ALAI this week - 7/1/2022
Biden’s persecution of Julian Assange
Democracy is under assault. President Biden must live up to his promise to support a free press, needed now more than ever, and drop the prosecution of Julian Assange.
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
The Pentagon and CIA have shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into super effective propaganda
Propaganda is most impactful when people don’t think it’s propaganda, and most decisive when it’s censorship you never knew happened.
David Swanson
January 2022: A game changing moment between Russia, America and the world
What Moscow is really asking for is to redraw the borders of influence between Russia and the West.
Tim Kirby
Our democracy faces the gravest danger
Unless the Republicans and Democrats put the nation above their party and personal interests, democracy in the US will face the gravest danger in more than a hundred years.
Alon Ben-Meir
“The iron cage” of Capital
The unexpected may occur, within the quantum perspective assumed by the new cosmology: the current suffering due to the systemic crisis will not be in vain; it is accumulating benign energies that will make a leap to another, higher order.
Leonardo Boff
After the largest anti-racist uprising in the US, historic trials provide important lessons
In the year 2021, it was the turn of the US government, particularly its judicial system, to respond to the protests of 2020.
Natalia Marques
Forecast for 2022
Emerging economy governments are faced with either applying severe fiscal austerity that would prolong their stagnation; or devaluing their currencies to try and boost export growth.
Michael Roberts
Inequality
While poverty makes people suffer, inequality tears apart and divides societies, and makes them powerless.
Francine Mestrum
The US Strategic Provocations before and during the Olympic Games
To make your foe act in a definite way through the planned escalation of events, thereby making him lose his position and assets is the essence of any international provocation.
Evgeny Pashentsev