former title: Politics for the 99% – then under world-citizenship.org – encore en reconstruction
Published on Dissident Voice, by subMedia *, April 9, 2016 [with VIDEO, 20.59 min].
This week we take a look at the multiple converging flashpoints of resistance in France, which have combined into a popular movement that has inspired over a million peeps to take to the streets in a massive expression of collective rage. Continuer la lecture de « Paris is Burning! »
Interview published on The New Politics TNP, by Jim Brash, April 7, 2016.
TNS: First question, why were you chosen to be Mimi Soltysik’s running mate? Continuer la lecture de « Q & A with Angela Walker, Socialist Party USA candidate for Vice-President »
Published on Dissident Voice, by Graham Vanbergen, April 7, 2016.
… Since the Conservative government got their knees under the table, George Osborne has systematically gone about creating what is effectively a territorial tax system for companies and organisations thus ensuring that no UK-based multinational pays taxation in the UK on profits arising to it from outside the country. Of course, the organisation itself has to deliberately go about structuring itself to achieve that goal, but once done, they are shielded from the deliberately lethargic tax office (HMRC) … // Continuer la lecture de « The Panama Papers Barely Scratches the Surface of UK Complicity in a Global Scandal »
Published on Socialist Worker.org, by Robert Reich, April 7, 2016.
What kind of change socialists should be fighting for? Danny Katch, author of Socialism… Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation, makes some proposals in his review of a book from a different part of the left: Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few, by former Labor Secretary and Bernie Sanders supporter Robert Reich … // Continuer la lecture de « Saving capitalism or getting rid of it? »
Published on RT, April 6, 2016.
Polls have opened on Wednesday in the Netherlands to see if the public wants to back an agreement to bring Ukraine closer to the EU. While many Dutch people support ordinary Ukrainians, a great number believe the proposed deal will not help them … // Continuer la lecture de « Won’t help ordinary Ukrainians, Dutch suspect EU/Kiev deal more for power players than people »
Relax and just listen on YouTube:
Published on ZNet (first on teleSTR english), by Jack Rasmus, April 2, 2016.
As U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has gained momentum in the presidential primaries, the attacks on his proposed economic programs have grown proportionally … // Continuer la lecture de « Neoliberal Economists: Against Bernie Sanders and Common Sense »
Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1241, by John Clarke, April 1, 2016.
… Looking Deeper Into the Gift Horse:
As soon as you start to look into the question of Basic Income or, as it was often called in the past, Guaranteed Annual Income (GAI), you are immediately struck by the ease and enthusiasm with which free market thinkers and warriors of the neoliberal order have embraced the concept. From Milton Friedman to Charles Murray, the idea has found warm support on the political right. There are some clear and obvious reasons why this is so. Firstly, the very idea of a basic level of income is about establishing a floor and right wing proponents are confident they can locate it in the basement. A low and inadequate social minimum seems to them a great way of folding in existing, relatively adequate programs so as to, precisely, drive people into deeper poverty. Continuer la lecture de « Looking the Basic Income Gift Horse in the Mouth »
Published on Spiegel Online International, by Anna Behrend, April 2, 2016.
A kilogram of new potatoes this week costs just €1.29 in some German supermarkets. But is that the whole story? Not by a long shot. Environmental costs are almost always completely ignored. Some, though, are trying to change that … // Continuer la lecture de « Natural Capital: What Is the True Cost of Food? »
Published on Down with Tyranny *, by Gaius Publius, March 29, 2016.
… The Sanders- and Trump-led (for now) political rebellion is not going to go away. There are only two questions going forward: