ADDED 05/06/2018
FROM 05/05/2018 | News Click
BY Pavan Kulkarni
After rallying tens of thousands to force the ex-Prime Minister to resign, Nikol Pashinyan is now likely to take power as the interim PM on May 8. The uprising that has been ongoing in Armenia since last month seems to be on the verge of clinching a victory, after the ruling Republican Party of Armenia […]
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ADDED 05/05/2018
FROM 05/05/2018 | Asia Times
BY Sonika Gupta
China implemented its social credit system on a nationwide scale starting May 1. Social Credit, a harmless sounding phrase is the unholy marriage of big data with the proverbial ‘Big Brother’ under which, the state grades citizens as ‘trustworthy’ or not. Ostensibly the system is intended to address the trust deficit in the Chinese business […]
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ADDED 05/04/2018
FROM 04/17/2018 | NACLA.org
BY J. Patrice McSherry
How Sebastián Piñera’s right-wing government is undermining democratic institutions Sebastián Piñera, a conservative billionaire, assumed the presidency of Chile for the second time on March 11 after an election in which abstention was the biggest winner. In only a few weeks he and right-wing allies engineered changes to key reforms enacted by previous socialist president […]
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ADDED 05/04/2018
FROM 03/05/2018 | Punjab Today
BY Kamjaat Singh
AT A TIME when Punjab is in the throes of a massive social upheaval and there is a complete disconnect between its farmers, farm labourers and those dependent on rural economy and others in towns and cities who are more cued into structures of political power, one would have thought that vast swathes of political […]
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ADDED 05/04/2018
FROM 05/01/2018 | BlackPast.org
BY Peter Carroll
Approximately 90 African Americans fought in Spain during the civil war that engulfed that nation between 1936 and 1939. The war became a proxy war for the European great powers as the Soviet Union supported the newly established Second Spanish Republic while Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy supported the anti-Republic conservatives led by General Francisco […]
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ADDED 05/03/2018
FROM 04/26/2018 | The Indypendent
BY Michael Hirsch
A charismatic and militant labor leader, five-time Socialist Party presidential candidate, class-war prisoner jailed by the ostensibly liberal Woodrow Wilson administration for opposing U.S entry into World War 1 and a fiery, moral force in a corrupted era — Eugene Victor Debs was among the greatest orators this nation ever produced, yet no recording of his […]
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ADDED 05/03/2018
FROM 05/03/2018 | Brasil Wire
BY Marcio Pochmann
During the lead up to the 2016 Coup, a series of alarmist articles in the Brazilian and international media warned of Brazil’s spiraling public debt. In January, 2016, for example, the Economist wrote, “public debt is worryingly large for a middle-income country and rising fast. Because of high interest rates, the cost of servicing it is a […]
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ADDED 05/01/2018
FROM 05/01/2018 | Ha'aretz
BY Bradley Burston
“Now, darkness and secrets are everywhere. Now there has to be an Us. Because now, there is a Them.” All eyes were on Israel’s military headquarters in Tel Aviv Monday night, as Benjamin Netanyahu literally unveiled his magician’s cabinets, the glittering CDs and snaggle-toothed binders holding what he said were 55,000 pages and 183 discs […]
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ADDED 04/27/2018
FROM | Kyiv Post
BY Open Democracy
Since autumn 2017, the Russian security services have been arresting anarchists and anti-fascists across the country. They’re suspected of being part of a terrorist organisation called “The Network”. Detainees complain that they have been tortured, and rights advocates believe the case is fabricated. The FSB’s version According to the investigation’s case, the FSB foiled the activities of “The Network” terrorist […]
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ADDED 04/24/2018
FROM 04/24/2018 | InfoMigrants
BY ANSA
There were tensions on the French-Italian border at the weekend, after anti-fascist groups responded on Sunday to a “wall” along the border that had been created by the far-right group, “Generation Identitaire,” on Saturday. Tense moments were experienced with the French gendarme at one point but violent incidents were avoided. Activists from the small far-right […]
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ADDED 04/17/2018
FROM 04/17/2018 | Al Jazeera
BY Patrick Strickland
Far-right groups have surged across Europe. Why hasn’t Golden Dawn been able to grow? Athens, Greece – While far-right, populist and often neo-fascist parties across Europe have successfully broadened their bases since the massive influx of refugee arrivals started in 2015, that has not been the case in Greece. In January 2015, the neo-fascist Golden Dawn became the […]
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ADDED 04/12/2018
FROM 04/12/2018 | Brasilwire
BY Saad Filho
“It is scandalous to have the US government guiding policy and the judicial prosecution of Lula. It is scandalous to have the judicial process turned into a spectacle for TV. It is scandalous to invite the military back into politics.” Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was the most influential trade union leader in Brazil in […]
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