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A Revolutionary Pope Calls for Rethinking the Outdated Criteria That Rule the World
by Ellen Brown
Pope Francis’ revolutionary encyclical addresses not just climate change but the banking crisis. Interestingly, the solution to that crisis may have been modeled in the Middle Ages by Franciscan monks following the Saint from whom the Pope took his name.
Pope Francis has been called “the revolutionary Pope.” Before he became Pope Francis, he was a Jesuit Cardinal in Argentina named Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the son of a rail worker. Moments after his election, he made history by taking on the name Francis, after Saint Francis of Assisi, the leader of a rival order known to have shunned wealth to live in poverty. Pope Francis’ June 2015 encyclical is called “Praised Be,” a title based on an ancient song attributed to St. Francis. Most papal encyclicals are addressed only to Roman Catholics, but this one is addressed to the world. And while its main focus is considered to be climate change, its 184 pages cover much more than that. Among other sweeping reforms, it calls for a radical overhaul of the banking system. It states in Section IV:
COLLAPSING WESTERN FINANCIAL SYSTEMG
LaRouche
Greece's Creditors Go for Blood June 25 (EIRNS)-It is clear that a decision has been made to go for blood to destroy the Greek government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. The issue is not the cuts, but the debt and Greece's relationship with the BRICS.
The Eurogroup meeting on June 24 of the euro area finance ministers began 25minutes after midnight and broke up 90 minutes later with the EU throwing Greece's proposals, which were all marked up in red ink, back into Tsipras's face, a point revealed particularly in the British press led by The Times.
Greece: Ground Zero for Global Pillage
by Stephen Lendman
Troika-waged financial war is systematically destroying Greece. It's being raped and pillaged to enrich bankers. Its people are being transformed into impoverished serfs - denied vital social services everyone deserves.
Its entire political system is corrupt. Democracy is absent where it originated. Instead of ending austerity as promised, SYRIZA piled on more, capitulating to Troika demands barely short of unconditional surrender likely coming.
Paying bankers matters more than serving all Greek citizens fairly and equitably. They're suffocating under austerity mandates no government should impose - everything for rich and privileged elites, crumbs for everyone else.
Thoughts on Independence Day Weekend
by Stephen Lendman
As Americans festively celebrate Independence Day weekend, their leaders are busy conducting business as usual.
Attempting to topple popularly elected Ecuadorean and Venezuelan governance takes precedence over barbecues, outings and other celebratory activities.
So does waging genocidal direct and proxy wars as well as covert mischief worldwide - against Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Donbass freedom fighters, Libyans wanting to live free, Somalis, partnered with Israel against Palestine and elsewhere - besides at home against Blacks, Latino immigrants, Muslims, environmental and animal rights activists, as well as political dissidents and people believing popular rights matter more than monied ones willing to risk harsh recrimination for refusing to accept less than equity and justice in a nation systematically denying both to most of its people while high-mindedly claiming otherwise.
Britain, The Empire of Evil, Pushes Genocide and World War
LaRouche
June 24 (EIRNS)-As Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip arrived Wednesday in Germany for a three-day visit, the truly Satanic nature of the British Empire was on full display. Prince Philip's top aide, Martin Palmer, is the principal organizer of a French government-sponsored Paris conference in July, peddling the same genocidal program of "Earth stewardship" that would-be mass murderer John Schellnhuber inserted into the recent Papal Encyclical on Climate Change. The Paris conference is part of the propaganda assault, leading to the next Copenhagen conference at the end of the year, also in Paris.The Worldwatch Institute, foundedby Lester Brown, has just issued a report,demanding an end to all subsidies for fossil-fuel and nuclear power, as part ofthe drive for a total conversion to renewables like solar and wind power.
The Greek Crisis:The Only Way Out of This Mess Is To Repudiate the Greek Debt
LaRouche
(EIRNS)-The European Union is just stalling, economist LyndonLaRouche said today. The Greeks have made it clear that the issues are limited, that they can not and will not pay illegitimate debt by killing their citizens. Otherwise, the Greeks will simply leave Europe. Some parts of Europe are refusing to admit the fact that their governments, or their representatives, have committed a fraud against the Greek people. Those elements are demanding that the Greeks have to pay the debt, which a fraud has created. We must tell them: The fraud will not be honored. You stole the money, for pure speculation, and you're now demanding to get it all over again. We're saying, "No. You've stolen more than enough from us already."
Trans-Pacific Partnership Guarantee
by Stephen Lendman
On Monday, Obama signed regressive Fast Track legislation into law - giving himself diktat power to ram through Congress anti-populist trade bills like TPP with minimal debate and no amendments.
Besides other provisions benefitting investors at the expense of public welfare, it's a jobs killer/environment destroyer.
Nothing Obama says is credible. "The Trans-Pacific Partnership includes strong protections for workers and the environment," he blustered in remarks before signing what demands rejection.
"This agreement will help us level the playing field," he added - like NAFTA and the US-Korea Free Trade Agreement among others.
On January 1, 1994, NAFTA's destructive life began. Like ALL US trade bills, it's anti-labor, anti-environment, anti-consumer, and anti-government serving everyone fairly and equitably.
Israel Violently Assaulted Ship to Gaza Activists
by Stephen Lendman
Israel lied saying interdicting Marianne Ship to Gaza's humanitarian mission was an "uneventful event." It was lawless and violent.
Israeli Shayetet 13 elite Naval Special Forces were used. Their missions involve violence. They're brutal warriors, highly trained in clandestine sea operations, sea-to-land incursions, assassinations, counterterrorism, and sabotage with a reputation for ruthless efficiency.
Marianne activists weren't treated gently as Israel implied. Four or more were brutally tasered - stunned by enough high-voltage to cause cardiac arrhythmia or arrest in vulnerable subjects, risking death.
Pentagon Calls Russia, China, Iran and North Korea Threats to Global Peace
by Stephen Lendman
The Pentagon's new National Military Strategy (its first update since 2011) signaled possible major wars with US adversaries.
The world's leader aggressor on a global scale named four nations threatening no others as major US security threats: Russia, China, Iran and North Korea - plus non-state groups like ISIS (without mentioning they're US creations).
The document turns truth on its head blaming Russia for violating "numerous agreements" and "military actions." It says Iran and North Korea seek nuclear weapons.
Russia Vows Continued Support for Embattled Syria
by Stephen Lendman
Obama's war is in its fourth year - using Islamic State and other takfiri terrorists as US proxies to replace Bashar al-Assad with a pro-Western puppet.
Continued conflict killed over 200,000, displaced millions more and created the world's greatest internal and external refugee crisis. Nothing in prospect suggests ending things diplomatically.
Putin and Sergey Lavrov met with Syrian Foreign Minister Wali al-Moualem in Moscow. They pledged continued support in fighting terrorism.
"Our policy of supporting Syria, its leadership and its people remains unchanged," said Putin. "Syrian people will win in the final run."
Lavrov stressed Russia will continue "all possible assistance to increase (Syria's) ability to resist the evil" of terrorist forces battling to overthrow its government.
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