former title: Politics for the 99% – then under world-citizenship.org – encore en reconstruction
Published on News With Views, by Paul McGuire, June 13, 2016.
The world’s elite is at the annual Bilderberg Group meeting in Dresden, Germany. Among the top concerns of the annual gathering of world leaders, CEOs, super-billionaires, and other members of planet Earth’s ruling class are the precariat and the middle class. Continuer la lecture de « Precariat, Bilderberg, Microchip »
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Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1267, by Richard Greeman, June 13, 2016.
“We’ve had enough” is the phrase on everyone’s lips as – against all expectations – the wave of strikes, blockades, disruptions and mass demonstrations begun on May 17th continues to develop throughout France. Indeed, in the past couple of days, two new strategic groups of workers have joined the protest. Continuer la lecture de « The French Stand Up »
Published on Business Insider UK, by Will Martin, June 9, 2016.
… Earlier this week, the UK’s Labour party even said that it is closely looking at UBI as an idea, with shadow chancellor John McDonnell saying it might be an idea whose time has come. Continuer la lecture de « The biggest obstacle to universal basic income has nothing to do with money »
Published on truthout.org, by Gareth Porter, June 10, 2016.
In yet another a dangerous US political-diplomatic move in Syria, the Obama administration is going out of its way to protect the interests of al-Qaeda’s closest and most powerful ally in Syria, Ahrar al-Sham. Continuer la lecture de « Why the Obama Administration Is Favoring al-Qaeda's Main Syrian Ally – report »
Published on Dissident Voice, by Gary Leupp, June 9, 2016.
As the wizard Gandalf declared during the darkest hour: “There never was much hope… Just a fool’s hope.”
The narrow thread of hope now rests on the Justice Department investigation into Hillary Clinton’s illegal concealment of her emails from the State Department she headed from 2009 to 2012. If she’s hit by a true scandal between now and the Philadelphia convention in July, all bets could be off. Continuer la lecture de « Some Sober Lessons for Bernie Sanders Supporters »
… and Other Tales From Tuesday Night – Published on truthout, by William Rivers Pitt, June 8, 2016.
Thanks to The Associated Press, I was awake well past midnight on Wednesday morning watching a series of non-events come to a grateful conclusion. I wanted to see the speeches, especially Bernie’s, which came after 1:00 am; they were the one thing the « news » media couldn’t screw up. How did Tuesday’s primaries become non-events? Because The Associated Press on Monday night, straight out of the blue, declared Secretary Clinton to be the presumptive Democratic nominee for president. Continuer la lecture de « How the AP Screwed Sanders »
Published on DAWN, Pakistan, by Tahir Mehdi, June 7, 2016.
TWO things happened in Islamabad on the same day recently, one pertaining to the Council of Islamic Ideology CII (it’s website) – and the other to Pemra, the electronic media regulator. CII sanctioned ‘lightly beating’ of wives and Pemra banned (and then partially withdrew) advertisements of contraceptives. Continuer la lecture de « Reproductive violence »
my comment: … how witless must be a political elite to be overwhelmed by a Trump – how insipid must be their arguments to be outdated by a blustering outsider – how dumb must appear the Washington establishment to its people no more to be heard … and as Hillary is part of this nasty crowd we may imagine easily Trump as next President.
Published on Share the World Resources STWR, by Rajesh Makwana, June 3, 2016.
In light of the overwhelming moral imperative to share planetary resources more equitably and protect the lives of those facing humanitarian emergencies, the World Humanitarian Summit is yet another reminder of the huge gulf between government priorities and the desperate reality of the world situation … // Continuer la lecture de « No recognition of ‘One Humanity’ at the World Humanitarian Forum »
Result: the Unconditional Basic Income UBI – on SWI swissinfo.ch, June 5, 2016 – 17:18: rejected with 76.9% NO, only 23.1% can imagine in these times such a realization.
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Basic Income BIG – Revenu de Base Universel RBU – Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen BGE, special posts during 2015-2016 on this blog: Continuer la lecture de « Result of the Swiss Votation about BIG/RBU/BGE »
Published on Dissident Voice, by Gary Brumback, June 2, 2016.
I was prompted to write this article when a twitter contact of mine wondered whether some of my writings about the corpocracy amounted to a conspiracy theory. Having been a behavioral scientist most of my adult life I know a thing or two about what’s theory and what’s not. I don’t know how anyone, scientist or lay person, could mistake the corpocracy for a theory. Continuer la lecture de « America’s Corpocracy: Conspiracy Theory or Conspiracy Reality? »
Published on The Guardian, by Patrick Collison, June 1, 2016.
Attempts to convince the public they will be worse off if Britain leaves the EU are falling on deaf ears, according to an Ipsos Mori poll that shows two-thirds of the electorate don’t foresee any negative impact on their personal finances from Brexit. Continuer la lecture de « Brexit: two-thirds foresee no negative impact on their finances »
Published on truthout, by Dahr Jamail, May 31, 2016.
It’s not news that anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD) is accelerating at unprecedented rates, according to climate scientists. Fifteen of the 16 hottest years ever recorded have occurred since 2000, and this year is on track to be the hottest year ever recorded — by far … // Continuer la lecture de « Mangroves in Crisis: Why One Man Works to Save the Plants That Fight Climate Disruption »