• The Unacceptable Easiness of Killing – on Western Terrorism

  By Milenko Srećković Often repeated statement about the greatest crime on European territory after WWII being committed in Srebrenica seems like being designed to hide the fact that the greatest crimes after Hitler were committed precisely by European states and countries of European descent, such as United States of America. Such crimes, of much greater proportions than the one in […]

  

• Political Will Crucial for Eradicating Hunger

  Freedom Fight Info editor Milenko Srećković talked with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Olivier De Schutter for Serbian Daily Politika. Freedom Fight Info presents you that interview in English. Interview with Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food By Milenko Srećković Since it is estimated that world population will grow to 9.7 […]

  

• Anti-landgrabing campaign in Serbia

  By Pavle Antonović (FreedomFight.net) Anti-landgrabing campaign in Serbia – launched by the Pokret za slobodu (www.pokret.net) several years ago as a part of its broader struggle against criminal privatization and corruption – points out that the process of the Serbia’s accession to the European Union will in fact benefit only those deeply involved in privatization theft in the last decade. […]

  

• Digging in for a new food system in Ireland

  Interview with Fergal Anderson After years of involvement in the work of social movements in Europe and Latin America, young Fergal Anderson with his partner Emanuela Russo, who he met a few years ago in Barcelona, decided to go back to his homeland and start a small vegetable farm in county Galway, Ireland. By Pavle Antonović and Vladimir Bogićević (FreedomFight.net) […]

  

• Adolf Hitler’s Birthday Gift – Memorial to Gavrilo Princip

  By Vladimir Bogićević (FreedomFight.net) In this photo Adolf Hitler is inspecting his birthday gift – the memorial taken away from Sarajevo, dedicated to Gavrilo Princip, Serbian assassin of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This assassination, one of the many that were committed all around the world at that time, was used by Austro-Hungarian Empire as a pretext for attack on Serbia, […]

  

• The Way of SYRIZA – Strategy and Current Development

  – Interview with Yiannis Bournous By Filip Krantić and Milenko Srećković (FreedomFight.net) In the last elections in Greece anti-austerity leftist political party SYRIZA was on the verge of taking power and still has a good chance for that in the next elections. At the same time, some critics from the left accuse this party of softening its current anti-capitalist policy. […]

  

• Changing Ourselves while Changing Society

  Social competitiveness as one of the basic features of capitalism is often merciless. Living in the society in which we are left to ourselves and meaningful relationships are rare, it is crucial for us to learn how to cope with the situation and to transform it for individual and collective benefit. In this exclusive interview for Freedom Fight Info Dennis […]

  

• Corporate Control over Public Interest – International Investment Treaties

  By Freedom Fight Info The last two decades have witnessed the silent rise of a powerful international investment regime that has ensnared hundreds of countries and put corporate profit before human rights and the environment. Through International investment treaties – such as Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), states determine the rights of investors in each other’s territories. These treaties include a set of investment […]

  

• Barrett Brown, the journalist that faces over 100 years in prison

  Interview with Kevin Gallagher, the director of Free Barrett Brown By Milan Srećković, FreedomFight.net Barrett Brown is an American journalist who faces over 100 years in prison for charges related to his research on government intelligence contractors. His work has appeared in the Guardian, Vanity Fair, Huffington Post and many other outlets. He has been often misrepresented in the media as a spokesperson for the […]

  

• How to Survive Depression in a Dog-Eat-Dog Society

  By Milan Srećković, FreedomFight.net Psychology and psychiatry are increasingly becoming mere tools of subordinating individuals to the current power relations and suppressing of social rebellions and resistance. Connections with authoritarian institutions and pharmaceutical business are making them more profit oriented and opened to abuse. Bruce E. Levine, a clinical psychologist who has been in practice for nearly three decades in Cincinnati, […]

  

• The European peasant movement: the struggle to change the EU

  Interview with Genevieve Savigny, representative for European Coordination of Via Campesina By Milenko Srećković and Irina Cerić, www.FreedomFight.net Genevieve Savigny shares a farm with her companion in the South of France, in the Alps. Her companion grows about 60 hectares of wheat, lavender and fodder crops. She keeps chicken and other poultry to sell at a local market, a practice […]

