former title: Politics for the 99% – then under world-citizenship.org – encore en reconstruction
Published on Sunday Guardian Live, by COME CARPENTIER DE GOURDON, Feb 12, 2017.
Elites show single-minded dedication to the supposed demands of minorities even to the detriment of the majority. Continuer la lecture de « Left wing liberalism tries to rule by manufacturing consent »
Published on New Jersey nj, by Stephen Stirling, Jan 16, 2017.
Charlene O’Brien doesn’t want help. The 38-year-old single mother of two has built her life on being a strong, independent woman. Continuer la lecture de « US: 37 percent of people in N.J. are among the working poor – study »
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 »
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 »
… on women’s marches in Washington DC, San Francisco, worldwide – Published on Dissident Voice.org, by Barbara MacLean, Feb 7, 2017.
… I was struck by one thing. Whiteness. The marchers were predominantly white – even in places like Nairobi. Not only were they white, they looked like they were upper middle class – able to afford the finest warm clothes and designer outfits, down jackets, sporting iPhones to record themselves. Continuer la lecture de « No Pink Wooly Caps for Me »