Mois : février 2017

We Could Lose Two Hundred Million People [in a Nuclear War]

… and still have more than we had at the Time of the Civil War, the Air Force chief of staff told the Joint Chiefs at a September 1971 meeting. – Published on The National Security Archive NSA, Electronic Briefing Book No. 580, by William Burr, Feb 15, 2017.

  • Declassified Diary Excerpt and Other Records of Ex-JCS Chairman Moorer Detail Highest-Level Military Deliberations, Including with White House;
  • JCS Minutes, Once Thought Entirely Destroyed, Partially Preserved in Moorer Records at U.S. National Archives

… The record of the JCS meeting can be found in recently declassified diaries of Admiral Thomas Moorer, who served as JCS chairman during 1970 through 1974. During the late 1970s, the Chiefs destroyed their entire collection of minutes going back to 1947; apparently the only surviving JCS meeting records were those kept by Moorer. Continuer la lecture de « We Could Lose Two Hundred Million People [in a Nuclear War] »

South Africa and the Changing Possibilities for the Left

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1370 (first on Pambazuka News.org), by Leonard Gentle, Feb 16, 2017.

With the claims that a new trade union federation will be launched in March 2017, it is appropriate to draw up a balance sheet of the labour movement in South Africa, and ask whether the optimism of many that a new Left force is going to be unleashed is justified. Or whether the possibilities for a force of revolutionary working class politics lie elsewhere … // Continuer la lecture de « South Africa and the Changing Possibilities for the Left »

for our economic system – Plan B

… a systemic revolution for real transformation – Published in english on Wissensmanufaktur, 20 pages in pdf, by Andreas Popp and Rico Albrecht, November 2011.

Note about this English version: please appreciate that the majority of our work is carried out in an honorary capacity without remuneration. Questions will be read and responded to by us only in German language, should time allow us to do so. We have to delete on a regular basis unread emails due to the fact that we are being flooded with inquiries. We would ask you for your understanding. Many thanks for your efforts and thoughts. Continuer la lecture de « for our economic system – Plan B »

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Exposing the Myths of Neoliberal Capitalism: an Interview with Ha-Joon Chang

Published on Truthout, by C.J. Polychroniou, Feb 0, 2017.

For the part 40 years or so, neoliberalism has reigned supreme over much of the western capitalist world, producing unparalleled wealth accumulation levels for a handful of individuals and global corporations while the rest of society has been asked to swallow austerity, stagnating incomes and a shrinking welfare state. But just when we all thought that the contradictions of neoliberal capitalism had reached their penultimate point, culminating in mass discontent and opposition to global neoliberalism, the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election brought to power a megalomaniac individual who subscribes to neoliberal capitalist economics while opposing much of its global dimension. Continuer la lecture de « Exposing the Myths of Neoliberal Capitalism: an Interview with Ha-Joon Chang »

Black Snakes on the Move: U.S. Pipeline Expansion Out Of Control

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin no 1367, by Teressa Rose Ezell, Feb 9, 2017.

A Lakota prophecy tells of a mythic Black Snake that will move underground and bring destruction to the Earth. The “seventh sign” in Hopi prophecy involves the ocean turning black and bringing death to many sea-dwelling creatures. It doesn’t take an over-active imagination to make a connection between these images and oil pipelines and spills. Continuer la lecture de « Black Snakes on the Move: U.S. Pipeline Expansion Out Of Control »