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[embedded content] An absolutely riveting but disturbing documentary about child prostitution in Afghanistan. The English RT team go to Afghanistan and interview a pimp and his team and I couldn't believe how open and honest they were, but child prostitution with boys over the age of 12 years old is not illegal, or a blind eye is turned, in Afghanistan. Women are not allowed out, and if they do get out occasionally in the back streets, they are fully covered head to toe. Men are frustrated...

[embedded content] I was wondering whether to put this out when I saw Tom's post, American Meddling in the Ukraine, so I thought that this fits in. The US has supported fascism all over the world, toppled democratic regimes, and has perpetuated the most extreme violence and brutality to keep their fascist regimes in place. It is now supporting Neo-Nazi fascists in the Ukraine. And yet it portrays itself as the bastion of freedom, liberty, and democracy, while it considers itself the World's...

I'm sure Tom put out Part 1 on this (embedded). Here's Part 2. It's shocking, the Neocons are neo-fascists. [embedded content] However much Russiagate may annoy Trump personally, administration officials like H.R. McMaster are seizing on it to advance a militarist agenda at home and abroad. Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss

This is the first of three election reports which the author will publish in the coming month culminating in his findings as an officially invited international observer to the 18 March elections. Detailed report on all candidates except Putin, who is well-known and expected to win handily.Putin's only credible challenger seems to be Communist Party candidate, Pavel Grudinin. He is not a Communist Party member himself, but is being put forward as a unifying choice for the Left.However,...

Historians will note the tremendous irony of the United States engaging in subversion and election meddling in Ukraine that surpasses anything attempted by Russia. The ideological fissures that are growing in the United States are beginning to resemble the warring camps that characterize the Ukrainian political world. The divide in Ukraine pits groups who are described as "right wing" and many are ideological descendants of real Nazis and Nazi sympathizers against groups with a strong...

The Cold War displaced the legacies of the New Deal. Time and Trump are now displacing Cold War legacies. Where capitalism was questioned and challenged in the 1930s and into the 1940s, doing that became taboo after 1948. Yet in the wake of the 2008 crash, critical thought about capitalism resumed. In particular one argument is gaining traction: capitalism is not the means to realize economic equality and democracy, it is rather the great obstacle to their realization.... Economic...

[embedded content] Lee Camp's excellent take on Russiagate. Yes, a foreign internet company did help Trump win the election, but it was British. In fact, this British company has helped the Republicans to win 44 elections when including state ones. But guess what, this is not uncommon, many Western companies help foreign political parties to win elections because it's their business? Many of these companies are marketing and advertising firms, and many American companies do it too. It's a...

Former Texas Congressman and leading libertarian thinker Dr. Ron Paul has shared his views on President Trump's job as president after his first year in office, the situation in Syria and the renewed debate on gun control in the wake of the Florida school shooting.... Sputnik International'We Can't Continue to Run the World': Ron Paul's EXCLUSIVE Interview for Sputnik

American lawyer and historian, Alfred de Zayas, an expert in the field of human rights, warned about the use of the term humanitarian crisis to intervene in Venezuela and overthrow the current government.Alfred de Zayas, the independent expert of the United Nations (UN) on the Promotion of an International Democratic and Equitable Order, concluded after his visit to Venezuela that this country does not suffer a humanitarian crisis, unlike countries in Africa or Asia where there are wars and...

Avoiding mathiness and economism. Conversable EconomistSome Thoughts About Economic Exposition in Math and WordsTimothy Taylor | Managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, based at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota