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The Archdruid Report: An Affirming Flame
According to an assortment of recent news stories, this Thursday, June 18, is the make-or-break date by which a compromise has to be reached between Greece and the EU if a Greek default, with the ensuing risk of a potential Greek exit from the Eurozone, is to be avoided. If that’s more than just media hype, there’s a tremendous historical irony in the fact. June 18 is after all the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo...
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Constituents to Senators: Reject Fast Track, or Don't Come Home
Senate expected to take up trade legislation on Tuesday, but labor federation warns: 'Fast Track has gotten even worse since the House got its hands on it.'
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Dune, 50 years on: how a science fiction novel changed the world
It has sold millions of copies, is perhaps the greatest novel in the science-fiction canon and Star Wars wouldn’t have existed without it. Frank Herbert’s Dune should endure as a politically relevant fantasy from the Age of Aquarius. By Hari Kunzru.
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Honduras under Occupation - murders, land grabs, and Hillary Clinton’s ‘hard choices’
Honduras has endured six years of violence and land grabs after the 2009 US-backed military coup made the country a playground for Hillary Clinton's billionaire friends, write Eric Draitser & Ramiro S. Fúnez - and a hell for the country’s indigenous and small scale farming communities, whose leaders are routinely murdered with impunity by US-trained forces.
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Europe’s Dangerous Distraction: Pipelines
“Pipelines distract us from reality.” By Nikos Tsafos.
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Why Iran’s Supreme Leader Wants a Deal
When Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif was about to leave Tehran for Vienna last week, the Twitter handler for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei posted a tweet in English to show strong support for the negotiation team: “I recognize our negotiators as trustworthy, committed, brave and faithful,” the tweet said...
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An Unpopular Man
Norman Finkelstein was a rock star of the pro-Palestinian movement. Then he came out against BDS.
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Putin is weak: The Russian strongman is terrified of losing control. He should be.
Putin seems more powerful than ever. But behind the veneer of strength lie deep weaknesses — and their consequences could be catastrophic.
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Needed: Large Greek Devaluation or Large-Scale Transfers to Greece. With Bonus Godwin's Law Violation!
Consider that the IMF had already expected the Greek economy under baseline to shrink by 4%-points, and for fiscal consolidation to shrink the Greek economy by 3%-points, and we have 4/5 of the damage to the Greek economy--relative to a counterfactual forecast under some zero-spending-austerity baseline was due to austerity.
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The EU Might Get What It Wants From Greece. It Still Has a Big Problem There.
The mood in Athens this week was at once embattled and proud, erratic and panicked. A wave of political resignations has swept Greece since Sunday’s referendum, in which Greeks were asked whether they agreed with the latest bailout terms offered by the country’s creditors. “No” won resoundingly in every province of the country. Antonis Samaras, the former prime minister, stepped down as head of the New Democracy Party that night...
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WikiLeaks Cables Show a Saudi Obsession With Iran
Saudi Arabia’s alarm over the nuclear deal comes after a trove of documents revealed its plans to limit the spread of Shiite Islam in Iran.
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Greece and Europe: Is Europe holding up its end of the bargain?
Now that the Greek parliament has agreed to European demands for tough new austerity measures and structural reforms, Ben Bernanke asks whether Europe is holding up its end of the bargain.
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Inside the Iran Talks
How John Kerry and Javad Zarif spent twenty-two months negotiating the most significant nonproliferation agreement in decades. By Robin Wright.
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Rewriting the History of Plan Colombia
A five-star General's specious narrative about the program’s success ignores the crimes and impunity of the Colombian military, and lets the U.S. off the hook for fostering systemic human rights violations. By Steven Cohen.
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How to Disappear a Country
In the Donetsk People’s Republic, Russia is everywhere, from the mailboxes to the license plates. Ukraine is nowhere. By Amie Ferris-Rotman.
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The M.I.T. Gang
Goodbye, Chicago boys. Hello, M.I.T. gang. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, the term “Chicago boys” was originally used to refer to Latin American economists, trained at the University of Chicago, who took radical free-market ideology back to their home countries.
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Turkey's elections explained
From the Caspian Report.
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The Eurasian Big Bang
How China and Russia Are Running Rings Around Washington. By Pepe Escobar.
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America’s latest failure in Syria
A Senate hearing reveals only 60 Syrians have been enlisted in the U.S.’s $500 million training efforts.
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The War Nerd: Don’t be fooled -- Turkey is attacking the Kurds
You might be cheering for the Turkish Air Force, which has reportedly finally decided to strike Islamic State targets in Syria. Don’t believe it. By Gary Brecher.
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