Mois : juin 2016

… Interview with Elizabeth Rhodes – Published on The Ringer, by Kate Knibbs, June 16, 2016.

Y Combinator has been called the world’s most powerful startup incubator, but now it’s testing something completely different: investing in people’s lives, not their businesses. A few weeks ago, the startup incubator announced a pilot program on basic income in Oakland, California.   Continuer la lecture de « US, California: Can a Bay Area Startup Incubator Reinvent Income? »

Published on Counterpunch.org, by DANIEL RAVENTÓS and JULIE WARK, June 15, 2016.

… But there’s something missing in all the heat and light. The discussion ranges (and sometimes rages) around affordability, mechanisation of work, whether basic income would be a disincentive to work, streamlining antiquated welfare systems, ending poverty, the results of experiments in places as far afield as Manitoba, Alaska, India, Namibia, Kenya, Uganda and among the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation. Continuer la lecture de « Basic Income: the Silence in the Noise »

… and It Will Haunt the Economy for Years – Wolf Richter – Published on naked capitalism (first on Wolf Street),  June 16, 2016.

Richter’s post confirms what Matt Stoller foresaw in 2010 in A Debtcropper Society: a lot of people forget that having debt you can’t pay back really sucks. Debt is not just a credit instrument, it is an instrument of political and economic control … // Continuer la lecture de « These Debt Slaves are the Government’s Largest Asset Class »

Published on farmlandgrab.org, by Céclie Barbière, June 8, 2016.

MEPs have called on the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition NAFSN to radically alter its mission. The Alliance currently pushes African countries to replicate the intensive agricultural practices employed in many developed countries. EurActiv France reports … // Continuer la lecture de « European Parliament speaks out against agricultural colonialism in Africa »

Published on Global Research.ca (first on Natural News), by Julie Eilson, June 15, 2016.

Family of Autism Specialist Dr. Jeffrey Bradstreet Says Forensic Evidence Points to Murder, Impossible for Bullet Entry to Be Self-Inflicted … // Continuer la lecture de « Confirmed: Renowned Physician Jeff Bradstreet Who Linked Vaccines to Autism Was Murdered »