Auteur/autrice : Heidi Barathieu-Brun

• Jeremy Hammond Exposed State’s Plan to Criminalize Democratic Dissent, 10.52 min, with Chris Hedges on the Real News Network TRNN, by Paul Jay, November 14, 2013:  on the sentencing of Jeremy Hammond, says there will be no free press without figures like Hammond and Manning;
• Christopher/Chris Hedges on YouTube-search, on en.wikipedia and on World People’s Blog.

• Let’s Build It Together! The Young Turks, 3.26 min, uploaded by The Young Turks TYT, Oct 7, 2013: Homepage;
• NSA – Anonymous, Enough, elite, You are FINISHED, 5.11 min, uploaded by Lea11011, June 25, 2013: to join us on a public IRC channel, go to: webchat.anonops.com channel: #opnsa;
• OpNSA: Anonymous Exposes NSA Supporters’ Financial Ties, 4.31 min, uploaded by The Young Turks TYT, Sept 12, 2013;
• Anonymous NSA on YouTube-search (all languages);
• Wolf-PAC.com;
• The Secret Life of a Superpower, uploaded by mmcetera, March 22, 2013: Ep. 1, 59.28 min, Ep. 2, 59.36 min.

Published on Intrepid Report, by Ellen Brown, J.D., Nov 15, 2013;

In Costa Rica, publicly-owned banks have been available for so long and work so well that people take for granted that any country that knows how to run an economy has a public banking option. Costa Ricans are amazed to hear there is only one public depository bank in the United States (the Bank of North Dakota), and few people have private access to it … //

… The dire effects of the IMF’s austerity measures were confirmed in a 1993 book excerpt by Karen Hansen-Kuhn, titled “Structural Adjustment in Costa Rica: Sapping the Economy.” She noted that Costa Rica stood out in Central America because of its near half-century history of stable democracy and well-functioning government, featuring the region’s largest middle class and the absence of both an army and a guerrilla movement.  Continuer la lecture de « Public banking in Costa Rica: A remarkable little known model »

Published on ZNet, by Robin Hahnel, November 13, 2013.

In the aftermath of the collapse of communism, debate about alternatives to capitalism has divided into three camps: advocates of market socialism, proponents of democratic planning, and supporters of community-based economics.[1] Few anti-capitalists—whether they favor market socialism, democratic planning, or community-based economics—deceive themselves that there is more than a tiny minority in any advanced economy who are ready to replace capitalism at this time. Continuer la lecture de « Eco-localism: A Constructive Critique »

Video on Veterans Day on Democracy Now News, from 42.20 min – 58.56, min, Full Interview with Ann Jones, by Amy Goodman, November 11, 2013:

U.S. Veterans Face Staggering Epidemic of Unemployment, Trauma & Suicide

(Book: They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America’s Wars – The Untold Story, by Ann Jones, on Haymarket Books: Ann Jones shines a much-needed light on the dead, wounded, mutilated, brain-damaged, drug-addicted, suicidal, homicidal casualties of our distant wars, taking us on a stunning journey from the devastating moment an American soldier is first wounded in rural Afghanistan to the return home. Beautifully written by an empathetic and critical reporter who knows the price of war).

Today marks Veterans Day, the federal holiday honoring U.S. men and women who have fought in the armed forces. Veterans continue to face extremely high levels of unemployment, traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress and homelessness.  Continuer la lecture de « The Untold Story of War »