former title: Politics for the 99% – then under world-citizenship.org – encore en reconstruction
Published on mint press news, by Sputnik News, Oct 3, 2016.
In light of a bill passed by the US Congress allowing families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia, Iraqis have asked their parliament to demand compensation for the US invasion of Iraq. Continuer la lecture de « Iraqis Use 9/11 Victims Bill To Demand Compensation From US For 2003 Invasion »
Published on Sirius Disclosure/Foundraising.
Video trailer: UNACKNOWLEDGED, an EXPOSÉ, 3.33 min … // Continuer la lecture de « The Campaign That Ends Illegal UFO & Free Energy Secrecy »
Published on Systemic Disorder, Sept 29, 2016.
You are working harder while not making more. It isn’t your imagination. The latest research demonstrating this comes, interestingly, from the St. Louis branch of the United States Federal Reserve. Continuer la lecture de « (US) Wages are so stagnant even the Federal Reserve has begun to notice (pardon, to confess) »
Published on Dissident Voice, by André Vltchek, Sept 30, 2016.
… For years and decades, the so-called ‘left’ in the West has been moderately critical of North American (and sometimes even of European) imperialism and neo-colonialism. But whenever some individual or country rose up and began openly challenging the Empire, most of the Western left-wing intellectuals simply closed their eyes, and refused to offer their full, unconditional support to those who were putting their lives (and often even the existence of their countries) on the line. Continuer la lecture de « Unreliability, Spinelessness of the Western “Left” »
Published on Axis of Logic (first on New Eastern Outlook NEO), by F. William Engdahl, Sept 26, 2016.
Washington’s regime change machinery has for the time being succeeded in removing an important link in the alliance of large emerging nations by railroading through a Senate impeachment of the duly elected President, Dilma Rousseff. On August 31 her Vice President Michel Temer was sworn in as President. Continuer la lecture de « Washington trying to break BRICS – the rape of Brazil has begun »
KenFM im Gespräch mit Franz Hörmann (September 2016), 68.39 min, von KenFM am 26. Sept. 2016 … abgerechnet wird zum Schluss. Continuer la lecture de « … abgerechnet wird zum Schluss »
… MEDIA – Presidential Debates – Published on AlterNet.org, by Elizabeth Preza, Sept 28, 2016.
For all the talk about the middle class Monday night, members of the non-elite were hard to find … // Continuer la lecture de « Where Millionaires Ask Other Millionaires What's Best for the Middle Class »
Published on Project Syndicate.org, by Carmen Reinhart, Sept 28, 2016.
CAMBRIDGE – “What a government spends the public pays for. There is no such thing as an uncovered deficit.” So said John Maynard Keynes in A Tract on Monetary Reform. Continuer la lecture de « The Perils of Debt Complacency »
Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No 1308, by Planka.nu, Sept 27, 2016: one is not born a motorist, one becomes one.
Mobility and class are deeply entangled. Not only because one’s potential for mobility often has to do with one’s economic position, but also because a society built on today’s mobility paradigm – automobility – directly contributes to growing economic and social differences. Continuer la lecture de « The Traffic Hierarchy »
Published on Spiegel Online International, by Alexander Bühler, Susanne Koelbl, Sandro Mattioli and Walter Mayr, Sept 26, 2016 (Photo Gallery).
Since 2013, over 10,000 migrants have drowned while attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Europe. Behind the deaths lies a multi-million dollar smuggling trade with financial connections to Frankfurt, Italy and Libya … // Continuer la lecture de « Following the Money: On the Trail of African Migrant Smugglers – part 1 »
Published on teleSUR english, by Heather Gies, 25 Sept 2016.
Published on Foreign Policy in Focus FPIF (first in The Nation), by Walden Bello, Sept 23, 2016.
American intervention was one factor leading to the Chilean coup—but unrest on the part of middle-class Chileans was another. Continuer la lecture de « How Middle-Class Chileans Contributed to the Overthrow of Salvador Allende »
… a scary future for farmers around the world – Published on AlterNet.org, by Katherine Paul, Sept 23, 2016.
… Reactions poured in from all the usual suspects.
Groups like the Farmers Union, Food & Water Watch, Friends of the Earth and others didn’t mince words when it came to condemning the deal. (Organic Consumers Association tagged it a Marriage Made in Hellback in May, pre-announcement, when the two mega-corporations were still doing their mating dance). Continuer la lecture de « FOOD: A Five-Alarm Threat to Our Food Supply, Experts Describe Bayer-Monsanto Merger »
… Oliver Stone’s American History – Published on Middle East Eye MEE, by James Reinl, Sept 17, 2016;
… The Hollywood movie director has turned his cameras on the assassination of John F Kennedy, the Vietnam War and the 9/11 attacks … // Continuer la lecture de « We’re Not under Threat. We Are the Threat »
Published on WIRE.in, by VIJAY PRASHAD, Sept 20, 2016.
in Perilous Interventions, Hardeep Singh Puri, an astute observer of the limits of the ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine, explores the failure of the UNSC on several accounts, especially its decision to intervene in Libya militarily … // Continuer la lecture de « The Perils of Humanitarian Wars »