Auteur/autrice : Heidi Barathieu-Brun

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Erich Follath, April 3, 2015 (Photo Gallery).

People in the West tend to have a monolithic view of Iran. But there’s a lot more to the country than the mullah-led theocracy, and it often gets ignored. And national pride is alive and well … // Continuer la lecture de « The Persian Paradox – Iran is much more modern than you think »

Published on Intrepid Report, by Nafeez Ahmed, April 3, 2015.

Debate about the origins of the Islamic State (IS) has largely oscillated between two extreme perspectives. One blames the West. IS is nothing more than a predictable reaction to the occupation of Iraq, yet another result of Western foreign policy blowback. The other attributes IS’s emergence purely to the historic or cultural barbarism of the Muslim world, whose backward medieval beliefs and values are a natural incubator for such violent extremism … //

… Follow the money:   Continuer la lecture de « Islamic State is the cancer of modern capitalism »

Published on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, April 3, 2015 … Updated later, April 3.

Greece has decided to up the ante in its negotiations with the Troika. The open question is whether the latest move, the press leak via Ambrose Evans-Pritchard at the Telegraph that Greece will miss its April 9 payment to the IMF so that it can continue to make pension payments, and has started to make plans to issue the drachma, are game-changers that Greece hopes they will be.   Continuer la lecture de « Greece Threatens to Miss IMF Payment, Issue Drachma »

Published on Basic Income Earth Network BIEN, by Stanislas Jourdan, March 27, 2015.

A letter published today in the Financial Times signed by 19 economists, including BIEN co-founder Guy Standing, calls on the European Central Bank to adopt an alternative quantitative easing policy. The letter includes a call to distribute cash directly to citizens of the eurozone.   Continuer la lecture de « EUROPE: 19 economists call on the ECB to make ‘QE for the people’ in a letter to the Financial Times »

Auf Anderwelt Online, von Peter Haisenko, 27. März 2015.

Es schockiert mich, mit welcher Leichtigkeit ein junger Mann zum Massenmörder erklärt wird. Wie kann ein französischer Staatsanwalt, der bislang nur über Teilinformationen verfügt, einen unbescholtenen Menschen unter Preisgabe seines Namens öffentlich des Massenmordes bezichtigen? Wie kann er damit dessen Familie den Medien zum Fraß vorwerfen? Die Erklärungen dieses Staatsbeamten zeigen vor allem eines: Gesichertes Wissen gibt es noch nicht, dafür aber noch jede Menge ungeklärte Fragen.   Continuer la lecture de « German Wings Absturz – mehr Besonnenheit bitte »

Published on Tom Dispatch, by Dilip Hiro, March 31, 2015.

In June 2014, as he was preparing to send 300 U.S. military advisers back to Iraq, President Obama hailed the American counterterror campaign in Yemen — Special Operations advisers (and CIA operatives) on the ground, drones in the air — as a “model” for what he hoped to do against the Islamic State. In September, as Craig Whitlock of the Washington Post wrote, President Obama “cited his Yemen strategy as a template for confronting jihadist threats in other places, including Iraq and Syria.” He was still making reference to its “success” this January when discussing what had become Iraq War 3.0.   Continuer la lecture de « Afghanistan's China Card »

• Assez de mensonges sur le crash de l’Airbus A320, dans Réseau International, le 28 mars 2015: Si le copilote de l’A320 ne s’est pas suicidé, toute la narrative officielle tombe à l’eau …;
• Crash NOT Credible Accident or Suicide, on Veterans Today, by Gordon Duff, March 26, 2015;
• again – US Laser Test Destroys Germanwings Airliner Killing 150 Innocent Civilians, on EU Times, by blog owner, March 25, 2015.

(my comment: ok, immagine the protest waves going through Europe, if it is officially admitted that the US military is playing jokes over our air-space, instead over an international water … not to speak over their own territory … yes, what these bluddy americans have to play ouver our European Air Space!? – Heidi).

Published on allAfrica, by Marxist Group, Windhoek, March 27, 2015;

PRESIDENT Hage Geingob has established new ministries, among them the Ministry of Industrialisation, Trade and SME Development, as well as the Ministry of Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare.

This is evidently in line with Vision 2030 objectives that envisage an advanced level of industrial growth in terms of wide-scale manufacturing, technological improvements and, in general, productive activities … // Continuer la lecture de « Namibia: Industrialisation and Women's Liberation »

related articles published during March 2015 … :     Continuer la lecture de « Basic Income BIG – Revenu de Base – Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen BGE, MARCH 1-31, 2015 »

• Reuters lied: MH17 witness says reporter falsified story, on Russia Todsay RT, March 30, 2015: A Lugansk region resident, whom Reuters cites as saying he saw evidence of a surface-to-air missile launched from rebel-held territory on the day MH17 was downed, told RT the news agency gave a false report of his interview.
• US Laser Test That Destroyed Germanwings, Next Plunges Holland Into Darkness, Posted on EU Times.net, by blog owner, March 29, 2015 (See:
  Major power outage throughout northern Holland (PHOTOS, VIDEO); and: High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS) Programme, United States of America; Continuer la lecture de « different concerns in our world »

Published on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, March 29, 2015.

An unusually move by a thin-skinned too big to fail bank, Citigroup, to slap down the finance-skeptic faction of the Democratic party appears to be backfiring … //

… Warren fingered Citigroup’s extensive connections to the Executive branch when she fought the addition of a rider to a must-pass spending bill that would eliminate a Dodd Frank provisions to force banks to stop trading certain derivatives in taxpayer-backstopped entities (the so-called swaps pushout rule). As you’ll see below, not only did Warren have the bad taste to point out that the current Treasury secretary is a Citigroup alum, and that Sandy Weill, Citigroup chairman, had offered Timothy Geithner the opportunity to run the bank, she also said that Dodd Frank had come up short by not forcing Citigroup’s breakup. If you’ve not seen this speech, you need to watch it. You’ll understand why Citigroup is desperate to find a way to leash and collar Warren.   Continuer la lecture de « Elizabeth Warren Strikes Back as Citigroup Tries to Blackmail the Democratic Party »

• Rebellunion #9 – Verschwörungstheorien 1, 16.27 min, von wwwKenFMde am 27. März 2015 hochgeladen: … Standardvorwurf gegenüber Aktivisten …;
• Wann startet Europa einen Neuanfang – Prof. Flassbeck, 45.58 min, von Nuklear Aussstieg jetzt am 11. Februar 2014 hochgeladen: … übereifernde Handelbilanz, Überschusspolitik, Soziale Marktwirtschaft …;
• Das Märchen vom Wirtschaftswunder – 2008, 43.31 min, von HomosapienFloraFauna am 21. Jan 2014 hochgeladen: Marshall-Plan, D-Mark, Marktwirtschaft, Ludwig Erhard;

Continuer la lecture de « … und noch dies … »

Published on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, March 27, 2015.

A substantial portion of the site’s commentariat has wanted to believe that the Greek government’s defiance of the will of the Troika has been effective, either in and of itself, or as a means of preparing the Greek public and buying time before a Grexit … // Continuer la lecture de « The Troika’s Leverage Over Greece: The Ongoing Bank Run »