Mois : février 2015

… Goldman Sachs, School Districts, and Capital Appreciation Bonds – Published on Dissident Voice, by Ellen Hodgson Brown, Feb 21, 2015.

… Remember when Goldman Sachs, dubbed by Matt Taibbi “The Vampire Squid”, sold derivatives to Greece so the government could conceal its debt, then bet against that debt, driving it up? It seems that the ubiquitous investment bank has also put the squeeze on California and its school districts. Not that Goldman was alone in this; but the unscrupulous practices of the bank once called the undisputed king of the municipal bond business epitomize the culture of greed that has ensnared students and future generations in unrepayable debt.   Continuer la lecture de « Swimming with the Sharks »

• The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy, 57.26 min, uploaded by SkriptaTV, Feb 12, 2015 – his book/same title: on  Zed Books, London, 2013; on amazon; on Google Web-search … followed by other videos in autoplay;
• Yanis Varoufakis on February 5, 2015, 9.58 min, uploaded by Podemos ecoLogicos, Feb 10, 2015;
• All the good stuff that cannot be measured, 19.59 min, uploaded by SkriptaTV, Feb 7, 2015 (first on Democratic Underground);
• Chinese credit speculation, the Greek debt crisis and US earnings woes, 27.46 min, uploaded by Boom Bust, Jan 28, 2015;
• Who is Yanis Varoufakis? 2.10 min, uploaded by CNNMoney, Jan 28, 2015;   Continuer la lecture de « Videos with Yanis Varoufakis »

• A Very Dark Chapter of Globalization, Part 3/3, Flassbeck, 13.07 min, uploaded on YouTube by TheRealNews, Feb 6, 2015
• Why you can not have a Capitalist Democracy – Noam Chomsky, 17.46 min, uploaded by Leigha Cohen, Oct 5, 2014;
• Peter Phillips: Project Censored and the Transnational Corporate Class, 69.00 min, uploaded by freespeechtv, Oct 3, 2014;
• Until the Rulers Obey – Learning from Latin America’s Social Movements, on Covering Activism an Politics in Latin America (Upside Down World.org) by Clifton Ross and Marcy Rein, Sept 24, 2014: An excerpt from the introduction to Until the Rulers Obey: Voices of from Latin American Social Movements, edited by Clifton Ross and Marcy Rein /Oakland: PM Press, 2014;   Continuer la lecture de « Transnational Capitalist Class TCC – and related articles »

Published on ZNet (first on Counterpunch), by Mark Weisbrot, Feb 20, 2015.

The Economist’s February 6 cover displayed the Venus de Milo statue pointing a revolver, with the headline “Go ahead, Angela, make my day.” In the editors’ upside-down world, Greece is threatening Europe, or at least Germany. Really? Continuer la lecture de « The Coercion of Greece »

Published on Intrepid Report, by Dave Alpert, Feb 19, 2015.

I was born a Jew and grew up in The Bronx in New York City. At the age of 13, I was Bar Mitzvad. As I grew older, I became more and more disenchanted with religion as an institution. I became aware of the historical role religion played in the life and destiny of man, a history which demonstrates wars, deaths, and destruction all in the name of God. Continuer la lecture de « Speaking out on religion, salvation or destruction »