former title: Politics for the 99% – then under world-citizenship.org – encore en reconstruction
Published on Dissident Voice, by James Petras, June 21, 2015: the Rise of the Non Leftist Left.
Over the past decade fundamental changes have taken place in Southern Europe, which have broken with previous political alignments, resulting in the virtual disappearance of traditional leftist parties, the decline of trade unions and the emergence of middle class radicalism … // Continuer la lecture de « Non-Leftist Left, a Radical Reconfiguration of Southern European Politics »
Published on Spiegel Online International, by Florian Gathmann, Matthias Gebauer, Christiane Hoffmann, Gordon Repinski, Matthias Schepp, Christoph Schult and Klaus Wiegrefe, June 19, 2015 (Photo Gallery).
Washington is once again talking about stationing nuclear warheads in Europe. Russia, too, is turning up the rhetoric. Europeans are concerned about becoming caught in the middle of a new Cold War … // Continuer la lecture de « Cold War Resurgent, US Nukes Could Soon Return to Europe »
UK: three in ten UK Bangladeshi households are overcrowded, on Left Foot Forward, by Ruby Stockham, June 20, 2015: Latest government figures show the impact soaring house prices are having on living conditions. New figures published today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that in 2011, home ownership fell for the first time in almost a century;
The ’joke of the decade’, on Kashmir and IDPs, by K.N. Pandita, June 20, 2015; Continuer la lecture de « today these concerns »
Published on Russia Today RT, June 19, 2015.
The sanctions imposed by the EU against Russia and Moscow’s retaliation would cost Europeans 100 billion euros in economic development and jeopardize up to 2.5 million jobs, a new study said. Continuer la lecture de « Anti-Russian sanctions hurt Europe harder than expected, threaten 2.5 Mio jobs – study »
Published on Dissident Voice, by Binoy Kampmark, June 16, 2015.
Idolatry is the natural consequence of abuse and disregard. Forget something, and revere it. Edification entails that no regard need be had to substance. When human rights conventions make it into the political argot, cited by the very individuals who are controlled by them, we know that a degree of amnesia and calculation has set in. They are the last ones who are interested in what those documents enshrine. Continuer la lecture de « The Magna Carta – eight hundred years of forgetting »