Mois : février 2014

Published on Intrepid Report, by Rajesh Makwana, February 12, 2014.

… The green economy vs. the greed economy:

Invariably, the big business lobby advocates for market-based solutions to environmental problems and the ‘greening’ of economic growth, and essentially works to safeguard opportunities for private sector investment and shareholder profit. But environmentalists and civil society organisations have long argued that there is something deeply misguided about putting corporate profits and market-based solutions at the forefront of our response to climate change and the wider environmental crisis. Continuer la lecture de « Moving beyond the corporate vision of sustainability »

Published on Real-World Economics Review Blog, by Peter Radford, Feb 11, 2014.

You would have thought that, after all this time, economics would change. Or be changing. Or even be hinting at the possibility of changing. However, while there are a few encouraging signs, there is precious little sign of said motion inside the citadels that dominate the discipline. We still have a profession stuck in a most unprofessional rut, pursuing thinking that reflects not the world around it, but itself.   Continuer la lecture de « Do over? »

• Former BBC Journalist and Bilderberg Expert Tony Gosling, 21.30 min, uploaded by wearechange, June 7, 2013;
• Tony Goslin Captured Live on Ustream …, 69.07 min, uploaded by Goodisplanetearth gipetv, August 20, 2013: see also Ustream, /videos;
• Freemasonry: The firm within the firm, on Russia Today RT, Jan 23, 2014: Beginning his working life in the aviation industry and trained by the BBC, Tony Gosling is a British land rights activist, historian & investigative radio journalist;
• The Snowden Files: How to turn another hero into a villain, on Russia Today RT, Feb 7, 2014: Beginning his working life in the aviation industry and trained by the BBC, Tony Gosling is a British land rights activist, historian & investigative radio journalist …;
• Tony Gosling also on unwelcome guests.net; on public interest.co.uk; on YouTube-search; on Google Web-search.

Proposed public service overhaul includes education hit squads to boost performance of failing schools or teachers – Published on The Guardian, by Patrick Wintour, Feb 9, 2014.

Parents are to be given a new power to call in a specialist team to boost the performance of failing schools or teachers, under a set of wide-ranging public service reform plans to be laid out on Monday by the Labour leader, Ed Miliband.

The improvement team, working separately from Ofsted, will have powers to set out school improvement plans, order greater collaboration between schools or even remove failing headteachers. The body would have powers to intervene with academies, free schools and community schools.  Continuer la lecture de « Ed Miliband: Labour will give parents power to oust headteachers »

… an interview with Leo Panitch – Published on red pepper, January 2014.

Globalisation and Imperialism: … //

• … Is it really the case that other states have not also assumed the responsibility for promoting and protecting global capitalism?
• That’s a good question, one that’s not fully resolved. The US is a new type of empire that only rules in conjunction with other states, especially G7 states. It’s not merely an imposition. It requires a lot of institutional coordination and interpenetration. That said, the Germans in particular have been recalcitrant in taking responsibility for ‘failure containment’ in light of financial volatility. Neither has Japan been very forthcoming. By contrast, the relationship between UK and US Treasury is particularly close in playing this failure containment role, although the UK accepts that the US is the senior partner, if for no other reason than it has greater capacity. Continuer la lecture de « To challenge global capitalism we must first understand it »