Auteur/autrice : Heidi Barathieu-Brun

Published on Spiegel Online International, a commentary by Markus Feldenkirchen, Oct 20, 2015.

The World Cup scandal brought to light by SPIEGEL serves as a reminder that Germany is nowhere near as perfect as it had started to look – ironically, around the time of that historic « fairytale summer » … //

… With its social market economy, Germany also appeared to have defied the law of capitalism that requires one to be a little coarse and unscrupulous in order to prevail. Continuer la lecture de « Nice No More: The End of the German Fairytale »

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1175, by Sungur Savran, Oct 19, 2015.

The immense catastrophe that struck Turkey in the streets of Ankara, the capital city, on 10 October, when two bombs exploded in the midst of a thronging crowd of what would possibly turn out to be hundreds of thousands of people, leading to the death of an indefinite number of people, in any case exceeding one hundred, and the wounding of hundreds, some still under the risk of death, is a sharp reminder, if any were needed, that this is a country undergoing a severe political crisis … // Continuer la lecture de « The Syrianization of Turkey »

Published on Global Research.ca, Oct 20, 2015.
(See also Arrest Records).

The following infographic shows us how profitable the US prison industry is. “Between 1980 and 1994, profits went up from $392 million to $1.31 billion” dollars. As reported in The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?, inmates, mostly Blacks and Hispanics, are also being exploited by various industries: Continuer la lecture de « Privatization of the US Prison System »

REPORT from Human Rights Watch HRW – Published on relief web.int, by Lydia Gall, Oct 20, 2015.

We are stuck between two borders. We can’t enter Slovenia and we are not allowed to go back into Croatia. Everyone says we are someone else’s responsibility.”

25-year-old Hadi from Syria was shivering as we spoke. He said he had been stuck for nearly 20 hours, exposed to rain and cold in the no-man’s land between the Croatian and Slovenian borders. I met him there last night, together with hundreds of other migrants and asylum seekers, including many women and children, who were brought from Croatia’s Tavornik camp at about 1 a.m. the morning before.   Continuer la lecture de « Dispatches: EU Border Closures Leave Asylum Seekers Stranded »

Medication rates high for ADHD sufferers – Published on JMU (Liverpool UK), by Amy Cole, Oct 19, 2015.

Medication for Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder [ADHD] is being heavily prescribed across Merseyside, with statistics showing Wirral ranking second highest in the country … //

… Dr Tony Lloyd from the Liverpool-based ADHD Foundation says that medication isn’t always the best option and can cause reliance on a pill for a chronic condition.
He told JMU Journalism: “Sadly, in most parts of the country, medication is the first and only line of treatment.”
Blame is quick to fall on doctors for overprescribing and not offering alternative treatments and therapies … // Continuer la lecture de « ADHD – alternative treatments to medication »

Published Croatia, the War and the Future, by Ina Vukic, Oct 18, 2015.

More than 190,000 refugees and migrants have crossed into Croatia over the past month and assisted to cross over Hungary to richer European countries (383,000 have crossed Hungary so far this year). At midnight Friday 16 October Hungary sealed its border with Croatia and, hence, refugees making their way to Hungary from Croatia can no longer contemplate that route. Continuer la lecture de « Migrant Crisis In Croatia Widens Political Rift – Plans For Coup d’état Suspected »

Published on Middle East Eye MEE, Oct 17, 2015.

British resident Shaker Aamer has been imprisoned without charge by US authorities since 2001.

A senior UK politician will be taking part in a hunger strike to show support for the last British resident held at the US run Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba.   Continuer la lecture de « Shaker Aamer's case represents skewed US-UK relationship, says Conservative MP »

Interview with integration specialist Naika Foroutan – Published on Spiegel Online International, by Frank Hornig and Maximilian Popp, Okt 14, 2015: Doubt has lately begun creeping into the German refugee debate, but integration specialist Naika Foroutan says that the new Germany has sent its message loudly and clearly: We can absorb the refugees … //

… SPIEGEL: Will competition for jobs increase?   Continuer la lecture de « Germany's Refugee Challenge: It's Mostly the Politicians Who Have Been Overwhelmed »

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Christoph Scheuermann, Oct 15, 2015:

They drink heavily, shatter champagne flutes and smash furniture — before moving on to positions of leadership. The elite Bullingdon Club is an exclusive haven for Britain’s rich and powerful. But members don’t like to talk about it.   Continuer la lecture de « Decadence and Madness at the Top: Inside Britain's Secretive Bullingdon Club »

Published on Abel Danger, by Paul Craig Roberts, Oct 11, 2015.

« Information Clearing House » – The world is beginning to realize that a sea change in world affairs occurred on September 28 when President Putin of Russia stated in his UN speech that Russia can no longer tolerate Washington’s vicious, stupid, and failed policies that have unleashed chaos which is engulfing the Middle East and now Europe. Two days later, Russia took over the military situation in Syria and began the destruction of the Islamic State forces … // Continuer la lecture de « A Decisive Shift in the Power Balance Has Occurred »

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US: The lead investigative reporter in the case of 11 holistic doctors that have died mysteriously within the last 90 days:
Mysterious Death of Holistic Doctors Uncovered, 7.54 min, uploaded by WeAreChange, Oct 9, 2015 … in this video Luke Rudkowski interviews Erin Elizabeth of health nut news;   Continuer la lecture de « US: more and more deaths of holistic doctors M.D. »

Published on Deal Street Asia, by Shiwen Yap, Oct 12, 2015.

With its fragmented economies, diverse language and geographies, as well as differing developmental status, the Asia Pacific (APAC) region is often seen as a challenging regional economy for businesses to operate in. Another major issue is the wealth inequality seen across the region, especially in major economies like India, the Philippines and Indonesia.   Continuer la lecture de « Could basic income solve APAC wealth inequality? »

Published on counterpunch, by Jeremy Malcolm, Oct 13, 2015.

… Since we now have the agreed text, we’ll be including some paragraph references that you can cross-reference for yourself – but be aware that some of them contain placeholders like ‘x’ that may change in the cleaned-up text.

Also, our analysis here is limited to the copyright and Internet-related provisions of the chapter, but analyses of the impacts of other parts of the chapter have been published by Wikileaks and others. Continuer la lecture de « All Rights Reserved: Now We Know the Final TTP is Everything We Feared »

Published on Social Europe.eu, by Joseph Stiglitz and Adam Hersh, Oct 5, 2015.

As negotiators and ministers from the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries meet in Atlanta in an effort to finalize the details of the sweeping new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), some sober analysis is warranted. The biggest regional trade and investment agreement in history is not what it seems.

You will hear much about the importance of the TPP for “free trade.” The reality is that this is an agreement to manage its members’ trade and investment relations – and to do so on behalf of each country’s most powerful business lobbies. Make no mistake: It is evident from the main outstanding issues, over which negotiators are still haggling, that the TPP is not about “free” trade.   Continuer la lecture de « The Trans-Pacific Free-Trade Charade »