former title: Politics for the 99% – then under world-citizenship.org – encore en reconstruction
Published on Dissident Voice, by Ellen Hodgson Brown, April 13, 2014.
Taxpayers are paying billions of dollars for a swindle pulled off by the world’s biggest banks, using a form of derivative called interest-rate swaps; and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has now joined a chorus of litigants suing over it … //
… The Largest Cartel in World History: Continuer la lecture de « The Global Banking Game Is Rigged, and the FDIC Is Suing »
Published on Dissident Voice, by Binoy Kampmark, April 12, 2014.
Edward Snowden’s revelations on the voracious appetite of spying on all and sundry by the National Security Agency and allied agencies should not give pause for too much comment, other than to affirm a general premise: activists and non-government groups are to be feared. Non-profits are seen as potential threats, though what to is sometimes unclear. Any government worth its salt should be afraid of its citizens – the latter must make the former accountable; the former must hold to the contractual bargain with citizens. Continuer la lecture de « Irresistible: Espionage, Dissent, and NGOs »
Published on Amnesty International, April 11, 2014;
Somali refugees and asylum-seekers living in Kenya are being trapped in a catch-22 situation by the government’s counter-terrorism crackdown, Amnesty International said as thousands of Somalis continued to be rounded up by security forces in Nairobi.
Registration of Somali refugees in Kenya has been largely halted since December 2011, preventing many who should qualify for refugee status from obtaining papers. Without these they could be returned to Somalia, where they may be at risk of human rights abuses. Continuer la lecture de « Kenya: Somalis trapped in ‘catch-22’ amid crackdown on refugees »
Is the US or the World Coming to an End? It will be One or the Other – Published on Global Research.ca, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, April 10, 2014.
2014 is shaping up as a year of reckoning for the United States.
Two pressures are building on the US dollar. One pressure comes from the Federal Reserve’s declining ability to rig the price of gold as Western gold supplies shrivel and market knowledge of the Fed’s illegal price rigging spreads. Continuer la lecture de « War and the Demise of the US Dollar? »
Published on truthout, by Laura Flanders, April 9, 2014.
Video on GRITtv: Interview With Jessica Gordon Nembhard, 15.28 min, (also on YouTube, uploaded there by GRITtv, April 8, 2014).
Excerpt of Transcript:
… So, tell us some of the stories. Some of the documents in your book go all the way back to slavery times. Continuer la lecture de « Solidarity Economics, a Forgotten Practice of the Black Radical Tradition »
Published on Washington’s Blog, by blog owner, April 8, 2014.
… This is not the first false flag by NATO members. For example:
Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi will officially become a presidential candidate this week, but speculation is already high regarding who will be among his presidential staff and what his policies will be … //
… Shades of grey: … //
… Human rights versus security: Continuer la lecture de « Egypt: What vision for the future will El-Sisi bring? »
Published on ZNet, by David Harvey, April 7, 2014.
This is an excerpt — the last two chapters — from Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism by David Harvey, out now from Profile Books. David Harvey the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. He has authored such books as The Condition of Postmodernity (1989), A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2005), and A Companion to Marx’s Capital (2010). An interview with Harvey was featured on our website in 2012.
Prospects for a Happy but Contested Future: The Promise of Revolutionary Humanism: Continuer la lecture de « The End of Capitalism »
Published on Global Research.ca (first on Eco-Watch), by Global Research News, April 4, 2014.
Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) will introduce legislation this month backed by the Grocery Manufactures Association—including biotech giant Monsanto and Koch Industries—that would establish a voluntary labeling system for food made withgenetically modified organisms (GMO), according to an industry insider.
The bill includes a “prohibition against mandatory labeling,” according to The Hill, and is designed to head off the many state bills and ballot initiatives that would impose more stringent labeling regulations on GMOs … // Continuer la lecture de « Republicans Introduce Koch-Funded, Monsanto-Backed Bill to Establish Voluntary GMO Food Labeling »
Radicalise, reform or fragment: these are the options facing the Muslim Brotherhood – on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Dina Ezzat, April 3, 2014.
Most people expect that on 5 June that Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi will be inaugurated as Egypt’s new president. The recently resigned military chief officially announced his candidacy against a backdrop that includes — according to local and international human rights organisations — the detention of more than 20,000 Muslim Brotherhood members who face a raft of charges. Triple that number are thought to be on the run, either in Egypt or abroad. Continuer la lecture de « Egypt: Uncertain futures »
von Kleinkunstpreis 2014 alle im März 2014 auf YouTube hochgeladen:
Links: Continuer la lecture de « deutsche Polit-Comedy im März 2014 »
Published on Pambazuka News, by Hamza Hamouchene, April 3, 2014.
In the run up to Algeria’s presidential elections on 17 April, a tragic comedy unfolds in which presidential candidates contest against a rigid regime with false stability. The outcome of the election is predetermined; and the people will lose, no matter which candidate wins.
Algeria’s next presidential elections will be held on 17 April 2014 and for the last few months; this important electoral rendezvous showed all the hallmarks of a masquerade, consistent with almost all the elections in the history of the Algerian state since independence in 1962. Continuer la lecture de « The Algerian presidential elections: The burlesque, the tragicomic and the farcical »
Published on Real-World Economics Review Blog, by Peter Radford, April 2, 2014.
… If we are to set up an institute to support change, provoke discussion, and otherwise meddle about with the established way of thinking, and thus to earn the moniker of “newness”, we ought not to pack our agendas with a steady stream of establishment figures. That is not the way to revolution. It might, however, be the way to raise esteem and thus get the institution media attention.
Newness in economics is devilishly hard to locate. This is due, possibly, to the continued warring amongst longstanding points of view that have neither been reconciled nor defeated. Indeed, from my perspective, it is practically impossible to kill off an economic idea once it has attached itself to an ideological flag. Continuer la lecture de « Reformist Economics »
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uploaded on YouTube by ggwporg, March 2014:
Published on Intrepid Report, by Paul Craig Roberts, April 1, 2014.
… In the Genesis of the World War, Harry Elmer Barnes shows that World War 1 was the product of 4 or 5 people. Three stand out: Raymond Poincaré, president of France; Sergei Sazonov, Russian foreign minister; and Alexander Izvolski, Russian ambassador to France. Poincaré wanted Alsace-Lorraine from Germany, and the Russians wanted Istanbul and the Bosphorus Strait, which connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. They realized that their ambitions required a general European war and worked to produce the desired war. Continuer la lecture de « Pushing toward the final war »