Basic Income BI: Progressive Dreams Meet Neoliberal Realities

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1350, by John Clarke, Jan 2, 2017.

Up until now, the concept of Basic Income BI has enjoyed a greater history of being proposed than of being implemented. We may well be approaching a period, however, when this changes. The Ontario Government is holding consultations on setting up a BI pilot project. The Legislature in another Canadian Province, Prince Edward Island, has agreed to test out a version of BI. Pilot projects are also impending in Finland, the Netherlands and Scotland … // Continuer la lecture de « Basic Income BI: Progressive Dreams Meet Neoliberal Realities »

Split widens between Trump, CIA over Russian hacking allegations

Published on World Socialist Web Site WSWS.org, by Andre Damon, Jan 5, 2017.

Divisions within the US state over allegations of Russian hacking of Democratic Party emails grew more embittered and public Wednesday following statements by Donald Trump that further distanced the president-elect from the CIA and other US intelligence agencies.   Continuer la lecture de « Split widens between Trump, CIA over Russian hacking allegations »

Empathy: What Our Dysfunctional World Needs

Published on Dissident Voice, by Adnan Al-Daini, January 3, 2017.

Our species is capable of great compassion, kindness and tolerance; it is also capable of cruelty, selfishness and hate. Which of these characteristics dominate depends on another characteristic, namely empathy, defined as “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another”. This sharing of feeling could so easily be switched off if the “other” happens to have a different colour, religion or culture. Continuer la lecture de « Empathy: What Our Dysfunctional World Needs »

Organspende: Die verheimlichte Wahrheit

Organspende, die verheimlichte Wahrheit, 34.23 min,
……. von Welt im Wandel.TV am 29. Nov 2016 auf YouTube hochgeladen … Der bekannte Jurist Dr. Georg Meinecke ist entschieden anderer Meinung. Jahrzehntelang galt er als Deutschlands Patientenanwalt Nummer 1 und setzt sich seit seiner Pensionierung unter anderem dafür ein, dass über die wahren Hintergründe der Organspende aufgeklärt wird. Meinecke zufolge gebe es erhebliche Zweifel daran, ob der Hirntod tatsächlich das Lebensende eines Menschen markiert …(ganzer Text).