Auteur/autrice : Heidi Barathieu-Brun

Published on Political Affairs, by political action commission of the communist party USA, Feb 3, 2015.

• Ordinary Americans have had to battle for the right to vote from the very beginning. When the Constitution was adopted there was no explicit guarantee of the right to vote for anyone, including US citizens. In fact there was not even a definition of US citizen in the Constitution.

Continuer la lecture de « Save democracy: stop the attack on it and expand voting rights »

• Greece: The Problem with Playing Hardball, on Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.org, by Paul-Martin Foss, Feb 7, 2015;
• aus der Sicht des Mainstreams: Quo vadis Griechenland – Bericht aus Berlin am 1. Feb, 18.24 min, von ARD am 2. Feb 2015 hochgeladen;
• Podiumsdiskussion bei der Rosa-Luxemburg-Konferenz 2015, 63.51 min, von Junge Welt Ladengalerie, am 11. Januar 2015 hochgeladen;
• Das Finanzsystem von morgen – Andreas Popp & Prof. Franz Hörmann, 72.23 min, von Quer-Denken.TV am 28. Dezember 2014 auf YouTube hochgeladen: aus dem Querdenken Kongreß 2014 …;
• Wo kommt unser Gold bei den Amis her – Andreas Popp, 64.15 min, von MrSillyLine am 30. Dezember 2014 auf YouTube hochgeladen;   Continuer la lecture de « Geld – Gold – globale Gesellschaft »

Published on Toward Freedom (first on The New Internationalist), by Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Feb 4, 2015.

Our current democratic models are crumbling and outdated. We need to make something more real and meaningful … // Continuer la lecture de « Democracy in the Digital Era »

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Laura Höflinger, Feb 4, 2015, (Photo Gallery).

Annie Bus of the Netherlands suffered from horrendous pain and paralysis, but not from a terminal illness. She wanted to die anyway. The story of how she got her wish demonstrates how difficult it is to set boundaries in a country that permits assisted suicide.   Continuer la lecture de « The Last Days of Annie Bus: A Chronicle of Dutch Euthanasia »

Published on International Viewpoint, with Éric Toussaint, interviewed by Maud Bailly, Feb 3, 2015.

… How does this restructuring of the Greek debt compare with the Brady Plan that was implemented in countries of the South as a consequence of the 1982 debt crisis?   Continuer la lecture de « the lessons that can be drawn from the failure of the Greek 2012 restructuring »