Actuality | Non-fiction

Capitalism is killing us?
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Of Paul Craig Roberts
Capitalism is killing us?
Source: Comedonchisciotte
Some ecological economists, come Herman E. Daly, argue that the external costs related to pollution and the depletion of global resources are not taken into consideration by the gross domestic product, so we cannot know if an increase in GDP is, actually, a gain or a loss.
External costs are enormous and constantly growing. Since the beginning of the world, manufacturing and industrial multinationals, those of the agri-food sector, city ​​sewage systems, and other culprits have made third parties pay the costs of their environmentally harmful activities. There have been numerous reports recently, many of which centered on Monsanto's Roundup, whose main component, glyphosate, it is considered carcinogenic.
An organization aimed at safeguarding public health, l’Environmental Working Group, recently reported that its tests showed the presence of glyphosate in 43 are 45 types of foods for children's breakfast, including muesli, oat flakes and snacks produced by Quake, Kellog e General Mills. LINK.
In Brazil it was discovered that 83% of breast milk contains glyphosate. LINK.
The Institute for the Environment of Monaco ((Munich Environmental Institute) reported that 14 of the best-selling German beer brands contain glyphosate. LINK.
Glyphosate has been found in the urine of Mexican farmers and in Mexican groundwater. LINK.
According to Scientific American, “even the inert compounds in Roundup are capable of killing human cells, especially the embryonic ones, placentals and umbilical cord.” LINK.
A German toxicologist has accused the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment of scientific fraud (Federal Institute for Risk Assessment) and the European Food Safety Authority (European Food Safety Authority – EFSA) for having accepted the thesis of a working group managed by Monsanto on the non-carcinogenicity of glyphosate. LINK. Read More

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The march of madness
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Of Uri Avnery
The march of madness
Source: Comedonchisciotte
You can look at the events in Gaza with your left eye or with your right eye. One can condemn them as inhumane, cruel and wrong, or you can justify them as necessary and indispensable. But there is one adjective that cannot be compromised on. They are stupid.
If the good soul Barbara Tuchman were still alive, might be tempted to add another chapter to her seminal text “The March of Madness”: a chapter titled “Blind in Gaza.”
The last episode of this epic began a few months ago, when independent activists from the Gaza Strip had organized, together with Hamas, a march on the border with Israel. It was called “The Great March of Return,” a purely symbolic gesture for the million-plus Arab residents [in the Strip]who had had to flee or had been driven from their homes, from that territory which later became the state of Israel.
The Israeli authorities pretended to take the matter seriously. The Israeli public had been presented with a horrifying picture of the situation: 1,8 millions of Arabs, men, women and children about to throw themselves against the border fences, break them down in many places and lay fire to the cities and villages of Israel. Terrifying. Read More

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Putin's strategy is finally starting to work?
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Of Paul Craig Roberts
Putin's strategy is finally starting to work?
Source: Comedonchisciotte
I have already had the opportunity to explain that attitude, typically Christian, of Russian President Vladimir Putin to turn the other cheek to Western provocations is a strategy intended to convince Europe that Russia is reasonable while Washington is not, and that Russia is not a threat to the interests and sovereignty of Europe, while Washington is. Appeasing Israel and withdrawing from the Iranian multinational nuclear non-proliferation agreement, American President Donald Trump may have contributed to the success of Putin's strategy.
The three largest European vassal states of Washington, Great Britain, France and Germany opposed Trump's unilateral action. Trump believes that the multinational treaty depends only on Washington. If Washington were to renounce the agreement, this would represent the end of the agreement itself. The will of the other signatories does not matter. Consequentially, Trump wants to reintroduce pre-existing sanctions on trade with Iran and impose additional ones, new sanctions. If Great Britain, France and Germany continued to honor the commercial contracts stipulated with Iran, then Washington would also sanction its own vassal states and ban English companies, French and German to operate in the United States. Washington obviously believes that the profits that Europeans have in the United States exceed those that can be obtained in Iran and thinks that [the Europeans] they will adapt to Washington's decisions, as well as, from vassal states, they have already done so in the past. Read More

