On the 17th of September 2016, a coalition of 33 activist networks organized nationwide demonstrations across Germany under the banner “STOP CETA & TTIP” that were aimed against so called transnational free trade agreements such as TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) and CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement).
Prof. Noam Chomsky, der renommierte Linguist, Philosoph, Autor und Aktivist liefert den historischen Kontext von Freihandelsabkommen und erläutert die Auswirkungen, die das Abkommen auf Demokratie, Arbeitsrechte und die Umwelt haben könnte.
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The Pardon Snowden campaign, supported by the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, will work through the end of Obama’s administration to make the case that Snowden’s act of whistleblowing benefited the United States and enriched democratic debate worldwide. The campaign urges citizens around the world to write to the president via the pardonsnowden.org site, as attention is to drawn to Snowden by this week’s release of the film “Snowden,” directed by Oliver Stone and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
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This is the first video part of an event organized and recorded by the New York Public Library in which the renowned linguist and political philosopher, Noam Chomsky, and the former finance minister and founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement, Yanis Varoufakis, talk about neoliberalism and its attacks on democracy. They also discuss the historical role that the private and public sector have played in the economy.
Im folgenden Video spricht Paul Jay von The Real News Network mit dem ehemaligen US-Senator Bob Graham. Graham war der Vorsitzende der „Gemeinsamen Untersuchung der Nachrichtendienst-Aktivitäten vor und nach den Terrorangriffen am 11. September 2011“, in der die Aktivitäten der US-amerikanischen Nachrichtendienste in Verbindung mit den Angriffen am 11. September untersucht wurden. In diesem Interview redet Graham über die saudische Rolle bei den Ereignissen des 11.September, sowie deren Einfluss auf die amerikanische Außenpolitik.
In the following video Paul Jay from The Real News Network interviews former US Senator Bob Graham. Graham chaired the “Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11 2001” that investigated the activities of the U.S. Intelligence Community in connection with the September 11, 2001 attacks. In this interview Graham talks about his findings on the failures and negligence by US intelligence services before the 9/11 attacks, the role of Saudi Arabia, the 28 redacted pages of the 9/11 report and many other topics that are seldom talked about in the mainstream press.