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The neoliberal circus in absolute denial continues to pretend that everything is OK

failed evolution Celebrations continued for the neoliberal establishment after the result of the latest parliamentary elections in France. The media focused on their 'darling' Macron, and this new victory for the most promoted puppet of the neoliberal circus became viral in the mainstream media. The clowns gave another bad theatrical performance. It appears that the old-fashioned shows cannot impress anymore, as the French have chosen to abstain from the electoral process in record numbers. The European political elites broke another record of hypocrisy. They declared that they are happy for Le Pen's defeat, while in reality, they are happy because they found the best partner in the second economy of the eurozone, in order to establish the new feudalism across the European continent. The neoliberal circus in absolute denial, nearly ignored the millions who turned their back to another obsolete, bad-directed spectacle. The establishment pr

ISIS terrorists arrested in Iran while planning attacks on religious centers

Iranian security services have detained a group of terrorists linked to Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) who were preparing a series of terrorist attacks in Iran specifically targeting Iranian religious centers, the Iranian Intelligence Ministry said in a statement. It also added that several explosive devices, including suicide vests, three Kalashnikov assault rifles, and one machine gun, were seized during the operation. https://www.rt.com/news/line/ It appears that the time has come for the US empire to start the next proxy war, this time against Iran. Therefore, Saudis probably took the green light from Trump, after his latest visit which resulted in a massive arms deal, in order to begin another dirty war in the sequence of failed states, from Libya to Afghanistan, created mostly by the US imperialism. http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2017/06/is-this-start-of-us-proxy-war-against.html

More than 200,000 suspected cholera cases in Yemen

The U.N. health agency says there are now more than 200,000 suspected cases of cholera in an outbreak in war-torn Yemen, many of them children. UNICEF director Anthony Lake and World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan said in a statement Saturday, " we are now facing the worst cholera outbreak in the world, '' with an average of 5,000 new cases every day. The agencies say that more than 1,300 people have died one quarter of them children and the death toll is expected to rise. The U.N. says collapsing health, water and sanitation systems have cut off 14.5 million people from regular access to clean water and sanitation, increasing the ability of the disease to spread. In addition, an estimated 30,000 local health workers have not been paid for nearly 10 months. https://www.rt.com/news/line/

CIA examined the possibility of assassination of the Iranian PM Mohammad Mosaddegh before the 1953 coup

On June 15th, the State Department released a long-awaited “retrospective” volume of declassified U.S. government documents on the 1953 coup in Iran. The volume includes fascinating details on Iranian, American and British planning and implementation of the covert operation, as well as information about U.S. contacts with key figures such as Ayatollah Abol-Ghasem Kashani, and insights into U.S. concerns about the growing influence of communist Tudeh Party. This Foreign Relations volume focuses on the use of covert operations by the Truman and Eisenhower administrations as an adjunct to their respective policies toward Iran, culminating in the overthrow of the Mosadeq government in August 1953. Moreover, the volume documents the involvement of the U.S. intelligence community in the policy formulation process and places it within the broader Cold War context. [ nsarchive.gwu.edu ] globinfo freexchange The volume contains a significant amount of new information

In Yemen’s secret prisons, UAE tortures and US interrogates

Hundreds of men swept up in the hunt for al-Qaida militants have disappeared into a secret network of prisons in southern Yemen where abuse is routine and torture extreme — including the “grill,” in which the victim is tied to a spit like a roast and spun in a circle of fire, an Associated Press investigation has found. Senior American defense officials acknowledged Wednesday that U.S. forces have been involved in interrogations of detainees in Yemen but denied any participation in or knowledge of human rights abuses. Interrogating detainees who have been abused could violate international law, which prohibits complicity in torture. The AP documented at least 18 clandestine lockups across southern Yemen run by the United Arab Emirates or by Yemeni forces created and trained by the Gulf nation, drawing on accounts from former detainees, families of prisoners, civil rights lawyers and Yemeni military officials. All are either hidden or off limits to Yemen’s gover