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When Zionism collides with reality
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Of Stanley L. Cohen*
When Zionism collides with reality
Source: Comedonchisciotte
“The wrongs we seek to condemn and punish were thus premeditated, so evil and so devastating, that a civilization cannot tolerate them being ignored, because it could not survive their reiteration"
With these authoritative words, Robert H. Jackson, Chief U.S. Attorney, had opened the work of the War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, immediately after the conclusion of the Second World War.
In charge of ascertaining the guilt of prominent members of the army, of politics and the judicial apparatus for violations of international laws... including war crimes, crimes against humanityand against them laws of war…the court had validated the principle of personal responsibility for the genocide against Jews and other ethnic groups, that had been considered, from the German state, a threat to one's own, declared, racial supremacy, religious and political.
Although these crimes had manifested themselves in different forms, their savagery resulted, actually, from a shared collective thought, who considered all those destined to be suppressed by the state not only (beings) inferior, but unworthy of life itself… men, women and children, young and old, reduced to little more than objects of grotesque derision, whose very existence contaminated the national concept of racial supremacy.
There are no more secrets about the terror campaign unleashed from the Third Reich, as he invaded nations and unleashed international violence never seen before. Nor have its methods of total war ever been subject to serious debate, both towards the military, than against civilians. Even if someone has chosen to dispute the number of victims or to rework the exact instruments of persecution, no serious historian doubts the role played by cattle trucks, from the ghettos and crematoriums in a conscious effort to silence the diversity of life, while most of the world looked elsewhere. Read More

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Iran will replace the US dollar with the euro in financial relations
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Of Saeed Jalili
Iran will replace the US dollar with the euro in financial relations.
Source: Comedonchisciotte

Iran will replace the US dollar with the euro in financial relations.

In the midst of the currency crisis, with this change we attempt to circumvent restrictions on the accessibility of the US dollar and prevent market instability.

The Iranian Riyal has lost nearly two-thirds of its US dollar value over the past three years [Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters]

Friday's move (ndt 13 apr.) is considered part of efforts to circumvent restrictions on the accessibility of the dollar currency, as a result of tensions with Washington, as well as preventing general instability on the markets generated by fluctuations of the Iranian Rial against the dollar.

In a cabinet meeting, the government has decided that all ministries, State organizations and companies should refer to the exchange rate with the euro, which the Central Bank of Iran will have the task of communicating frequently, the IRNA news agency reported.
It is unclear when this decision will take effect, but the entrepreneurs have said that they will wait to know the implementation methods before these new conditions can take effect.
“I suppose if they use the euro as their official currency, this will reduce the psychological impact of the rial fluctuations on the dollar”, he said, ad Al Jazeera, Newsha Sheikh Soleimani, which imports raw materials for the processing of bricks and ceramics in Tehran.
“Our company operates mainly in euros, but some invoices are issued based on the rial-dollar exchange rate” but his company recently had to suspend all transactions due to uncertainty over the value of the foreign currency.
“I welcome any move that can bring stability to the foreign exchange market”.
The loss of value
Valiollah Seif, head of the Central Bank, he had already said that the use of the dollar in financial transactions is not "logical"..
Iran's trade revenue is mainly in euros due to sanctions on the US dollar, he stated. Therefore, Seif added, the country's financial reporting should use a more stable and widely used reference currency in trade.
As part of the agreement Iranian nuclear power of the 2015 with world powers, all sanctions related to Iran's controversial nuclear program have been lifted.
Despite this, due above all to persistent tensions with the United States, There are still limitations on Iran's accessibility to US currency.
These restrictions have contributed to the fall in the value of the rial against the dollar in recent months.
The dollar traded at an all-time high of 60.000 Rial last week, teasing, among Iranians, serious concerns about the stability that the President Hassan Rouhani had brought about the economy by controlling exchange rates.
Since last year, the rial lost approximately 50% of its value compared to the US currency, which some Iranians buy in large quantities as an investment in times of great economic uncertainty.
A sudden drop in the value of the Rial is expected to cause an increase in the price of imported goods and increase the inflation rate.
To control the currency crisis, the government last week froze free trade in the us currency by introducing an official rate of 42.000 rials for every dollar.
The Central Bank said it would provide dollars only to those registered to use them for specific purposes, while the free exchange of foreign currency will be deemed illegal.

Seif, Head of the Central Bank, faced lawmakers' fury last week, when he took the parliamentary podium to explain the new forex policies. He suggested to the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei the use of the euro in foreign trade to replace the US dollar.
A short term fix?

In the meantime, a currency trader told Al Jazeera that these new policies are “good news for importers and exporters”, but which have generated confusion for its business.
“Even if the government replaces the dollar with the euro, the dollar is still traded and used as an investment by many in the free market.", he said, preferring to remain anonymous.
“I hope these decisions are not just temporary measures – like a fever-reducing pill – because international restrictions on the dollar affect our economic stability”.
There have been growing concerns among Iranian businesses about a possible US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.
US President Donald Trump should decide the 12 May if his administration confirms sanctions that were lifted as part of the nuclear deal.
He believes the deal isn't working because it doesn't address Iran's missile program, as well as its military presence in the region.
Iran says its missiles are for defensive purposes.
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Source: https://www.aljazeera.com
Link: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2018/04/iran-replace-dollar-euro-financial-reports-180418183855096.html
18.04.2018
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I know which country will be next to be invaded by the United States
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Of Lee Camp
I know which country will be next to be invaded by the United States
Source: Comedonchisciotte
At the end of this article, it will be clear which nation will be next to be invaded and devastated by the United States. O, in the absence of this, what will be the next nation that our military and intelligence industrial complex will try to invade at all costs.
We would all like to know why America does what it does. And I don't mean why Americans do what we do. I think this question could be asked, in many centuries, some future professor, as he shows his students a telepathic video of some current UFC fight [Ultimate Fighting Championship – mixed martial arts] where the contestants kick each other in the face in front of a cheering crowd (not for one or the other of the two combatants, but rather for (view) more kicks in the face).
But we all seem to take America for granted, understood as an entity and as a corporation, has some kind of higher motivation for his behaviors, for the actions carried out by its ruling class. But, in practice, Most of us realize that the reasons fed to us by press officers and ridiculous evening news anchors are the most rotten, smelliest bullshit there could be.. Read More

