Mois : mars 2016

• Broken Financial Bazookas: Unsettled Markets, the Fed, ECB, Bank of Japan, Central Banks have Lost Their Credibility, on Global Research.ca, by Bill Holter, March 12, 2016;
• VIDEO: Hillary Clinton est vendue à la finance – John R. MacArthur, dans l’Obs, par Aude Lancelin, le 12 mars 2016: à l’occasion de son passage à Paris, Aude Lancelin reçoit John R. MacArthur, patron du prestigieux mensuel “Harper’s”, le plus ancien magazine américain;
• The Wealth of Nations, Smith’s Basis for Modern Political Economy, on New Historian, by Daril Worthington, March 12, 2016;  Book: The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology), by Joseph A. Tainter, on amazon.co.uk; Webs: DownWithTyranny;
• The Goal of the Neo-Liberal Consensus Is to Manage the Decline – Gaius Publius, on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, March 11, 2016; America blog; /Gaius Publius;   Continuer la lecture de « Criticism of capitalism »

Published on ZNet, by Alon Ben-Meir, March 11, 2016.

Only a few months after Turkey’s President Erdogan raided the offices of the Koza Ipek Media Group, the Turkish police assaulted early this month the offices of Feza Publications, which owns two newspapers (including Zaman) and two TV stations, without any warning. There is little else more injurious to any democracy than closing down news outlets and choking off freedom of speech Continuer la lecture de « The Unraveling of Turkey’s Democracy »

Published on Greek Reporter, by A. Makris, March 9, 2016.

Syrian and Iraqi war refugees are sleeping by railroad tracks in northern Greece hoping to be allowed to travel onward to Germany and other northern EU countries. Seventy-three years ago, these tracks were traversed by another group heading to Germany for a completely different future: the Nazi death camps … // Continuer la lecture de « Refugees Caught in Tide of European History »

the Secret of Donald Trump’s Success, published on Social Europe (first on George Lakoff’s blog), March 7, 2016.

Donald Trump is winning Republican presidential primaries at such a great rate that he seems likely to become the next Republican presidential nominee and perhaps the next president. Democrats have little understanding of why he is winning — and winning handily, and even many Republicans don’t see him as a Republican and are trying to stop him, but don’t know how. There are various theories: People are angry and he speaks to their anger. People don’t think much of Congress and want a non-politician. Both may be true. But why? What are the details? And Why Trump?   Continuer la lecture de « George Lakoff's texts and videos »

Some latest articles:

• WikiLeaks Reveals EU Planned Military Action Against Libyan Refugees, on AlterNet, by Branko Marcetic, March 3, 2016: Operation Sophia aims to reduce flow of migrants, with force;
• Newly Translated WikiLeaks Saudi Cable – Overthrow the Syrian Regime, but Play Nice with Russia, on Global TResearch.ca (first on Levant Report), by Brad Hoff, Feb 27, 2016;   Continuer la lecture de « about wikileaks »