former title: Politics for the 99% – then under world-citizenship.org – encore en reconstruction
Published on Spiegel Online International, by Peter Müller in Brussels, April 25, 2016.
The European Commission (its President Jean-Claude Juncker) had hoped not to provide fresh anti-EU ammunition to pro-Brexit voters ahead of Britain’s upcoming referendum. But SPIEGEL has learned that Brussels is planning to launch legal proceedings against the UK over its truck toll. Continuer la lecture de « Ahead of Brexit Vote: EU Commission To Challenge UK Truck Toll »
… how much of the electoral process is illusory? – Published on truthout, by Candice Bernd, April 24, 2016.
The parallel Democracy Spring and Democracy Awakening mobilizations wrapped their week of sit-ins protesting the corrosive influence of money in politics and voter suppression at the US Capitol on Monday, tallying more than 1,400 arrests. Continuer la lecture de « Democracy Spring and the US Voting Matrix – report »
… even if 90% of people smoked weed instead of working – Published on Tech Insider, by Chris Weller, April 19, 2016.
The chief complaint people lodge at universal basic income — a form of income distribution that gives people money to cover basic needs regardless of whether they work or not — is that it’ll make them lazy.
Sam Altman doesn’t buy it. Continuer la lecture de « A Silicon Valley entrepreneur says basic income would work »
Published on Counterpunch, by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, April 22, 2016.
Have you noticed that it is not only the presstitute media and the two establishment political parties that are beating up on Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump but also the progressive left. Continuer la lecture de « Why is the Progressive Left Helping the Elite Elect Hillary? »
Published on Political Violence @ a Glance, by Tijen Demirel-Pegg, April 20, 2016.
The killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York – and the subsequent failure to indict the police officers that killed them in 2014 – generated massive outrage across the United States. While large-scale protests were held in a number of cities, leaving pundits to wonder if Black Lives Matter was turning into a new civil rights movement, an unexpected event happened: two police officers were shot to death in New York on December 20, 2014, by a man who was allegedly outraged by the Brown and Garner cases. Continuer la lecture de « Communal Violence and the Demobilization of Protest Campaigns »