Dirty Dancer: Sepp Blatter’s Corrupt Fiefdom Comes Crashing Down, on Spiegel Online International, by Rafael Buschmann, Lukas Eberle, Lothar Gorris, Maik Großekathöfer, Jörg Kramer, Guido Mingels, Matthias Schepp, Holger Stark and Michael Wulzinger, June 5, 2015 (Photo Gallery): With his top officials arrested for corruption, FIFA President Sepp Blatter finally recognized that it was time to go. Now, the global football body will have to reinvent itself. But is that even possible anymore. With his top officials arrested for corruption, FIFA President Sepp Blatter finally recognized that it was time to go. Now, the global football body will have to reinvent itself. But is that even possible anymore;
The Perpetual Punitive Machine Backfires, on Dissident Voice, by Ralph Nader, June 5, 2015: Our nation has a penchant for creating unnecessary complexity and obstacles for its people in areas such as the tax, health insurance and student debt miasmas. The prison industry adds to this with what it euphemistically calls “collateral consequences.” In simple language, this means a series of state-based statutory punishments – rooted in the medieval English practice of “civil death” – that greet ex-felons who have served their time and paid their debt to society
Power to the small farmer, on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Aziza Sami, June 4, 2014: A brave project is extending its activities to small farmers in Egypt’s embattled traditional agriculture sector …;
Egypt takes the lead on Syria, on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Salah Nasrawi, June 4, 2014; With Islamist rebels, including the Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front group, continuing their advance on government-controlled towns in Syria, Egypt is stepping up diplomatic efforts to help moderate opposition forces to work together for a political settlement to the four-year old civil war in the country …;
Alexis Tsipras: No to a two-speed Eurozone, with a reply from Stathis Kouvelakis, on Verso, by Miri Davidson, June 3, 2015;
