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To pay back a $17.5 billion loan approved by the Troika of creditors (the European Central Bank, the EU and the IMF) in March, Ukrainians literally risk losing it all.
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With the average salaries at 2,000 hryvnias ($94), Ukrainians can no longer cope with ever rising prices and inflation.
Ukraine is on the verge of economic collapse and subsequent social upheaval, French daily L'Humanite reported.
To pay back a $17.5 billion loan approved by the Troika of creditors (the European Central Bank, the EU and the IMF) in March, Ukrainians literally risk losing it all.
To pay back a $17.5 billion loan approved by the Troika of creditors (the European Central Bank, the EU and the IMF) in March, Ukrainians literally risk losing it all.
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The independent investigation by attorney David Hoffman will determine whether the American Psychological Association (APA) was actually involved in the US Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) torture program, APA Public Communications Deputy Executive Director Kim Mills told Sputnik.
The report concluded that the APA secretly cooperated with the administration of former US President George W. Bush and aided CIA's torture programs against suspected and actual terrorists as well as their aides and supporters.
Comment: The APA's 'main priority' is to figure out a way to do damage control; they've been aware of the role their psychologists have played in torture sites for years now. Check out:
- Corruption of Science: US psychology body declines to rebuke member in Guantanamo torture case
- New evidence reveals APA was eager to collaborate with CIA on torture
- Guantanamo and the taint of torture
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"Airstrikes by the coalition early on Friday on the village of Birmahle in Aleppo province killed 52 civilians," the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
Seven of the victims were children. A further 13 were buried under the rubble, he added.
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Natural resources were also essentially the reason for reducing Iran to a Western vassalage. That never had anything to do with Tehran developing a nuclear weapon, which was banned by both the leader of the Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
The 'New Great Game' in Eurasia was always about control of the Eurasian land mass. Minor setbacks to the American elite project do not mean the game will be restricted to a mere "war of attrition". Rather the contrary.
'International leaders expressed concern over the rising tide of racism and state violence in America, especially concerning the treatment of ethnic minorities in the country and the corruption in state security forces around the country when handling cases of police brutality. The latest crisis is taking place in Baltimore, Maryland, a once-bustling city on the country's Eastern Seaboard, where an unarmed man named Freddie Gray died from a severed spine while in police custody.
Black Americans, a minority ethnic group, are killed by state security forces at a rate higher than the white majority population. Young, black American males are 21 times more likely to be shot by police than white American males.
Comment: A rare moment of truth from the Washington Post. Of course, we have to be suspicious of this editorial line from a truly 'white establishment' paper like the Post. In recent days, the Post has carried other very candidly anti-system articles. For example, in this article, when referring to the video of African-America mother Toya Graham beating her would-be protestor son, the Post journalist states:
"Graham's message to America is: I will teach my black son not to resist white supremacy so he can live. [...]Do the owners of the Washington Post have an interest now in exposing the truth about racist America in order to encourage more widespread chaos and, possibly, one of those nice 'color revolutions' in which the US State Deptartment and CIA are so well-schooled?
The kind of violent discipline Graham unleashed on her son did not originate with her, or with my adoptive mother who publicly beat me when I was a child, or with the legions of black parents who equate pain with protection and love. The beatings originated with white supremacy, a history of cultural and physical violence that devalues black life at every turn. From slavery through Jim Crow, from the school-to-prison pipeline, the innocence and protection of black children has always been a dream deferred.
What is so disturbing is that white supremacy is let off the hook. A militarized and racist police force is not the problem. Systemic racism — from the War on Drugs to racial profiling, from hyper segregation to community divestment — is not the issue. The message becomes: Black children's behavior is the true enemy of peace."
Elbaum describes how their efforts have been specifically directed toward destabilizing the incumbent center-left government of President Cristina Fernandez, while securing exorbitant profits for a Zionist Wall Street speculator, Paul Singer of Elliott Management as well as undermining a joint Iranian-Argentine investigation of the 1994 terrorist bombing of the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires.
Elbaum's article was written in response to the death of Alberto Nisman, a Zionist zealot and chief government prosecutor in the terrorist bombing investigation for over 20 years.
The serious issues raised by the political use and gross manipulation of the horrors of the bombing of the Argentine Jewish Community Center shows how Tel Aviv (and its political assets in Argentina and the US) further Israeli power in the Middle East, in particular, by isolating and demonizing Iran. This is important at two critical levels, which this article seeks to highlight.
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Recent revelations that German intelligence allegedly spied on European targets at the behest of the US National Security Agency (NSA) shows that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has accepted Germany's transformation from an EU leader to a US puppet, a German lawmaker told Sputnik.
Comment: Yep, though she didn't have much choice since the EU was set up to be a US vassal in the first place. It's ordinary people who have to pay the price. The NSA's wiretapping, the sabotage of Russian economic partners by the US' sanctions, and being left with the aftermath of Ukraine's neo-Nazi descent are all crippling burdens, and more are coming.
Also see:
- Will US led military and economic fiasco in Ukraine lead EU into financial collapse?
- The Pentagon's long war pits NATO against China, Russia, and Iran
- German lawmaker: No threat justifies doubling NATO Response Force
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General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan is pictured
General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan is pictured
"These wars and these threats stem from a comprehensive American strategy. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Americans felt that a new force was beginning to materialize, namely the union between Sunnis and Shiites," said Ahmad Reza Pourdastan in an interview with Iran's Arabic-language Al-Alam state news network.
"The basis of this force was the blessed Islamic Revolution in Iran. This force is Islam, or the Islamic world. In order to prevent this force from materializing, the Americans did many things," Pourdastan said, according to a translation of his remarks by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
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Citing an anti-Russia policy brief, US lawmakers approved $200 million for providing "lethal weapons of a defensive nature" to the Ukrainian government as part of the $600 billion Pentagon budget proposal for the fiscal year 2016.
The House Armed Services Committee passed its proposal for the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) with a bipartisan vote of 60 to 2, in what Defense News described as a "marathon" session that ended around 4:30am on Thursday.
Section 1532 of the 498-page document calls for the US to provide assistance, "including training, equipment, lethal weapons of a defensive nature, logistics support, supplies and services, and sustainment to the military and national security forces of Ukraine" through the end of September 2016.
Comment: Here we go again with the semantics of defensive lethal weapons. NATO Commander Breedlove supports the idea of offensive weapons:
"I support the consideration of using offensive weapons to change the decision calculus on the ground [in eastern Ukraine] and to facilitate bringing our opponent to the table for a solution, a final solution," Breedlove told the US Senate Armed Services Committee.But then later retracts that statement saying he misspoke and actually meant defensive lethal weapons:
"We're talking about what I said earlier - lethal defensive weapon. I used these words and don't even understand what I said. It's not a big correction in politics, it's just a military pilot after 2 and a half hours testifying in the Senate, " said Breedlove.Is that clear now?
Comment: So the IMF loans will be paid back by genocidal neo-Nazis at the expense of the already looted poor. The psychos in charge of these institutions should see the insides of jail cells. Check out: