suez crisis in 1956. The Economist experts argue that for decades Brit...

Stephen Lendman Global Research 29 July 2017 VISIT MY NEW WEB SITE:  stephenlendman.org  ( Home – Stephen Lendman ).  Contact at  lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net . Since Hugo Chavez’ s February 1999 ascension to power, Washington wanted Bolivarian democracy replaced by a US sponsored regime.   Earlier coup attempts failed, another likely planned, months of US-orchestrated violence a convenient pretext to act, along with imposing illegal sanctions on Venezuelan officials. On Wednesday, the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned 13 current and former Venezuelan officials, along with others, wrongfully accusing them of “undermining democracy” – a US specialty at home and abroad. Treasury Secretary Mnuchin represents US imperial lawlessness. Claiming the Trump administration “will not ignore the Maduro regime’s ongoing efforts to undermine democracy, freedom, and the rule of law” turned truth on its head. Saying ...

Saad Abdllah Global Research 29 July 2017 Kiss the Jasmine Take me to kiss the jasmine Let me stand on the threshold of your garden Let me smell what I long for Amongst the grains of sand on your beach. Don’t kill the lovestruck stars Don’t tell the sun and the moon to be silent Let them speak. Oh you, who can pass to  future Take from my hand the key to my house, Take my name, take a jasmine. Because I’m now homeless between my past and your future Between the sea, the tent and the harbour. Why do you use my name but abuse my being? I curse you in the name of god. Why do you injure my soul and my mind? I curse you in the name of god. Why do you think your blood is different from my blood? What disgusts you with my name – ‘refugee’ you who gave me this name? I have never been an enthusiastic supporter of President Assad but life before the war life was not so bad in Syria. We had free education from primary school to doctorate. The teachers...

Shane Dixon Kavanaugh Sott.net 30 December 2016 The simmering tit-for-tat has kept the issue of election meddling burning bright in the national spotlight, fueled even further by the belief among U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia wanted to help Donald Trump capture the presidency. Yet neither country is a stranger when it comes to directly trying to sway the election of other nations. In fact,  the U.S. has a long and stunning history of attempting to influence foreign presidential elections ,  recent research  by political scientist Dov Levin shows.  Levin, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Carnegie-Mellon University,  found that   the U.S. attempted to influence the elections of foreign countries as many as 81 times between 1946 and 2000 . Comment:  That’s  just  till 2000! The US has gone nuts since then. Often covert in their execution, these efforts included everything f...

Roberto Savio Inter Press Service 24 July 2017 ROME, Jul 24 2017 (IPS)  – Politicians are so busy fighting for their jobs, they hardly seem to notice that they risk going out of business. Democracy is on the wane, yet the problem is nowhere in Parliaments. Common to all is a progressive loss of vision, of long term planning and solutions, with politics used just for power. In English, there are two terms: politics, which is term for the machinery, and politics, that is the vision. In Latin languages, there is only one, politics, and that is now becoming the adequate term also for English-speaking countries, from May’s UK to Trump’s US. In a few years, we have seen an astonishing flourishing of authoritarian governments. Turkey’s Erdogan may be the best example. He was elected in 2002, and hailed as proof that you could be a Muslim and also a champion of democracy. At the end of the decade, he started to take a more fundamentalist and authoritarian appr...

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Dr. Paul Craig Roberts 26 July 2017 America has been a discouraging landscape ever since the neoconservatives took over US foreign policy during the Clinton regime and started the two decades of war crimes that define 21st century America and ever since US corporations betrayed the US work force by moving American jobs to Asia. The outlook became darker when the Obama regime resurrected the Russian Threat and elevated the prospect of military conflict between the nuclear powers. As Europe is caught in the middle, in normal circumstances European countries would have insisted that Washington cease the gratuitous provocations of Russia. But normal circumstances have not existed. Since the end of WW2, European countries have been vassals without independent economic and foreign policies. Europe hosts US military bases that threaten Russia. Europe has backed Washington’s wars of aggression against Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, ...

Sputnik Sputnik 26 July 2017 US Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo has admitted the US is working to change the elected government of Venezuela, and collaborating with Colombia and Mexico to do so. While it’s the first public acknowledgement of US meddling in the embattled country, Latin American political analysts likely won’t be surprised. Speaking at a Q&A session  at the Aspen Institute think tank’s annual security forum, Pompeo said he was “very hopeful” of a “transition” in Venezuela. “I was in Mexico City and Bogota a week before last talking about this, trying to help them understand [what] they might do so they can get a better outcome for their part of the world and our part of the world. I’m always careful when we talk about South and Central America and the CIA, but suffice to say, we’re very hopeful there can be a transition in Venezuela and we [a...

Matt Agorist TheFreeThoughtProject.com 12 July 2017 Featured image: Maj. Gen. Yair Golan , the Israeli army’s deputy chief of staff (Source: TheFreeThoughtProject.com) Jerusalem – Last year, a top Israeli general’s comments during the country’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day address sparked controversy when he likened the atmosphere in modern day Israel to 1930’s Nazi Germany. “If there is anything that frightens me in the remembrance of the Holocaust, it is discerning nauseating processes that took place in Europe in general, and in Germany specifically back then, 70, 80 and 90 years ago, and seeing evidence of them here among us in the year 2016,” Maj. Gen. Yair Golan , the Israeli army’s deputy chief of staff said. Now, the outgoing IDF Deputy Chief has doubled down on his remarks and in an interview this week, defended his controversial speech. As the Times of Israel  reports , Golan, speaking in a new video interview produced by the mil...

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Paul Craig Roberts 24 July 2017 A decade ago in 2007 John J. Mearsheimer , the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, and Stephen M. Walt , the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Academic Dean of the Kennedy School from 2002-2006, published  The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. The publisher was the prestigious publishing house, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The authors made a convincing case that Israel operating through its American lobbies, which are not registered as foreign agents, succeeds in using US foreign policy in Israel’s interests. The authors conclude that the use of US foreign policy in Israel’s interests is damaging to both America’s national interests and to Israel’s long-term security. Many we...

Adam Johnson FAIR 19 July 2017 Earlier this week, human rights group Amnesty International issued a  lengthy report  accusing US-backed forces of “repeated violations of international humanitarian law, some of which may amount to war crimes,” in Mosul, Iraq, causing the deaths of at least 3,700 civilians. Neither this report, nor the broader issue of the civilian toll in the US war against ISIS, has come close to penetrating US corporate media. The only major radio or television outlet to report on Amnesty’s claims was  NPR  ( 7/12/17 ). While traditional print outlets, such as the  New York Times  and  Washington Post,  did run  Reuters  ( 7/11/17 ) and  AP  ( 7/12/17 ) articles, respectively, on the report, neither covered it themselves. Neither Amnesty’s charges, nor the broader issue of civilian deaths in Mosul,  garnered any coverage in television news, with no mention on  ABC ,  NBC ,...