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As demonetisation enters its second week, traders in Patna’s Maroofganj mandi are seeing something unprecedented.
In the last seven days, the supply of new stocks in this wholesale market, which supplies cooking oil, spices, rice, wheat and pulses to shopkeepers …
Why did Trump win?
The election post-mortems are coming in fast and furiously, and the range in accuracy is, well…..interesting. Some analyses miss the mark completely (“White America is racist”), others hit a significant portion of it (“Globalization has left …
Employees at Public Hospitals warn: “Greece’s Public Health Services are on the brink of collapse” Six years of economic crisis, loan agreements, austerity cuts and freezing of new hiring threaten the primary care health care system. A report published by …
US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says that the legislative body is set to renew the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) before the year ends.
McConnell made the remarks on Wednesday, a day after the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted almost …
The largest bank in Norway, DNB, has announced that it has sold its assets in the Dakota Access pipeline. The news follows the delivery of 120,000 signatures from Greenpeace Norway and others to DNB urging the bank and other
…In the week and a half since Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, leading Democrats have moved with extraordinary speed to embrace the president-elect. The same individuals who before November 8 were denouncing Trump as an existential threat to …
As the reality of Donald J. Trump’s victory in the Nov. 8 presidential election sets in, Democrats and progressives have been trading accusations over who – or what – may have led to this historic electoral defeat.
For progressives who …
On November 15, U.S News and World Report released an article by Rachel Dicker providing a list of “fake sites” to “avoid at all costs.” On the list, Activist Post was prominently noted as being “fake” or, more accurately to …
The “liberation” of Mosul has been ongoing for nearly one month. Within this period, the International Coalition’s actions resulted in hundreds of casualties among civilians: some got killed by bombardments, others by inaccurate artillery strikes or because of the ground …
Yesterday the Tax Justice Network was in the UK Parliament to launch a report it had co-produced with the Public and Commercial Services Union. The report, entitled “HMRC, Building an Uncertain Future” is a study of HMRC’s (the UK …
Sit down. This is going to shock you. (Not). We reported yesterday on the telephone call between US president-elect Trump and Russian president Putin, where the current and future presidents discussed the need to set aside differences and look to …
Director-General of the Syria Coroner’s Office Hossein Noufel disclosed that the body organs of thousands of Syrian civilians have been sold in the international black markets over the past six years.
“We have accurate information that over 25,000 surgical operations …
In a stunning move, President Obama has announced he won’t allow any oil and gas leases on land deemed sacred by the Blackfeet Tribe.
After the announcement, Devon Energy, which was hoping to drill on 130,000 acres in Montana — …
RT has asked the US State Department for specific information concerning allegations that Russia is targeting hospitals in Syria. The response was a reiteration of those allegations and a refusal to treat RT in the same way as other media …
The fine was levied on National Oilwell Varco, and its subsidiaries Dreco Energy Services and NOV Elmar, by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, as part of U.S. government efforts to enforce the blockade
I’ve Got the Power: Mapping Connections between Lebanon’s Banking Sector and the Ruling Class
This paper explores the extent to which local commercial banks in Lebanon are linked to the country’s political class, and how this impacts their efficiency and …
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an order on Russia’s refusal to take part in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, according to a document published on the Russian government’s official portal for legal information.
Putin instructed Russia’s Foreign …
The Syrian army, Hezbollah and other pro-government groups have entered the area of Aqrab in western Aleppo. November 16 morning, the government forces launched a preemptive shelling of Jaish al-Fatah militants in Aqrab and then attacked their positions.
Following a …
Moscow called for a special meeting of the Security Council on 28 October 2016, to debate the cooperation between the UNO and certain regional organisations. Ambassador Vladimir Churkin, who was then presiding the Council, invited the representative of the Commonwealth …
No, It’s Not Too Early to Grade the President Elect
I knew that Obama was a sell-out long before he was even sworn in, even though the Americans who voted for Obama thought they were going to get real change.…
Amidst growing protests of young people against the election of Donald Trump, including high school walkouts throughout the country, leading Democrats are doubling down on their pledge to work closely with the president-elect once he assumes office in January.
