Auteur/autrice : Heidi Barathieu-Brun

Published on Amnesty International, April 11, 2014;

Somali refugees and asylum-seekers living in Kenya are being trapped in a catch-22 situation by the government’s counter-terrorism crackdown, Amnesty International said as thousands of Somalis continued to be rounded up by security forces in Nairobi.

Registration of Somali refugees in Kenya has been largely halted since December 2011, preventing many who should qualify for refugee status from obtaining papers. Without these they could be returned to Somalia, where they may be at risk of human rights abuses.   Continuer la lecture de « Kenya: Somalis trapped in ‘catch-22’ amid crackdown on refugees »

Is the US or the World Coming to an End? It will be One or the Other – Published on Global Research.ca, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, April 10, 2014.

2014 is shaping up as a year of reckoning for the United States.

Two pressures are building on the US dollar. One pressure comes from the Federal Reserve’s declining ability to rig the price of gold as Western gold supplies shrivel and market knowledge of the Fed’s illegal price rigging spreads.   Continuer la lecture de « War and the Demise of the US Dollar? »

Published on truthout, by Laura Flanders, April 9, 2014.

Video on GRITtv: Interview With Jessica Gordon Nembhard, 15.28 min, (also on YouTube, uploaded there by GRITtv, April 8, 2014).

Excerpt of Transcript:

… So, tell us some of the stories. Some of the documents in your book go all the way back to slavery times. Continuer la lecture de « Solidarity Economics, a Forgotten Practice of the Black Radical Tradition »

Published on Washington’s Blog, by blog owner, April 8, 2014.

… This is not the first false flag by NATO members. For example:

• The former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism. As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: “You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security” (and see this)(Italy and other European countries subject to the terror campaign had joined NATO before the bombings occurred). And watch this BBC special,    Continuer la lecture de « NATO Members Conduct False Flag Terror In Attempt to Whip Up War »

• Published on ahram online, by Dina Ezzat, April7, 2014.

Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi will officially become a presidential candidate this week, but speculation is already high regarding who will be among his presidential staff and what his policies will be … //

… Shades of grey: … //

… Human rights versus security:   Continuer la lecture de « Egypt: What vision for the future will El-Sisi bring? »

Published on Global Research.ca (first on Eco-Watch), by Global Research News, April 4, 2014.

Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) will introduce legislation this month backed by the Grocery Manufactures Association—including biotech giant Monsanto and Koch Industries—that would establish a voluntary labeling system for food made withgenetically modified organisms (GMO), according to an industry insider.

The bill includes a “prohibition against mandatory labeling,” according to The Hill, and is designed to head off the many state bills and ballot initiatives that would impose more stringent labeling regulations on GMOs … // Continuer la lecture de « Republicans Introduce Koch-Funded, Monsanto-Backed Bill to Establish Voluntary GMO Food Labeling »

Radicalise, reform or fragment: these are the options facing the Muslim Brotherhood – on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Dina Ezzat, April 3, 2014.

Most people expect that on 5 June that Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi will be inaugurated as Egypt’s new president. The recently resigned military chief officially announced his candidacy against a backdrop that includes — according to local and international human rights organisations — the detention of more than 20,000 Muslim Brotherhood members who face a raft of charges. Triple that number are thought to be on the run, either in Egypt or abroad.   Continuer la lecture de « Egypt: Uncertain futures »

von Kleinkunstpreis 2014 alle im März 2014 auf YouTube hochgeladen:

• HG. Butzko: Die wirklich Mächtigen sind die Banken, 10.01 min;
• Oliver Welke: heute show vom 28.3.2014, 35.54 min;
• Volker Pispers: Demokratie in USA, Ägypten, Ukraine und Russland, 4.40 min,
• Christian Ehring: extra3 vom 26. März 2014, 29.23 min;
• Lars Reichow: Spätschicht, die SWR Comedy Bühne, 21. März 2014, 43.14 min.

