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The CADTM draws attention to two IMF documents dating from March and May 2010 that were kept secret. These authentic documents were placed at the disposal...

IMF is arguing for restructuring the Greek debt, which it recognizes as "highly non sustainable". It contributed largely itself to this result by organizing "Bail...

By Mehmet Bildik Original post date: 25 January 2017 Before World War I , Britain had enjoyed almost a century of unparalleled peace and prosperity. Despite rapid...

By Tyler Durden It seems that all ideas suspected of being "populist" -- or simply those ideas without the blessing of the elites --...

Par Nicolas Bonnal 29 Septembre 2016 Depuis quand, et pourquoi, sommes-nous ainsi soumis aux américains ? Voyons un maître pour comprendre la situation. Contrairement à ses disciples...

par Jacques Sapir 4 Novambre 2016 L’Union européenne traverse aujourd’hui crise majeure. Il s’agit d’une crise économique mais aussi d’une crise d’identité. A l’origine de cette crise...

In the aftermath of the November 8 US presidential election, sections of the Democratic Party, the intelligence services and the media have intensified unsubstantiated pre-election claims that the Russian government hacked into Democratic Party email servers to undermine the campaign of Hillary Clinton.

With superpowers backing different sides in the bloody conflict in Syria, Isis continuing to fight in the Middle East, a spate of terrorist attacks across the globe and Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump both talking a tough game, the YouGov survey of 9,000 people across nine countries found popular opinion thinks world peace has rarely been further away.

More than four years on, we know that in 2012 the political fallout was only just beginning. It was in December 2011 that David Cameron reopened the European question by opting out of the new ‘fiscal compact’ drawn up by Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy with the aim of enforcing budget discipline across the EU. In the US in spring 2012, Mitt Romney emerged as the candidate from the Republican primaries, but the freakshow anticipated the Trump campaign to come. In Italy the ousting of Berlusconi in a backroom coup in November 2011 and the installation of the ‘unpolitical’ economist Mario Monti as prime minister set the stage for the emergence of Beppe Grillo and Five Star in the local elections of May 2012. In France as the fiscal compact began to bite, François Hollande’s presidency was dead almost before it had started.

There is a long tradition in Germany of organizing state provocations for political purposes. In 1933, the Nazis organized the Reichstag fire and declared a semi-blind Dutch communist to be the sole perpetrator in order to crush the Communist Party and pass the Enabling Act, which sanctioned Hitler’s dictatorship.