By Gilbert Mercier – France is at a crossroad. A fairly benign bread-and-butter protest has turned into a major popular dissent putting in question France’s political system. It is new, unheard of, and because we live in the digital age, with immediate communication, the world is not only watching, but there is a contagious factor […]
Gilets Jaunes Referendum by Initiative of Citizens (RIC): Push to Revive a Democracy
By Gilbert Mercier The illusion of democracy The Gilets Jaunes movement took most observers and so-called experts in France and worldwide entirely by surprise, but it was actually completely predictable. The crisis simmered below the radars of France’s politicians, media, as well as those who considered themselves the enlightened figures of the intelligentsia for […]
Are the Gilets Jaunes Today’s Sans-Culottes?
By Gilbert Mercier “Pour le peuple, il y a toujours la misère!” Anonymous Gilet Jaune From the Island of La Reunion to the Napoleonic symbol that is the Arc de Triomphe, through big and small towns, as well as the usually bucolic countryside in France, there is something special in the air: the smell of […]
Assange’s integrity remains unwavering in the face of heightened threats to his health, safety and freedom
What is the Assange case all about? By Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli . It is about the situation of the publisher of an important news outlet, where the information “goal is justice, the method is transparency”. A recently published story in Newsweek, headed “Prosecuting Assange is Essential for Restoring our National Security”, carries […]
How UK’s Integrity [disinformation] Initiative backfires?
By Marcello Ferrada de Noli, Professor Emeritus, Swedish Doctors for Human Rights (SWEDHR) chair. ………………………………………. Editor’s Note: Sputnik International asked SWEDHR chairman his opinion around the issue “How will the revelation of the UK Integrity Initiative project’s existence affect UK’s relationship with Europe and particularly with Russia? Excerpts of the interview statements has […]
The detention of Julian Assange and his forced isolation from the world
By Stefania Maurizi . They are destroying him slowly. They are doing it through an indefinite detention which has been going on for the last eight years with no end in sight. Julian Assange has become one of the most widely known icons of freedom of the press and the struggle against state secrecy. […]
Con Bautista van Schouwen
New book release by Libertarian Books, the publisher of The Indicter Magazine. Con Bautista van Schouwen – Marcello Ferrada de Noli Read the book in full text here: http://libertarianbooks.se/con-bautista-van-schouwen-marcello-ferrada-de-noli/ Quick download the book here: Con Bautista van Schouwen – Marcello Ferrada de Noli- Link to the book, full text [Spanish text]: The young Chilean […]
The Global Rise of Fascism: Capitalism End Game?
By Gilbert Mercier It is everywhere. In a few years, it has metastasized like a cancer, on all continents. Its fervent proponents and ill-informed supporters call it populism or nationalism. In the Italy, Germany, or Spain of the 1930s, however, this ideology of exclusion and fear, defined by a hatred of the other, together […]
Personal testimony by a revolutionary professor on the military coup in Chile – By Prof Anders Romelsjö
Image above published by Italian newspaper L’Eco di Bergamo. Translated caption: “An historical photo. A young Marcello Ferrada de Noli together with other Resistance members at the prisoner’s camp of Quiriquina Island”. Professor Med Dr Anders Romelsjö: “It’s high time to spread this unique report by my friend and colleague, Professor Emeritus Marcello Ferrada de […]
The Iranians are in Syria legally, while U.S. occupation troops are there illegally
– On Russia’s decision to deliver S-300 air defense system to Syria Editor’s Note: Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli, our editor-in-chief, was interviewed by Sputnik International 25 Sept 2018. Here below some edited excerpts. The original interview was published by Sputnik International, headed “S-300 Deliveries May Help Deter Any Power to Strike Syria – […]