On …
Introduction
Four decades of rapid economic growth in China has come at a huge price to the environment, from smog-ridden skies to contaminated rivers, toxic soils and “cancer villages”.
These increasingly intolerable costs have emerged as a major source of …
On November 14, 2016, Georgetown’s Foreign Service School, its Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS), and its Middle East-North Africa (MENA) Forum showed the Netflix propaganda film “The White Helmets”. Following the film (which the Helmets had shot), there was …
Seven Russian S-300 air defense systems have been deployed in Syria, Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday. Russia deployed Bastion coastal systems, which are able to destroy both sea and ground targets at a distance of 350 kilometers of …
On 8 July 2016 it was announced in Seoul that the US would, as had long been anticipated, deploy an initial unit of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in South Korea.1 The announcement was made at
…The Syrian government and its key ally, Russia, have launched a fresh offensive against Islamist militias backed by the US and its regional allies both in the besieged eastern sector of Aleppo and in Idlib and Hama governorates in northwestern …
Sputnik’s Arabic bureau has obtained photos of a decree by Daesh (ISIL/ISIS) leaders instructing its fighters not to attack US-led coalition aircraft operating over Mosul and the surrounding area.
The document, discovered in the recently-liberated Iraqi city of Bakhdida, about …
We’ll never know despite lots of guesswork suggesting it. He’s a footnote in the sordid history of US presidential politics – part of the dirty system like all other duopoly power candidates.
In return for supporting Hillary after campaigning against …
Trump’s triumph let humanity dodge a bullet – possible nuclear war on Russia had Hillary defeated him.
He saved America from an emotionally unstable aspirant’s ascension to power – evident from her electoral loss behavior.
She erupted election night after …
Although political and media analysts will be parsing the election results for months to come one winner is blatantly obvious, and it is not Donald Trump. Rather, it is something all tax-paying Americans support, even if they don’t think about …
It’s 2016 going on 1984.
The UK has just passed a massive expansion in surveillance powers, which critics have called “terrifying” and “dangerous”.
The new law, dubbed the “snoopers’ charter”, was introduced by then-home secretary Theresa May in …
The Democratic primary elections were marked by fraud and manipulation, largely with a view to ensuring “the defeat” of Bernie Sanders.
In this regard, we are publishing an excerpt from Bernie Sanders’s speech at a meeting of the National Committee …
President Trump: The Anti-Globalist USA Champion or Just Another Con Man Riding a Trojan Horse?
By Joachim Hagopian, November 16 2016
Many Americans who’ve been supporting President-elect Trump see him as the populist leader who will save America from
…Throughout the campaign for the White House, Donald Trump sensationalised one of the great sores of US political and social life: the issue of immigrants, notably the undocumented, and what his presidency would do to them.
As Trump asserted to …
“Our Glorious Leader has ascended to God Emperor. Make no mistake about it: we did this. If it were not for us, it wouldn’t have been possible. … [T]he White race is back in the game. And if we’re playing, …
Damascus, SANA-President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to RTP TV channel (Portugal). Emphasis added by GR Editor
Following is the full text;
Question 1: Mr. President, let’s start with Aleppo if you don’t mind. There are still thousands of civilians …
As the war in Syria continues to rage on, it is becoming more and more obvious that the battle taking place is about much more than Syria as a country. In this place, the cradle of civilization, there are now …
In the name of demonitization to fight black money, a massive scam is being played out in the country, by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre, said Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) here on Saturday.
In Goa, politicians …
Trump the Anti-Globalist Champion of the People?
