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The Rise of the European Right: Reaction to the Neoliberal Right

In the absence of a Left alternative, the working class voters have opted for two alternatives: Massive voter abstention & strikes.
The European parliamentary elections witnessed a major breakthrough for the right-wing parties throughout the region. The rise of the Right runs from the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom, the Baltic and Low countries, France, Central and Eastern Europe to the Mediterranean.

Ukraine Coup Brings Russia and China Closer

The Geopolitical Implications of the Recent China-Russia Gas Agreement
Washington’s escalating military pressure against both Russia and China is bringing both Eurasian giants into close economic and even military cooperation. The latest indication of this is the signing in recent days of a mammoth natural gas agreement between Beijing and Moscow valued at $400 billion over the next 30-years. The agreement, signed after almost two decades of stalled negotiations, has major geopolitical implications.

De-Manufacturing Consent- Psychiatry’s “Useful Fictions” & the Pathologizing of Dissent

Guillermo Jimenez Presents Dr. Bruce Levine
On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent Guillermo is joined by Dr. Bruce Levine, a practicing clinical psychologist and author of the book Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite. We discuss how elites in Psychiatry and Psychology have used the “chemical imbalance fiction” for what they consider to be the “greater good,” and have kept the truth about mental illnesses like depression away from the public, while at the same time making billions for Big Pharma.

The New Great Game Round-Up: June 1, 2014

Birth of the Eurasian Economic Union, Russia’s Terror Problems & the Furious Start of China’s Anti-Terror Campaign
*The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits in Central Asia and the Caucasus region between a U.S.-dominated NATO, its GCC proxies, Russia, China and other regional players.