former title: Politics for the 99% – then under world-citizenship.org – encore en reconstruction
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.
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 »