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In this week’s acTVism Editorial Pick, Aaron Mate from The Real News Network interviews Anand Gopal, an Afghanistan correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, about the actual civilian death toll in Iraq from the US bombing campaign as opposed to the figures provided by the U.S. government.

Due to limited financial & technical resources as a non-profit and volunteer-based organization, we were unable to translate this article into English.

In this acTVism Munich editorial pick, Aaron Mate of The Real News Network talks to The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel about the wider implications of the decision made by the U.S. Justice Department to force Russia Today (RT) to register as a foreign agent.

In this editorial pick Andrew Feinstein, author of the book Shadow Wars, outlines the tactics that need to be employed in order to halt global militarism. From touching on the importance of producing information, undertaking direct action to divesment tactics, Feinstein gives a range of options that one could employ in order to halt the influence of the military industrial complex.

In this video award-winning journalist and bestselling author, Max Blumenthal, talks about the wider implications of the decision made by the U.S. Justice Department to force Russia Today (RT) to register as as a foreign agent. In addition Blumenthal analyses the forces and reasons behind this decision as well why progressive media outlets are failing to cover this issue.

In this speech Vijay Prashad, professfor of international studies at the Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, talks about U.S. militarization from an historical perspective and the effects it has on the culture at home.

In this week’s acTVism Editorial Pick, Aaron Mate from The Real News Network interviews The Intercept’s Washington, D.C. bureau chief, Ryan Grim, about how Saudi Arabia and the UAE influence opinion and policy in Washington D.C.. In addition they talk about Saudi Arabian & regional politics as well as what mechanisms are employed by the Saudi establishment in order to maintain a narrative of “modernization”.

Nach dem Erfolg seines Werkes “Das Ende der Megamaschine. Geschichte einer scheiternden Zivilisation“, das die Entstehungsgeschichte globaler Krisen untersucht, widmet sich der Berliner Autor und Mitbegründer von Kontext TV in seinem neuen Buch der Gegenwart und Zukunft.