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Canada engaged in widespread surveillance of its indigenous communities

Researchers and journalists have begun to reveal the extent to which Indigenous activists and organisations in Canada are subject to surveillance by police, military, national security intelligence agencies and other government bodies. While security agencies have long looked beyond ‘traditional’ national security threats and set their sights on activists – even in the absence of evidence linking these individuals or organisations to any violent criminal activity – this reality is increasingly the subject of media and public scrutiny. As Jeffrey Monaghan and Kevin Walby have written, the language of “aboriginal and multi-issue extremists” in security discourse blurs the line between threats to national security, matters of ordinary law enforcement, and lawful, democratic advocacy. In this piece, we summarise some of what is known about the surveillance practices employed to keep tabs on Indigenous leaders and activists, and describe their impact on Charter-protecte

Η Ελλάδα θα μπορούσε να απελευθερωθεί από τη δικτατορία του ευρώ με την έκδοση δικού της κρυπτονομίσματος

του system failure Οι εξελίξεις στο πεδίο του παγκόσμιου νομισματικού πολέμου είναι ραγδαίες. Τον Οκτώμβριο, η Ρωσία μέσω του Βλαντιμίρ Πούτιν, ανακοίνωσε ότι εξετάζει την έκδοση δικού της κρυπτονομίσματος, δηλαδή κάτι αντίστοιχο με το Bitcoin. Ο Πούτιν δήλωσε ότι η ενέργεια αυτή έρχεται ως φυσική απόρροια της προσπάθειας της Ρωσίας να εναρμονιστεί με τα νέα δεδομένα στον τομέα των νομισματικών και εμπορικών συναλλαγών. Πίσω όμως από αυτή την κίνηση ενδεχομένως κρύβονται και άλλοι, βαθύτεροι λόγοι, αφού από μόνη της αποτελεί μια μεγάλη καινοτομία, καθώς τα κρυπτονομίσματα είναι ένα κατασκεύασμα των αναρχοκαπιταλιστών που θέλουν να ξεφύγουν από κάθε είδους κρατικό έλεγχο και εποπτεία. Μια τέτοια κίνηση θα βοηθήσει ενδεχομένως τη Ρωσία να απεξαρτηθεί γρηγορότερα από το Δυτικό οικονομικό μπλοκ και να ελαχιστοποιήσει τις συνέπειες του διαρκούς εμπάργκο που επιβάλει η Δύση.    Πέρα από τη Ρωσία, η ομάδα των BRICS στο σύνολό της δείχνει να προσανατολίζεται

The madness of a potential war with North Korea briefly explained

globinfo freexchange The White House psychopaths continue to provoke North Korea, escalating the dangerous games in the Asia-Pacific. One might ask, why now? The answer is simple: the 'anti-establishment' Donnie who was condemning the US interventionism before the latest elections, is just continuing the Obama agenda for the region. As already pointed many times by the blog, the ultimate target behind North Korea dangerous provocation is one: full encirclement of China by land and sea. Of course, Donnie uses the North Korean 'monster' also for distraction purposes as already described : Trump appears to be desperate to present something positive after his rapid and unconditional retreat from his pre-election positions towards almost everything that shapes the US neocon/neoliberal establishment agenda. Yet, a potential accident due to these dangerous games could lead to a disastrous war with North Korea. Lawrence Wilkerson briefly explaine

CryptoCurrency epidemic: more countries consider alternatives against dollar domination tyranny

globinfo freexchange We estimated recently that entire countries may choose to jump into a decentralized financial system flooded by CryptoCurrencies, in order to escape from the monopoly of the Western hard currencies.   Less than two months later, it was the turn of Venezuela to announce that is considering to issue its own CryptoCurrency. As MintPressNews reports: Months after Russia became the first country to announce the creation of a state-backed Cryptorouble, Venezuela has followed suit, announcing the creation of El Petro, a state-sanctioned cryptocurrency to be backed by Venezuela’s extensive reserves of crude oil. Venezuela has already broken free of Dollar dependence months ago when Caracas announced it would be trading its oil using China’s Petroyuan. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro also stated that he would like to begin trade with Russia in the Rouble. With Venezuela heavily sanctioned by the United States, El Petro looks to b

Moscow accuses US intelligence of recruiting Russian journalists

Russia has accused US intelligence of trying to recruit Russian journalists working in the country, after Washington and Moscow, in retaliation, designated each other's media outlets as "foreign agents" and condemned the move as “aggression.” " Recently Russian journalists, including those in the United States, have come under great pressure from the special services, notably through attempts at recruitment, " Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Wednesday. " This is an aggression. An aggression in terms of intelligence not only towards Russia, but also an encroachment on freedom of expression throughout the world, " Zakharova added. This came the same day Russian lawmakers voted to ban the US media designated as "foreign agents" from accessing the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, in retaliation for a US congress decision to withdraw the credentials of RT, Russian international televisio