Mois : novembre 2015

Published on International Business Times IBS, by Mark Piggott, Nov 26, 2015.

A former senior risk consultant at scandal-hit Royal Bank of Scotland RBS is reported to be planning to make a number of explosive allegations about deception and greed within the bank’s upper echelons, even as the 2008 financial crisis was underway. Victor Hong, based in the US, is set to appear in court in the UK as part of a major action being taken against the bank by its own shareholders. Continuer la lecture de « RBS: Whistleblower claims bank hid scale of losses prior to banking crisis to protect banker's bonuses »

Published on Dissident Voice, by Paul Craig Roberts, Nov 24, 2015.

… Turkey’s unprovoked shoot-down of a Russian military aircraft over Syria raises interesting questions. It seems unlikely that the Turkish government would commit an act of war against a much more powerful neighbor unless Washington had cleared the attack. Turkey’s government is not very competent, but even the incompetent know better than to put themselves into a position of facing Russia alone. Continuer la lecture de « Turkey Has Destroyed Russia’s Hope of Western Cooperation »

Published on ZNet, by Cal Winslow, Nov 24, 2015.

The therapists, counselors, and social workers at Kaiser Permanente in California have won a magnificent victory. In a last minute retreat, in the face of an open-ended strike, Kaiser, the giant California health care corporation, settled with 1400 workers and their union, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW).   Continuer la lecture de « When Workers Fight »

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1188, by Panagiotis Sotiris, Nov 23, 2015.

• In a certain way, I feel a certain unease since the entire Greek Left has some form of responsibility for the fact that Greece is not currently a laboratory of hope; rather it is a reason for despair. What I am going to say should be taken as a form of self-criticism rather than a declaration. I consider myself part of the problem.   Continuer la lecture de « The Realism of Audacity – Rethinking Revolutionary Strategy Today »

… and No One Has Food – Published on Vice News, by Samuel Oakford, Nov 19, 2015.

Yemen’s humanitarian and human rights catastrophe continues to worsen, according to new UN figures which put the number of killed since late March at more than 5,700. Continuer la lecture de « Unreported Crimes against Humanity – more than 800 Women and Children have died in Yemen »