Venezuela Mulls Suing JP Morgan over De Facto Economic Blockade

The U.S. investment bank claimed that Venezuela's state oil company missed debt payments. The country hasn't missed payments since 2002. 

Venezuela may take legal action against U.S. investment bank J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. after the financial institution accused the South American country’s state oil corporation of being behind in bond payments — an allegation the company denies. Read more.

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Uribe rejects revised Colombia peace deal; Conservatives push for referendum

Colombia’s former president Alvaro Uribe formally rejected a revised peace deal and the coalition Conservative Party demanded a second referendum after a vote sunk the initial pact with the country’s largest rebel group. 

The new deal is expected to be before Congress on Wednesday so that the legislative body can begin debates to ultimately ratify the agreement... Read more.

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Trump confirmed his willingness to normalize Russia-US relations - Putin at APEC

Speaking on Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, Putin said Moscow would have to wait and see as rhetoric during presidential campaign could differ from actual White House policies.

He noted that Trump has confirmed his willingness to improve US-Russian relations.

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Brussels votes for ‘EU army’ to operate ‘where NATO is unwilling’

The European Union hopes to ratify plans for a combined, continent-wide army.

EU politicians met in Brussels to thrash out details of the proposed force and will later vote on establishing an “EU-wide system for the coordination of rapid movement of defense forces personnel.”

RT

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Nomi Prins Explains The Central Bankers' Game of Thrones

Today James talks to Nomi Prins, author of books like All The Presidents Bankers, about her recent article "The Central Bank Power Shift from West to East, Game of Thrones Style." 

We talk about the changing economic and monetary landscape and how the locus of central bank power is shifting to the East, with players like the People's Bank of China gaining in prominence and former US/EU lapdogs like the IMF becoming brokers for these new power players in the new world financial order. Read more.

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Trump Is An Inside Job

"Statists are always gonna state and absolute power always corrupts absolutely. Trump is merely the right’s version of Obama.

If you really thought the left-right paradigm was abandoned, that the powers-that-be would let an actual outsider not only run for president but win… well, I suggest you spend more time researching the new world order and less time voting for some power-hungry individual who claims to make everything great again." - Dan Dicks. More video.

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Beastie Boys' Ad-rock Leads Anti-hate Rally in Brooklyn

Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock is taking a stand against Trump and his supporters' hate crimes.

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Russian experts find evidence of chemical weapons use by terrorists in Aleppo - MoD

Russian experts have found evidence that terrorists have been using chemical weapons in their regular attacks in Aleppo, Russia’s Defense Ministry said, adding that the UN’s watchdog hasn’t sent any specialists to the besieged city despite requests.

RT

Hundreds of Spaniards protest against rampant energy poverty

Hundreds of Spanish citizens gathered in 26 cities on Saturday to protest against the country's widespread energy poverty and the abuses committed by energy corporations. 

Their outrage was sparked by the recent death of an elderly woman in northeastern Spain whose apartment caught fire due to her involuntary use of candles for lighting, after the gas company cut off her energy supply in September. Read more.

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Gap with Russia disturbing: Israeli official

A senior Israeli official says Tel Aviv should be concerned about deepening disconnect with Moscow over Russia's role in the Syria conflict.

Avi Dichter, chairman of Israel's foreign affairs and military committee and the former head of the Shin Bet intelligence agency, says Russia’s interests in the region by no means coincide with Israel’s. Read more.

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Zorgwekkend: wapenhandel bedreigt veiligheid - Shadow World

Politici en dictators verdienen miljarden met de verkoop van raketten, geweren en bommen. Voor hun documentaire The Shadow World doken regisseur Johan Grimonprez en oud-politicus Andrew Feinstein in de schimmige wereld van de internationale wapenhandel.

Bekijk de hele aflevering op: http://www.rtlxl.nl/#!/gemist/rtl-late-night-301978

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Philippines’ Duterte threatens to copy Russia ICC exit

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to follow in Russia’s footsteps Thursday and pull his country out of the International Criminal Court, incensed at foreign criticism of his deadly drug war.

Russia formally withdrew its signature to the ICC’s founding Rome Statute on Wednesday, calling the tribunal’s work “one-sided and inefficient”. Read more.

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ICC considering probe into US war crimes in Afghanistan

A recent report issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) suggests that the US military and the CIA may have committed war crimes in Afghanistan, mostly between 2003 and 2004.

Experts in Afghanistan also accuse the US government of being involved in war crimes in the country.

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The secret Pentagon command that tried to plant a fake bomb in D.C.

The Joint Special Operations Command has become one of the most important cogs in the U.S. war machine.

Known as JSOC, it is part of the Department of Defense. It oversees the army’s elite Delta Force fighters, the Navy Seals and a fleet of drones. It has played a major role in the U.S. response to 9/11 — and in every theater of the Global War on Terror: Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, now Syria. Read more + audio.

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Greek police clash with anti-Obama protesters

Clashes have broken out between Greek riot police and people protesting against visiting US President Barack Obama. Police used tear gas to disperse the demonstrators.

The protesters took to the streets of Athens in defiance of a government ban on any public gathering. The rallies were organized by left-wing groups. They called on people to march against the US president as the main representative of imperialist forces. They also urged the protesters to clash with police in order to sabotage Obama’s trip.

The Greek capital is already on a security lockdown with central districts of the city, subway stations and tourist hubs out of access. The government has also deployed thousands of security forces.

Anti-US sentiment runs high in Greece which still remembers the Washington’s support for the Junta dictatorship in the 1960s and 70s.

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