former title: Politics for the 99% – then under world-citizenship.org – encore en reconstruction
Published on Dissident Voice (first on AlterNet), by Anna Simonton, October 18, 2013.
From the narrow windows of New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, 24-year-old anarchist Jerry Koch can see the last place he stood as a free person. Continuer la lecture de « How the FBI Manipulates Grand Juries to Intimidate Political Dissidents and Radicals »
Published on Spiegel Online International, an essay by Erich Follath, October 16, 2013.
China, India and Brazil are taking the global economy by storm, becoming more politically confident on their way. But even as they form a front against the West, they will have to tackle slower growth and major domestic problems that their newly prosperous citizens are no longer willing to tolerate … //
… Getting in on Western Commerce: Continuer la lecture de « Emerging Challenges: What's In Store for the New Global Powers, Part 1 »
Published on Russia Today, Oct 16, 2013.
Toiling in terrible conditions, no salaries for months, passports confiscated by employers – that’s the horrendous reality for migrant workers helping with preparations for the World Cup 2022 in Qatar, as revealed by German filmmaker, Peter Giesel.
He and his cameraman were detained and imprisoned after they tried to investigate the story. The two went to Qatar following the publication of a report in the Guardian, claiming that workers are enduring appalling labor abuses. Continuer la lecture de « German filmmaker imprisoned for exposing dire Qatar World Cup worker conditions »
Published on Xinhuanet News, by Liu Chang, Oct 13, 2013.
As U.S. politicians of both political parties are still shuffling back and forth between the White House and the Capitol Hill without striking a viable deal to bring normality to the body politic they brag about, it is perhaps a good time for the befuddled world to start considering building a de-Americanized world. Continuer la lecture de « Commentary: U.S. fiscal failure warrants a de-Americanized world »
as Washington stalls … join it and celebrate it – Published on ZNet (first on AlterNet), by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, October 14, 2013.
… In fact, change takes time and is not linear; it is not an ever-rising crescendo but in fact comes in stages. Lakey describes this as a “Living Revolution” and sees five stages: Continuer la lecture de « a new economy is growing under the radar of the corporate media »