Many Americans who’ve been supporting President-elect Trump see him as the populist leader who will save America from ruin. Trump supporters have been unfairly marginalized and pigeonholed by the MSM broad stroke as …
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is heading a controversial campaign against crime, embodied in his “war on drugs” which has led to violence spanning the nation’s troubled urban centers. President Duterte’s comments have ranged from reasonable, to utterly indifferent regarding fears …
If completed, 450,000 barrels of fracked oil will be delivered through the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) daily over 1,168 miles – through North and South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois.
It’ll environmentally damage sacred Standing Rock Sioux Tribe ancestral lands, communities, …
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has unleashed a series of tweets calling for a “state of emergency” to be declared and for the ongoing anti-Trump protests to be violently “quelled” by the military.
On Friday, Clarke wrote on Twitter: “How …
Donald Trump must decide – and decide quickly – whether he wants to be a great U.S. President or a robo-signature machine affixing his name to whatever legislation comes from congressional Republicans and a nodding figurehead acquiescing to more neoconservative …
Post-election comments on Middle East policy last week by President-elect Donald Trump and one his campaign advisers have provoked speculation about whether Trump will upend two main foreign policy lines of the Obama administration in the Middle East.
But the …
Here are 5 stunning facts about the 2016 election …
(1) The Clinton Campaign Promoted Trump as a Republican Candidate
Team Clinton promoted Donald Trump as a Republican candidate … because they thought he’d be easy to beat:
(2) Sanders …
The likely shape of British foreign policy post-Brexit is slowly emerging five months on from the 23 June referendum, and the picture is extremely concerning from any ethical viewpoint. Britain is on course to ignore human rights in its foreign …
A council of Native American leaders has offered partial amnesty to the estimated 220 million illegal white immigrants living in the United States.
The “white” problem has been a topic of much debate in the Native American community for centuries, …
Multiple media reports that former New York City Republican Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is president-elect Donald Trump’s top choice for secretary of state have provided further indication of the extreme right-wing and militarily bellicose character of the incoming US administration.
A …
President-Elect Donald Trump and “The Deep State”: Vote Rigging by Both Sides… Key Appointments
By Peter Koenig, November 15 2016
The elections may have been rigged, probably by both sides, as the elusive elite, or what’s also called the
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The elections may have been rigged, probably by both sides, as the elusive elite, or what’s also called the ’Deep State’, may be divided. It looks like the better ‘rigger’ emerged as the winner. The final popular vote count indicates …
This conference is being held at a critical juncture in the world movement against capitalism and imperialism. The only solution for the suffering and exploited masses of working and oppressed people is socialism. Our organizational and ideological efforts during this …
In an age where many pundits and pollsters ought to be put out to an ignoble pasture, predictions and astrology gazing on the US election continues. While he did have a better sense of this election than most, actually predicting …
The Euro is murdering the nations and economies of the EU quite literally. Since the fixed currency regime came into effect, replacing national currencies in transactions in 2002, the fixed exchange rate regime has devastated industry in the periphery states …
“To all those of us who are locked up here nothing is more important than to be remembered” Leonard Peltier, Leavenworth Prison, September, 1998
While Barack Obama speaks without blushing about the virtues of the Northamerican “democracy,” and lectures us …
The Ontario Government’s Adviser on Basic Income (BI), Hugh Segal, has released his much heralded discussion paper, “Finding a Better Way,” that sets out his proposals for a lengthy BI pilot project. If the experiment he advocates is …
New technology has allowed geographers to create stunning maps of U.S. river basins. There are 18 major river basins in the continental U.S., with the largest belonging to rivers that feed the Mississippi River.
The color-coded maps make it …
The Syrian Air Force destroyed up to 60 air strikes in northern Hama since Monday, destroying a number of armored vehicles, cars and fighting positions belonging to Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra) and its allies. The main air strikes …
In 2016, the fundamentally undemocratic U.S. two-party system presented the public with the two most hated candidates in history. The choice was so dismal that over forty three percent of the voters could not bring themselves to go to the …
Citing historical injustices, environmental uncertainties and other factors, the U.S. Department of the Army is holding off on easements under the Missouri River for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and halting construction pending further review.
