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Published on Global Research.ca, by Adeyinka Makinde, Oct 24, 2016.

Recent media focus on the humanitarian crisis in the Syrian city of Aleppo has revealed the government promoted propagandistic methods of the Western mainstream media, which shorn of context and rich in bias uncritically accepts the narrative presented by politicians and attempts to shape public opinion to suit the needs of a war agenda … // Continuer la lecture de « The Syrian Tragedy: Western Foreign Policy and its Useful Idiots »

Published on Jacobin, by Luke Savage, Oct 21, 2016.

Wikileaks’ latest document dump vindicates Bernie Sanders’ critique of Hillary Clinton and the Washington establishment … // Continuer la lecture de « Why Bernie Was Right »

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin no 1318, by Frederic Heine and Thomas Sablowski, Oct 21, 2016.

The unequal development of the countries of the euro area since the outbreak of the crisis is causing increasing friction that threatens to tear the monetary union apart. Contrary to what many critics of the monetary union suggest, responsibility for this development lies not alone with its internal structure, but is rather a general feature of capitalist development. It is illusory to believe that under the dominance of the capitalist mode of production a spatially even development would ever be possible. Rather, the current monetary regime reinforces the cycles of capitalist crisis … // Continuer la lecture de « The Future of the Euro Area »

… a conversation with Noami Klein (the transcript and the podcast, 32.21 min) – Published on The Intercept, by Glenn Greenwald, Oct 19, 2016.

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• … I think WikiLeaks more or less at this point stands alone in believing that these kinds of dumps are ethically — never mind journalistically — just ethically, as a human being, justifiable. Continuer la lecture de « Is disclosure of Podesta's emails a step too far? »