Mois : septembre 2016

Published on Project Syndicate.org, by Carmen Reinhart, Sept 28, 2016.

CAMBRIDGE – “What a government spends the public pays for. There is no such thing as an uncovered deficit.” So said John Maynard Keynes in A Tract on Monetary Reform. Continuer la lecture de « The Perils of Debt Complacency »

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No 1308, by Planka.nu, Sept 27, 2016: one is not born a motorist, one becomes one.

Mobility and class are deeply entangled. Not only because one’s potential for mobility often has to do with one’s economic position, but also because a society built on today’s mobility paradigm – automobility – directly contributes to growing economic and social differences.   Continuer la lecture de « The Traffic Hierarchy »

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Alexander Bühler, Susanne Koelbl, Sandro Mattioli and Walter Mayr, Sept 26, 2016 (Photo Gallery).

Since 2013, over 10,000 migrants have drowned while attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Europe. Behind the deaths lies a multi-million dollar smuggling trade with financial connections to Frankfurt, Italy and Libya … // Continuer la lecture de « Following the Money: On the Trail of African Migrant Smugglers – part 1 »

Published on teleSUR english, by Heather Gies, 25 Sept 2016.

• Vulnerable rural communities warn that the development model of Colombia’s new era of peace could spark a new exploitative land and resource grab.
• As Colombia’s government and main rebel group prepare to sign a historic rapproachment Monday, the question that remains following more than 5 decades of civil war is this: does peace necessarily bring progress … //

Continuer la lecture de « PEACE IN COLOMBIA: Afro-Colombians, Indigenous fear new Pitfalls in Peace Deal »

Published on Foreign Policy in Focus FPIF (first in The Nation), by Walden Bello, Sept 23, 2016.

American intervention was one factor leading to the Chilean coup—but unrest on the part of middle-class Chileans was another.   Continuer la lecture de « How Middle-Class Chileans Contributed to the Overthrow of Salvador Allende »

… a scary future for farmers around the world – Published on AlterNet.org, by Katherine Paul, Sept 23, 2016.

… Reactions poured in from all the usual suspects.

Groups like the Farmers Union, Food & Water Watch, Friends of the Earth and others didn’t mince words when it came to condemning the deal. (Organic Consumers Association tagged it a Marriage Made in Hellback in May, pre-announcement, when the two mega-corporations were still doing their mating dance). Continuer la lecture de « FOOD: A Five-Alarm Threat to Our Food Supply, Experts Describe Bayer-Monsanto Merger »

… Oliver Stone’s American History – Published on Middle East Eye MEE, by James Reinl, Sept 17, 2016;

… The Hollywood movie director has turned his cameras on the assassination of John F Kennedy, the Vietnam War and the 9/11 attacks … // Continuer la lecture de « We’re Not under Threat. We Are the Threat »

Published on WIRE.in, by VIJAY PRASHAD, Sept 20, 2016.

in Perilous Interventions, Hardeep Singh Puri, an astute observer of the limits of the ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine, explores the failure of the UNSC on several accounts, especially its decision to intervene in Libya militarily … // Continuer la lecture de « The Perils of Humanitarian Wars »

• Tulsa, Oklahoma police release videos of slaying of unarmed man, on World Socialist Web Site WSWS, by Zaida Green, Sept 21, 2016;
• Clashes, tear gas, cops injured after ‘disabled, unarmed’ black man shot dead by Charlotte police (VIDEOS), on RT, Sept 21, 2016;
• Wells Fargo boss urged to resign over accounts scandal, 1.56 min, on BBCnews, Sept 20, 2016; Continuer la lecture de « black life, accounts scandal, the FED's false economy »

• Who Really Rules The United States – Edward Snowden, 10.13 min, uploaded by Blow Your Mind, Sept 1, 2016;
• About Hillary Clinton Emails, Trump And Freedom – Edward Snowden, 16.54 min, uploaded by Insomnia Team2, Aug 27, 2016;
• CITIZENFOUR (Edward Snowden Documentary Film – 2014), 113.37 min, uploaded by KC Goldshine, Aug 26, 2016 … CITIZENFOUR is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving unprecedented access to Edward Snowden as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the NSA …;
• Citizenfour on YouTube-search;   Continuer la lecture de « Edward Snowden »

… Probably Not, Because Most of the Media Have Ignored It – Published on AlterNet, by Adam Johnson, Sept 18, 2016.

The prison strike didn’t merit a single mention in NYT, Washington Post, NPR, CNN or MSNBC.   Continuer la lecture de « MEDIA: Did You Know We Are Having the Largest Prison Strike (in US) in History? »

Published on SALVAGE, by George Souvlis, Aug 15, 2016.

There is no doubt that in 2008 the capitalist system in Europe and in United States suffered a severe shock from which (it) has not yet recovered. Suggestive indications of this “permanent crisis” are the draconian austerity packages that the economic elites implemented as a response to these developments triggering the dissolution of European Union, the collapse of democratic institutions, the impoverishment of the working people and emergence of far-right movements and parties throughout the European continent. Continuer la lecture de « Europe, Democracy and the Left – an interview with Geoff Eley »

uploaded on YouTube by Democracy at Work, September15, 2016:

• Global Capitalism, Labor Day, the Condition of the Working Class, 86.49 min;
• Economic Update, Worker coops vs capitalism, 54.46 min … updates on declining US incomes, parental leave policies, rising medical deductibles, social security dependence, officials who take big, corp jobs. Interview with Peter Ranis, author of Cooperatives Against Capitalism Cooperatives Confront Capitalism: Challenging the Neo-Liberal Economy;

Continuer la lecture de « Global Capitalism with Richard D. Wolff »

Published on Global Research.ca, by Colin Todhunter, Sept. 15, 2016.

… Monsanto held a 26 per cent market share of all seeds sold in 2011. Bayer (mainly a pharmaceuticals company) sells 17 per cent of the world’s total agrochemicals and also has a comparatively small seeds sector. If competition authorities pass the deal, the combined company would be the globe’s largest seller of both seeds and agrochemicals.   Continuer la lecture de « Monsanto and Bayer: Why Food And Agriculture Just Took A Turn For The Worse »