Auteur/autrice : Heidi Barathieu-Brun

Published on Global Research.ca, by Julie Lévesque, Feb 25, 2015.

… Why is the media so keen on portraying Big Pharma critics as crazy, uneducated, unscientific and irresponsible people?

Dr Marcia Angell worked for over two decades as editor of The New England Journal of Medicine. She was fired after criticizing the pharmaceutical industry, which had exerted a n overriding and negative influence on the scientific literature. She said: “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published.”   Continuer la lecture de « 25 Facts About the Pharmaceutical Industry, Vaccines and “Anti-Vaxers” »

Published on Dissident Voice, by Wilhelm Langthaler, February 21, 2015.

… Sýriza is prisoners of its own past, its origins in the euro-communist Synaspismós. For them the European Union has been the greatest achievement of the post-war period. Only they would need to make it more socially inclined. They failed to understand that the very raison d’être of the EU is to destroy the welfare states which historically had grown within the nation states.   Continuer la lecture de « Tsípras: Scared by His Own Courage »

… Goldman Sachs, School Districts, and Capital Appreciation Bonds – Published on Dissident Voice, by Ellen Hodgson Brown, Feb 21, 2015.

… Remember when Goldman Sachs, dubbed by Matt Taibbi “The Vampire Squid”, sold derivatives to Greece so the government could conceal its debt, then bet against that debt, driving it up? It seems that the ubiquitous investment bank has also put the squeeze on California and its school districts. Not that Goldman was alone in this; but the unscrupulous practices of the bank once called the undisputed king of the municipal bond business epitomize the culture of greed that has ensnared students and future generations in unrepayable debt.   Continuer la lecture de « Swimming with the Sharks »

• The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy, 57.26 min, uploaded by SkriptaTV, Feb 12, 2015 – his book/same title: on  Zed Books, London, 2013; on amazon; on Google Web-search … followed by other videos in autoplay;
• Yanis Varoufakis on February 5, 2015, 9.58 min, uploaded by Podemos ecoLogicos, Feb 10, 2015;
• All the good stuff that cannot be measured, 19.59 min, uploaded by SkriptaTV, Feb 7, 2015 (first on Democratic Underground);
• Chinese credit speculation, the Greek debt crisis and US earnings woes, 27.46 min, uploaded by Boom Bust, Jan 28, 2015;
• Who is Yanis Varoufakis? 2.10 min, uploaded by CNNMoney, Jan 28, 2015;   Continuer la lecture de « Videos with Yanis Varoufakis »

• A Very Dark Chapter of Globalization, Part 3/3, Flassbeck, 13.07 min, uploaded on YouTube by TheRealNews, Feb 6, 2015
• Why you can not have a Capitalist Democracy – Noam Chomsky, 17.46 min, uploaded by Leigha Cohen, Oct 5, 2014;
• Peter Phillips: Project Censored and the Transnational Corporate Class, 69.00 min, uploaded by freespeechtv, Oct 3, 2014;
• Until the Rulers Obey – Learning from Latin America’s Social Movements, on Covering Activism an Politics in Latin America (Upside Down World.org) by Clifton Ross and Marcy Rein, Sept 24, 2014: An excerpt from the introduction to Until the Rulers Obey: Voices of from Latin American Social Movements, edited by Clifton Ross and Marcy Rein /Oakland: PM Press, 2014;   Continuer la lecture de « Transnational Capitalist Class TCC – and related articles »