Links:   Continuer la lecture de « deutsche Polit-Comedy im März 2014 »

Published on Pambazuka News, by Hamza Hamouchene, April 3, 2014.

In the run up to Algeria’s presidential elections on 17 April, a tragic comedy unfolds in which presidential candidates contest against a rigid regime with false stability. The outcome of the election is predetermined; and the people will lose, no matter which candidate wins.

Algeria’s next presidential elections will be held on 17 April 2014 and for the last few months; this important electoral rendezvous showed all the hallmarks of a masquerade, consistent with almost all the elections in the history of the Algerian state since independence in 1962.   Continuer la lecture de « The Algerian presidential elections: The burlesque, the tragicomic and the farcical »

Published on Real-World Economics Review Blog, by Peter Radford, April 2, 2014.

… If we are to set up an institute to support change, provoke discussion, and otherwise meddle about with the established way of thinking, and thus to earn the moniker of “newness”, we ought not to pack our agendas with a steady stream of establishment figures. That is not the way to revolution. It might, however, be the way to raise esteem and thus get the institution media attention.

Newness in economics is devilishly hard to locate. This is due, possibly, to the continued warring amongst longstanding points of view that have neither been reconciled nor defeated. Indeed, from my perspective, it is practically impossible to kill off an economic idea once it has attached itself to an ideological flag.    Continuer la lecture de « Reformist Economics »

(two with english transcript … the rest in german):

uploaded on YouTube by ggwporg, March 2014:

• (written transcript in english and german): Leaked phonecall Timoshenko: « I’ll raise the whole world to reduce Russia », 2.21 min,  am 24. März 2014 hochgeladen: „Ich wäre bereit diesem Mistkerl (Putin) mit einem Maschinengewehr in den Kopf zu schießen. » „Wir müssen Waffen nehmen und diesen „Scheiss-Kazapen » (Russen) abknallen. » „Ich würde den Weg finden wie ich diese Arschlöcher platt machen würde ». (sie meint Krim). „Ich werde all meine Verbindungen nutzen und die ganze Welt gegen Rußland anstifften so dass von diesem Land nicht mal ausgebranntes Feld bleibt ». Auf die Frage was man mit 8 Millionen Russen machen soll die in der Ukraine leben, antwortet Timoschenko: „Wir sollen sie mit Atomwaffen vernichten » – (deutsch + english = for english click on the Transcript Icon):    Continuer la lecture de « March 2014: the Crimean crisis on YouTube – and some german-European voices »

Published on Intrepid Report, by Paul Craig Roberts, April 1, 2014.

… In the Genesis of the World War, Harry Elmer Barnes shows that World War 1 was the product of 4 or 5 people. Three stand out: Raymond Poincaré, president of France; Sergei Sazonov, Russian foreign minister; and Alexander Izvolski, Russian ambassador to France. Poincaré wanted Alsace-Lorraine from Germany, and the Russians wanted Istanbul and the Bosphorus Strait, which connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. They realized that their ambitions required a general European war and worked to produce the desired war.   Continuer la lecture de « Pushing toward the final war »

Published on Corriere della sera english, by Enrico Marro, Marzo 25, 2014 (English translation by Giles Watson).

Impeccably efficient and well worth a full bonus. Despite the best efforts of the then civil service minister Renato Brunetta, almost all public-sector managers in the top two pay bands managed to obtain assessments of more than 90% and pocket a full bonus. The Renzi government will now have to find a way to link earnings to results in its reform of public administration. But it will have to do more than that.   Continuer la lecture de « Italy: State Fat Cats’ Bonus Bonanza »

Published on World Socialist Web Site WSWS, by Christoph Dreiere, March 29, 2014.

A day after US President Barack Obama intensified NATO’s confrontation with Russia in Brussels, Germany’s second largest weekly newspaper, Die Zeit, has come out in favour of the reintroduction of compulsory military service.    Continuer la lecture de « German magazine Die Zeit calls for reintroduction of compulsory military service »