Auteur/autrice : Heidi Barathieu-Brun

Published on Spiegel Online International, by SUSANNE AMANN, FRANK DOHMEN, JÖRG KRAMER, PAUL MIDDELHOFF AND BARBARA SCHMID, April 30. 2014.

As Moscow continues to escalate the situation in Ukraine, public and political pressure is turning against German companies who do business with Russia. The countries’ economic ties make disengagement next to impossible.
Clemens Tönnies usually says what he thinks. When, on a February morning, he climbed into a private jet with his wife Margit to fly to the Olympic Games in Sochi, he described his views on Russia to a reporter with Sport Bild magazine: It has « bothered him, how negatively this country has been portrayed … // Continuer la lecture de « Little Love for Sanctions: Ukraine Crisis A Tightrope Walk for German Businesses »

Published on Axis of Logic, by Alex Park/Mother Jones, April 28, 2014.

(Editorial comment: The French title of Jean Ziegler’s latest book translates literally as ‘Mass Destruction – the Geopolitics of Hunger’. When I translated the article by Édouard MARET (Hunger can be overcome, according to Jean Ziegler), the title in English as it is now, was already posted. His last few books had not found a publisher or a translator into English, which I have guessed may be due to titles like ‘The Empire of Shame’ and ‘Hatred of the West’, concepts hard to face in the western world. Those two, and others, are magnificent books that give us the inside view of what is going on in the world with more or less planned and calculated starvation of the poor and the takeover of the entire world by the Corporate giants).   Continuer la lecture de « World Food & Water: How Agribusiness Keeps Us "Betting on Famine" »

Published on Russia Today RT, by Nadezhda Kevorkova, April 28, 2014:

The Americans never intended to help us build our country. Now Kabul is asking them not to leave Afghanistan so that the Taliban will not attack them,” a Pashtun from Kabul in his Moscow shop muses.
“Just imagine: we had 44 countries invading Afghanistan with modern weapons, satellite monitoring, tanks and missiles. The Taliban has an army of less than 20,000. We have 400,000 Afghan troops and 200,000 Americans with the most advanced weaponry. How is it possible that they can’t prevail over the Taliban?” he says. Continuer la lecture de « US came to Afghanistan with TV & cash – they won’t let us go »

Published on Global Research.ca, by Prof. John McMurtry, April 26, 2014.

• Yet Russia gets all the blame for “brute force” in reclaiming Crimea – although 96% of a voluntary turnout of 82% voted to rejoin its traditional mother country. While denounced as “violation of international law”, the Crimea referendum choice expresses the “self-determination” of a society guaranteed under Article 2 of the United Nations Charter. Ukraine’s coup government, in contrast, has prohibited any referendum on its rule – especially the Eastern regions where popular uprisings with no mass deaths or beatings (as in the Kiev coup) call for self-determination against illegal rule from Kiev.   Continuer la lecture de « “Global Society Destruction” and The Ukraine Crisis: Decoding its Deep Structural Meaning »

Watch this video, 13.09 min, uploaded by The Real News, April 26, 2014 … and more videos in autoplay.

Links:

28.4.2014 Updated Link: Football ultras clash with anti-govt protesters in eastern Ukraine, at least 14 injured (PHOTOS, VIDEO), on Russia Today RT, April 27, 2014;

India losing water war, on dna India, by R.N. Bhaskar and S. Balakrishnan, April 27, 2014;

Hot statistics: Spanish exodus, Polish government finance ‘miracle’, more deflation in Ireland, Greek trade, on RWER, by merijnknibbe, April 26, 2014.