  

• Wind, Water and Solar Power of Preserving Life on Earth – interview with Mark Z. Jacobson

  In this exclusive interview for Freedom Fight Info, Mark Z. Jacobson, professor at Stanford University, talks about concrete solutions for climate changes and about alternatives to technology that is threatening the very life on earth as we know it. By Milan Srećković How much was done in US on converting to renewable energy and how much time it will take […]

  

• Financial worries makes you stupid, study finds

  Financial worries create cognitive deficit equivalent to 13-point loss in IQ, research shows Finding it hard to make ends meet can impoverish the brain and reduce your ability to think, say scientists. Financial worries tax the brain so much they create a “cognitive deficit” equivalent to a 13-point loss in IQ, a study found. The problem is distinct from the […]

  

• Does Obama know he’s fighting on al-Qa’ida’s side?

  If Barack Obama decides to attack the Syrian regime, he has ensured – for the very first time in history – that the United States will be on the same side as al-Qa’ida. By Robert Fisk Quite an alliance! Was it not the Three Musketeers who shouted “All for one and one for all” each time they sought combat? This […]

  

• Sarajevo, 1995 and Damascus, 2013: The use of mass attack deception to decide wars

  In August 1995, Western governments, and particularly the Bill Clinton White House, were in great quandary. The negotiations with the Serbs were going well as President Slobodan Milosevic was demonstrating unprecedented flexibility and accepting virtually all the demands put forward by the West. Hence, it was becoming politically and legally impossible for the U.S.-led West to launch the NATO military […]

  

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Chomsky: The Internet is full of people who can’t read and want to talk about sandwiches

In an interview uploaded to YouTube, Noam Chomsky answers the question “[d]oes the generative potential of the internet help to form new kinds of social or cultural associations” by saying that he knows of “actual cases” of “adolescents who think they have 500 friends, because they have 500 friends on Facebook, but these are the kinds of friends who, if […]

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by admin / on October 24, 2013 at 2:27 PM /

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Book Review: On Western Terrorism: from Hiroshima to Drone Warfare (2013, Pluto Press) by Noam Chomsky and Andre Vltchek

 By Richard Falk, Foreign Policy Journal Recently I read On Western Terrorism: from Hiroshima to Drone Warfare, published in 2013 by Pluto Press here in London, consisting of a series of conversations between Chomsky and the Czech filmmaker, journalist, and author, Andre Vltchek, who is now a naturalized American citizen. Vltchek in an illuminating Preface describes his long and close friendship […]

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by admin / on October 22, 2013 at 10:02 AM /

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About 83 Percent Of Serbian Citizens Against GMOs – Survey

In Serbia, nearly 83 percent of citizens voted to ban the presence of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on their territory, according to a survey conducted by the portal 021.rs. Of 1,827 people surveyed, 82.9 percent voted for complete prohibition of GMOs, 10.9 percent are against the ban, while 6.1 percent are undecided, according to a press release. The group “Citizens […]

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by admin / on October 21, 2013 at 11:09 PM /

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Human Rights Watch: Syrian Rebels Committed War Crimes, Killed 190 Civilians

BEIRUT (AP) — Jihadi-led rebel fighters in Syria killed at least 190 civilians and abducted more than 200 during an offensive against pro-regime villages, committing a war crime, an international human rights group said Friday. The Aug. 4 attacks on unarmed civilians in more than a dozen villages in the coastal province of Latakia were systematic and could even amount […]

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by admin / on October 11, 2013 at 12:27 PM /

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Why the Rich and Powerful Have Less Empathy

A psychologist reveals that the richer and more powerful a person is, the less empathy he or she is likely to have for people who are lower in status. By Kathleen Geier / The Washington Monthly / October 7, 2013 Psychologist Daniel Goleman has written a fascinating piece for today’s New York Times about social status and empathy. It seems that the richer and more powerful […]

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by admin / on October 7, 2013 at 8:24 PM /