the unbalanced evolution of homo sapiens

Μεγάλες εταιρείες διαφήμισης και δημοσίων σχέσεων αναλαμβάνουν συχνά να «ξεπλύνουν» τα εγκλήματα αιμοσταγών καθεστώτων. Σύντομα, κάποιες θα βρεθούν αντιμέτωπες με το πιο δύσκολο έργο του αιώνα: να καλλωπίσουν την εικόνα της Σαουδικής Αραβίας. του Άρη Χατζηστεφάνου Το να αποκεφαλίζεις ανθρώπους και να τοποθετείς τα ακέφαλα σώματά τους σε μεγάλους σταυρούς συνήθως δεν ευνοεί την εικόνα σου σε διεθνές επίπεδο. Εάν βομβαρδίζεις καθημερινά γυναικόπαιδα σε γειτονικές χώρες και ευθύνεσαι για τη μεγαλύτερη επιδημία χολέρας στη σύγχρονη ιστορία, επίσης ενδέχεται να αντιμετωπίσεις προβλήματα με το «ίματζ». Οταν, τέλος, ο Αμερικανός πρέσβης στη χώρα σου στέλνει απόρρητα τηλεγραφήματα στο Στέιτ Ντιπάρτμεντ στα οποία υποστηρίζει ότι χρηματοδοτείς τρομοκρατικές οργανώσεις σε διάφορα σημεία του πλανήτη, ίσως δυσκολευτείς να πάρεις το Νόμπελ Ειρήνης (αν και κάποιοι έχουν αποδείξει ότι είναι εφικτό). Ολες αυτές οι κατηγορίες, που βαραίνουν εδώ και δεκαετίες τη Σ

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says “certain Western countries” still support, directly or indirectly, terrorist organizations and groups in Syria despite the fact that this wrong policy has already backfired on their governments and people. The Syrian president made the comments in a meeting with an Italian parliamentary delegation headed by Mario Romani, a member of the Senate of the Republic, in the capital Damascus on Sunday, Syria's official news agency, SANA, reported. President Assad said such visits by the European delegations to Syria, with the aim of getting acquainted with the facts on the ground, could play a significant role in raising the awareness of the Western public opinion about the realities of the crisis in Syria and expose the lies told by the Western mass media in this regard. The Italian delegation had visited a number of areas in Syria in an attempt to obtain firsthand experience of what the situation was like in the war-tor

The unflinching support for the EU and its institutions is not about preventing European countries from becoming “Afghanistan.” Not about preventing collapse. Not about the inconvenience of long lines at passport control. It is about promoting an ideology, a specific worldview, a vision for the way the world should work. by Michael Nevradakis Part 7 - International cooperation and repairing what’s broken A lack of willingness to question the aforementioned political and economic order may help explain why even those individuals who expressed “solidarity” with Greece—at least up until Greece and its crisis were largely forgotten following the July 2015 referendum—nevertheless refused to question the very core issues of the EU, its policies in Greece and other crisis-stricken countries, and continued membership in the EU and the Eurozone. Even during the “#ThisIsACoup” phase of “solidarity” towards Greece, the “bad” Europeans who were said to be blackmaili

The WIKILEAKS Public Library of US Diplomacy (PlusD) holds the world's largest searchable collection of United States confidential, or formerly confidential, diplomatic communications. As of April 8, 2013 it holds 2 million records comprising approximately 1 billion words. The collection covers US involvements in, and diplomatic or intelligence reporting on, every country on earth. It is the single most significant body of geopolitical material ever published. The PlusD collection, built and curated by WikiLeaks, is updated from a variety of sources, including leaks, documents released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and documents released by the US State Department systematic declassification review. globinfo freexchange A cable back in November 2004 that appears to be originated from the US Embassy in Caracas, express the deep concerns of the US officials about the victory of Hugo Chavez in the referendum held in August of the same year.

A tropical storm warning has been issued for the southern part of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula as Hurricane Norma approaches with 120kph (75mph) winds. The US National Hurricane Center said the storm became a hurricane on Friday evening as it swept towards the southern tip of the peninsula in northwestern Mexico. Mexico’s National Meteorological Service (SMN) issued a warning on Saturday morning, saying the storm will bring rains, strong winds, and a powerful swell, which will affect the west and northwest of the country and the southern part of Baja California. SMN forecast that the cyclone will slowly move northwards over the next few days, with tropical storm conditions expected to hit the coast on Sunday. The storm is expected to eventually make landfall on September 19. A tropical storm warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected somewhere within the warning area within 36 hours. “ Norma has been nearly stationary, but a