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Greece's one more desperate attempt to fight the monstrous neoliberal Europe

Tsipras will be defeated one more time, unless he threaten seriously with Grexit globinfo freexchange The Greek government is about to make one more attempt to show some resistance against the latest demands of the Troika (IMF, ECB, European Commission). After seven years of orchestrated economic destruction and one open financial coup by the ECB, Greece is experiencing another wave of huge pressure by its creditors to implement the last details of the brutal neoliberal experiment. The last demands concern the complete dissolution of labor rights and privatizing big parts of the Public Power Corporation in the energy sector. The Greek PM, Alexis Tsipras, is about to make another attempt to resist, by bringing on table the forgotten social values of Europe, especially concerning the labor rights. As Reuters reports: EU officials said on Thursday they were hopeful Greece would drop its eleventh-hour objections to a declaration marking the bloc

Γκεζίνε Σβαν: Ο Σόιμπλε ήθελε και θέλει να ρίξει τον ΣΥΡΙΖΑ

Συνέντευξη με αναφορές στην Ελλάδα παραχώρησε στην Τageszeitung η Γκεζίνε Σβαν, ιστορικό στέλεχος του SPD, καθηγήτρια Πολιτικής Θεωρίας στο Ελεύθερο Πανεπιστήμιο του Βερολίνου και σημαίνουσα προσωπικότητα της γερμανικής αριστερής διανόησης. « Πιστεύω ότι ο ελληνικός λαός δεν θα το βάλει κάτω. Η πολιτική της γερμανικής κυβέρνησης ζημίωσε έντονα την Ελλάδα », λέει χαρακτηριστικά ρίχνοντας στη συνέχεια τα βέλη της προς τον υπ. Οικονομικών Βόλφγκανγκ Σόιμπλε. « Ο Σόιμπλε δεν έχει μια λογική, οικονομική προοπτική για τη χώρα. Αυτό που τον ενδιαφέρει είναι να ανατρέψει τον ΣΥΡΙΖΑ. Αυτό ήθελε πάντα και συνεχίζει να το θέλει. Οι πράξεις του είναι βαθιά ιδεολογικές. Για το λόγο αυτό το φθινόπωρο πρέπει να πετύχουμε μια κυβερνητική αλλαγή στη Γερμανία ». Αναφορικά με το αν βλέπει προσεχώς επανάληψη του καλοκαιριού του 2015, η Γκεζίνε Σβαν λέει σχετικά: « Θεωρητικά, ναι. Αλλά οι φόβοι για τη διάσπαση της ίδιας της Ευρώπης, ιδίως μετά την απόφαση της Μ. Βρετανίας για το

Venezuelan military finds US army uniforms in paramilitary border camp

Tachira — where the paramilitary camp was discovered — was also the region where the government found a large cache of Venezuelan currency in December. Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Armed Forces, FANB, dismantled a right-wing paramilitary camp near the Colombian border Tuesday, discovering U.S. army uniforms, among others. The FANB also discovered stolen Venezuelan military uniforms as well as combat attire belonging to the Colombian military forces. “ We are advancing an investigation, ” Tachira Governor Jose Gregorio Vielma Mora said at a press conference, according to HispanTV. “ We found accounting books with a list of victims of extortion on the site. ” Right-wing Colombian paramilitaries are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Colombians since the 1950s. Usually targeted are campesinos, Indigenous people, Afro-Colombians, human rights activists and those sympathetic to Colombia’s leftist guerrilla movements and Venezuela’s Bol

US airstrike kills 33 civilians sheltering at Syrian school

US confirms strikes in 'vicinity,' says no evidence they hit school US forces were conducting an airdrop of Kurdish fighters around the Syrian town of al-Mansour, near the ISIS capital city of Raqqa, and carrying out heavy airstrikes to cover the drop. Among the airstrikes, one hit a school in the town which was being used to house civilians from the surrounding area displaced by the fighting. At least 33 civilians were killed. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 33 dead had been recovered from the rubble so far, and that only two survivors had been recovered yet. Raqqa is being slaughtered silently, another NGO, reported the school sheltered around 50 displaced families, which might suggest the toll will continue to rise. The Pentagon is, as always, evasive about the civilian casualties, confirming that they carried out multiple airstrikes in the immediate vicinity of the incident, but saying that there is “no evidence” that they hit a sch

NATO’s war of resources is causing a humanitarian crisis in West Africa

As millions suffer from hunger, disease, illiteracy and grinding poverty in the Lake Chad region of West Africa, a sinister game of resource extraction and exploitation is playing out, with geopolitics at the heart of it all. by Eric Draitser Part 2 - The shadowy networks behind Boko Haram Some of the statistics on the humanitarian situation around Lake Chad are truly appalling. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, there are at least 2.1 million internally displaced people in the region, as well as 7.1 million suffering from hunger. One in every two families need life-saving assistance, according to aid workers. Countless thousands have been killed, injured or otherwise terrorized by Boko Haram and other terror groups. The situation is dire. So when the UN announced that the conference had raised 672 million dollars to help the people of the region, the news was obviously welcome. With such funds come very serious quest