former title: Politics for the 99% – then under world-citizenship.org – encore en reconstruction
Published on Global Research.ca, by Andrew J. Santos, May 3, 2014.
The revelation concerning a secretive airborne surveillance test in Compton, CA is disturbing. The Los Angeles County Sheriff Department via “Persistent Surveillance Systems”, spied on residents in Compton, CA for nine days in 2012.[1] Continuer la lecture de « Secretive Airborne Police Surveillance in California »
Published on Spiegel Online International, by SUSANNE AMANN, FRANK DOHMEN, JÖRG KRAMER, PAUL MIDDELHOFF AND BARBARA SCHMID, April 30. 2014.
As Moscow continues to escalate the situation in Ukraine, public and political pressure is turning against German companies who do business with Russia. The countries’ economic ties make disengagement next to impossible.
Clemens Tönnies usually says what he thinks. When, on a February morning, he climbed into a private jet with his wife Margit to fly to the Olympic Games in Sochi, he described his views on Russia to a reporter with Sport Bild magazine: It has « bothered him, how negatively this country has been portrayed … // Continuer la lecture de « Little Love for Sanctions: Ukraine Crisis A Tightrope Walk for German Businesses »
Published on Axis of Logic, by Alex Park/Mother Jones, April 28, 2014.
(Editorial comment: The French title of Jean Ziegler’s latest book translates literally as ‘Mass Destruction – the Geopolitics of Hunger’. When I translated the article by Édouard MARET (Hunger can be overcome, according to Jean Ziegler), the title in English as it is now, was already posted. His last few books had not found a publisher or a translator into English, which I have guessed may be due to titles like ‘The Empire of Shame’ and ‘Hatred of the West’, concepts hard to face in the western world. Those two, and others, are magnificent books that give us the inside view of what is going on in the world with more or less planned and calculated starvation of the poor and the takeover of the entire world by the Corporate giants). Continuer la lecture de « World Food & Water: How Agribusiness Keeps Us "Betting on Famine" »