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It's not the United States versus Assad: it's United States versus Iran
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Of Editorial team
The effort of those who curate this Catholic-traditionalist or integral Catholic site is to help understand the facts that happen in the world. We don't give “magisterial definitions”, we don't produce “kill the game”, we hate niche intellectualism and snippets that no one reads. We love current events because by trying to delve deeper into them we believe we can keep our feet on the ground, with realism and pragmatism, avoiding flights of fancy and drifts of various kinds, which seem grotesque to us, such as ecumania to raise cash, the Freemasonmania that sees lodges even in the coffee cup, the conspiracy mania that NEVER sees the facts as they are but NECESSARY with a conspiracy, nostalgia for dead historical eras, that will never return, the “speckling” of Tradition, through hypocritical personalisms. The articles that are reported to us or those that we write are only contributions to the search for the Truth or harsh criticisms of modernity, in the wake of writers, authors, authoritative thinkers who preceded us.
We do it with the style of publicly engaged lay people, therefore journalistic or essayistic e, Obviously, not everything we publish by other authors involves adhering to their thoughts or actions. This is not Pravda nor Osservatore Romano. E’ a free space, sometimes provocative, It's not mainstream, follows a very clear line, which is integral Catholic and identitarian, open to constructive criticism. We know that most of our many readers (circa 2.000 daily on average, but with very high peaks, that reach the 10.000 on some occasions) he knows what he testifies. We know that you can't please everyone and that's part of it “game”. For those who persist in not wanting to understand this guideline: let's deal with it.
Of Tim Black
It's not the United States versus Assad: it's United States versus Iran
Source: Comedonchisciotte
If there is anything that can be indicative of how superficial and provocative the airstrikes against Syria have been, this is the almost desperate refusal of the United States and its allies to take responsibility for the consequences, intentional or not, of attacks.
We were told it was a targeted mission, self-sufficient, and that its objectives have been completely met. Jim Mattis, the United States Secretary of Defense, he called the attacks “isolated” and nothing more than that. Even more revealing, Boris Johnson, UK Foreign Secretary, he said the attacks were limited to preventing the chemical weapons “taboo” from being undermined, stating that “the Syrian war will continue as before”. Read More

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I like the smell of the crumbling Empire in the morning
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Of Aidan O'Brien
I like the smell of the crumbling Empire in the morning
Source: Comedonchisciotte
Gore Vidal preferred chaos to order. With his wisdom he believed that centrifugal forces created fractures and spaces in which freedom could fornicate.
Seeing how things are, this is the best we can hope for. However, we could also be satisfied with what happens around us. Why the deceptive plot of the Anglo-American gang, which filled the last ones 200 years of liberal imperialism, it's losing steam. The great illusion is falling apart.
The large chessboard is also not in the best condition. The Anglo-American strategy to control Eurasia has been torn apart by the Eurasians. The grandfather of ISIS, Zbigniew Brzezinski, he's probably rolling in his grave. According to him, geopolitics was just hegemony. And that's one thing that, at the moment, no one owns, least of all Anglo-Americans. Read More

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The hypocrisy of chemical weapons
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Of Robert Fish
The hypocrisy of chemical weapons
Source: Comedonchisciotte
The hypocrisy of it all. These ignoble intentions. The carelessness. The shameful lies and excuses.
I'm not talking about the US president with hasty and impulsive tweets and his desires to escape police raids on his lawyer's office - obviously there is a connection with Russia.
And I'm not talking about his latest scandal. It's possible that life with Melania isn't going swimmingly at the moment. Better to talk about this than to sit with generals and ex-generals and seriously discuss Russia and Syria.
I'm not talking about Theresa May, who wants to avoid the Brexit discussion through every type of distraction possible: the Salisbury attacks, Douma -also Trump. So when the poor lady thought she had gotten the consent of the US President, Trump called Macron. What is all this nonsense? Read More

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