“The Army has determined that …
An Israeli café chain has prevented its Arab workers and visitors from speaking their mother language inside one of its branches.
The ban was issued by a shift manager at Café Café, claiming that speaking Arabic is “threatening” to the …
If you might have the impression that Barack Obama was the first US president that established close ties with various terrorist organizations across the world, you would be bitterly disappointed when you learn the truth. Even though Washington has always …
Though It is difficult to predict the trajectory of US action on the UN Security Council after President Trump Is inaugurated, the legacy of President Obama’s administration is hardly an example of the peace for which Obama was awarded the …
Donald Trump was an outsider who boldly stormed the citadel of Washington DC and won. He has promised real change, but his infrastructure plan appears to be just more of the same – privatizing public assets and delivering unearned profits …
The so-called “alternative right” is at least posing as holding its breath over the prospects of Bush-era Neo-Conservative John Bolton being appointed as US Secretary of State. However, with the appointment of Breitbart’s Steven Bannon as Chief Strategist and Senior
The rejection by the US people of the domestic and foreign policy advocated by Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency of the USA has momentarily disoriented the US NATO preparations for provoking a …
On Sunday, Trump announced the appointment of Steve Bannon to the position of “chief strategist and senior counselor to the president.” This corresponds to the position previously held by John Podesta in the Obama administration.
The appointment of a fascist …
On Sunday night, November 13th, the foreign ministers of all the EU nations except Britain and France, met together at an emergency dinner in Brussels, to come up with some way to deal with America’s next President, Donald Trump, whom …
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US President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have held their first telephone call, in which the two leaders discussed Syria and agreed to improve and develop bilateral ties, the Kremlin said in a statement.
In their telephone conversation, …
By Dady Chery, November 14 2016
For Haitian-Americans, the US presidential race was a fight not only to wrest our native land
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“A howling wilderness” was what General Jacob Smith ordered his troops to make of Samar, Philippines. He was taking revenge for the ambush of fifty-four soldiers by Filipino revolutionaries in September 1901.
After the invaders killed most of the …
“malè ou swete bèlmè, se manman ou li frape” – the evil you wish upon your mother-in-law strikes your mother, Haitian wisdom *
The other day, I saw a video excerpt of an October 2012 speech in which
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Government testing for residues of glyphosate has been put on hold, slowing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) first-ever endeavor to get a handle on just how much of the controversial chemical is making its way into U.S. foods.…
On Sunday, the Turksish Armed Forces and pro-Ankara militants reached the outskirts of al-Bab, controlled by ISIS after capturing the areas of Swesian, Hazwan, Qadiran, Al-Dana and ‘Awla.
The Ankara-led forces are now deployed in about 2 km from al-Bab
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In his book “Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man,” Marshall McLuhan (1911 – 1980) said “(t)he medium is the message” because it shapes and controls “the scale and form of human association and action.”
Media affect societies, influencing …
Though the recent protests in the US would have you think that the biggest crisis facing the United States is Donald Trump’s surprise win, Native Americans have gathered in historic numbers to defend native territory from the Dakota Access Pipeline. …
In September last year, car manufacturer Volkswagen was caught cheating on emission tests in the US – the ‘Dieselgate’ scandal was unleashed and quickly went on to also hit Europe. Like in the US, VW diesel cars manufactured in the
Across America, protests have broken out. They are small, poorly organized, and poorly led. They lack any realistic goal, so clearly, lack any actual plan to achieve any sort of goal. And unfortunately, they have become violent, embodying the very …
Trump
Trump made rejection of globalization a centerpiece of his campaign. In his July 21st acceptance speech as the Republican nominee, he said:
Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo.
The Boston Globe bannered this headline on Thursday: “…
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