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By Nicola Nasser*
Long gone the days when the U.S.-led so-called “Friends of Syria” could plausibly claim that two thirds of Syria was controlled by rebel forces, that Syrian capital Damascus was under siege and its fall was just a matter of time and that the days of President Bashar al-Assad were numbered and accordingly he “should step down.”
The war on Syria has taken a U-turn during the past year. Assad now firmly holds the military initiative. The long awaited foreign military (…)

Obama is the anti George Washington ......George Washington promised to never tell a LIE .... Obama has never told the truth .....Yet the LIBERAL LEFT in the US stand by their man ...... It was candidate Obama ,after all, who promised he would require GMO labelling on all food products .sold to the public .....DID NOT DO THAT .....Candidate Obama promised to end the Wars ...REALITY : ....President Obama started wars in Yemen , Syria , Afghanistan and Libya , and is (…)

A New Financial System independent from Wall Street and City of London begins to take shape concretely in Russia?
Russia “forced” by the sanctions to create a currency system which is independent from the US dollar.
Russia announces that it will sell (and buy) products and commodities – including oil – in rubles rather than in dollars. The move is towards the development of bilateral.
Putin has been preparing this move — the creation of a payment system in rubles completely independent (…)

3.7 million people in this nation of 11 million are at severe risk of starvation. Conditions in South Sudan now
parallel those of Ethiopia in the 1980s when hundreds of thousands died from famine. Toby Lanzer, the UN
official coordinating humanitarian aid in South Sudan says "we’re in a race against time".
Aside from the urgent immediate need the civil war currently raging in South Sudan, which was the initial
cause of the problems, the planting season is at risk and a (…)

The world is facing a worsening climate emergency but remains committed to an ever-expanding carbon economy and is unable to take requisite effective climate change action. Energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and the atmospheric CO2 continue to inexorably increase and it is becoming clear that we are rapidly running out of time to deal with the climate emergency [1-5]. This inaction derives not just from anti-science climate change denialism fostered by climate criminal fossil (…)

“When the last tree is cut down, the last poisoned river, the last fish captured, then you will discover that the money is not eaten. “
Indian wisdom
The valley of Tollense, and river At the origin of the art of the war Birth of the armours Armed groups in gilding Already, 3200 years ago In becoming, were the armaments For the rule, in first massacre Before others, even bitterer The war is an invasive species The training in is drunk Country to country That is never finished It is a (…)

Being Europe’s premier gateway for drugs, Spain has no shortage of shady characters. The biggest one has been in the game for so long, he knows how to remain in the background – always around, but never in the limelight.
His name is Rafael Louzán, president of the north-western region of Pontevedra, part of Galicia. With its stony Atlantic shoreline, this traditionally poor area relies on the fishing trade – and whatever else its inhabitants can drag in from the sea. This includes drug (…)

It’s official! Thanks to five reprobates—Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Kennedy—who comprise a majority on the United States Supreme Court, America is now the most corrupt democracy money can buy.
What these so-called “justices” did in their 2010 Citizens United decision, and recently in McCutcheon v. FEC, is confirm what many in the legal profession eventually come to realize: The law is nothing but a farcical facade. Many theorists argue that “law” emanates from two sources.
The (…)

On March 25, William Bugatti, a 43 year old human rights worker for Karapatan, one of the Philippines main
human rights organizations, Bugatti was shot to death. He was the 12th activist killed so far this year. On March 15
Romeo Capalla, 65, chairperson of the Panay Fair Trade Center, was shot to death. On March 2 Freddie Ligiwi,
his father and his brother Edie disappeared, they were found March 8 in a shallow grave. Freddie had been a
member of Anakbayan, a left wing (…)

Mr President Obama The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500
USA
Mr President,
Fernando Gonzalez went back to Havana February 28th. After the touching homecomings with his family, with President Raul Castro and with different personalities in his country, his first words were for Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino and Antonio Guerrero, his three kindred, still (…)