Mois : janvier 2016

Published on ZNet (first on red pepper.org), Jan 27, 2016.

What do you see as the main threats to democracy today?

• The threat to democracy has always been the disdain the establishment has for it. Democracy by its nature is very fragile and the antipathy towards it by the establishment is always extremely pronounced, and the establishment has always sought to undo it.   Continuer la lecture de « We need a new movement for democracy in Europe »

… rightists’ election victory poses major threat to Venezuela’s advances – Published 0n The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1211, by Richard Fidler, Jan 25, 2016.

Seventeen years after Hugo Chávez was elected Venezuela’s President for the first time, the supporters of his Bolivarian Revolution, now led by President Nicolás Maduro, suffered their first major defeat in a national election in the December 6 elections to the country’s parliament, the National Assembly … // Continuer la lecture de « Can People's Power Save the Bolivarian Revolution? »

• We Can’t Address the EU Refugee Crisis Without Confronting Global Capitalism – Slavoj Zizek, on IN THESE TIMES, by SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK, Sept 9, 2015;
• Environment, Identity and Multiculturalism – discussion with Slavoj Zizek, 40.13 min, uploaded by Science and Scolastic, July 24, 2015;
• What does it mean to be a great thinker today – Slavoj Zizek, 111.54 min, uploaded by IWM Vienna, May 6, 2015 … Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen / Institute for Human Sciences;
• an excerpt of above: Continuer la lecture de « Slavoj Žižek and the Balkans »

Published on Real World Economic Review Blog RWER, by Norbert Häring, Jan 22, 2016.

A central bank governor in Athens conspires with the President of the Republic to sabotage the negotiation strategy of his government to weaken it in its negotiations with the European Central Bank. After the government has capitulated, this governor, who is a close friend of the new finance minister and boss of the finance ministers wife, and the President of the Republic travel together to the ECB to collect their praise and rewards. This is not an invention, this is now documented. Continuer la lecture de « A Greek conspiracy: How the ECB crushed Varoufakis’ plans »

Published on Spiegel Online International, conducted by Bernhard Zand, Jan 22, 2016: … (she) discusses the recent market crash, the end of China’s building boom and why she views Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as a role model for the wealthy … //

… SPIEGEL: In comparison, how did things start out for you?

• Zhang: When we started out, we were among the first. Beijing had no and Shanghai had very few large buildings. At that time, it was all about building, building, building — and then selling, selling, selling. We were working like a manufacturer. Soon, however, we realized that land was running out in Beijing and Shanghai. So we started keeping our buildings, and managing and renting them out. We became landowners. That was the second act.   Continuer la lecture de « Chinese Billionaire Zhang Xin: The Old Model Doesn't Work Anymore »