Auteur/autrice : Heidi Barathieu-Brun

Published on Russia Today RT, Dec 6, 2013.

The World Trade Organization has formally approved a historic package of agreements after over a decade of negotiations. Trade talks among 159 world economies came to an end after Cuba dropped its objections to the draft agreement.

« For the first time in our history, the WTO has truly delivered, » WTO chief Roberto Azevedo said. « This time the entire membership came together. We have put the ‘world’ back in World Trade Organization. »   Continuer la lecture de « World Trade Organization WTO salvages historic $1 trillion trade deal »

The government is insisting on enforcing the controversial protest law despite wide opposition – Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Ahmed Morsy, Dec 4, 2013.

Over the past 10 days, the recently endorsed protest law has been met with strong opposition from various political parties, public figures, political and legal activists and human-rights organisations.

Protests have been staged on a daily basis in clear defiance of the law and in order to object to the arrests of anti-law activists and politicians. The 6 April activist movement has called for a week of protests starting on 30 November. The Friday Muslim Brotherhood demonstrations were staged with acts of violence recorded and with dozens arrested.   Continuer la lecture de « Egypt: Protesting the protest law »

in german – Gregor Gysi: Eröffnungskeynote Bundeskongress Compliance Management BCM, 43.04 min, von BCM Kongress am 26. November 2013 auf YouTube hochgeladen;

Schockierende Rede von Sahra Wagenknecht: die Linke Über den Umgang mit unserem Geld, 12.34 min,  von elton rabbel am 24. November 2013 auf YouTube hochgeladen.

Uploaded on YouTube by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung:

• Younas Alam Chowdhry: Socialism and Culture, 29.54 min, uploaded Nov 18, 2013: Left wing cultural activism in Pakistan, a presentation by Younas Alam Chowdhry;
• in german: Euros letzte Chance? Expertengespräch, 65.09 min, am 4. Dezember 2013 hochgeladen: Start der Eduard-Heimann-Colloquiums-Reihe 2013/14 «Europa am Scheideweg».   Continuer la lecture de « leftists at work »

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Martin Hesse and Anne Seith, December 03, 2013.

Central banks around the world are pumping trillions into the economy. The goal is to stimulate growth, but their actions are also driving up prices in the real estate and equities markets. The question is no longer whether there will be a crash, but when … //

… It Might Go Badly: … //

… A Hunger for German Stocks: Continuer la lecture de « Feeding the Bubble: Is the Next Crash Brewing? Part 1 »

Published on truthout, by Henry A Giroux, Dec 2, 2013.

In the current historical moment, the line between fate and destiny is difficult to draw. Dominant power works relentlessly through its major cultural apparatuses to hide, mischaracterize or lampoon resistance, dissent and critically engaged social movements. This is done, in part, by sanitizing public memory and erasing critical knowledge and oppositional struggles from newspapers, radio, television, film and all those cultural institutions that engage in systemic forms of education and memory work.  Continuer la lecture de « Hope in the Age of Looming Authoritarianism »

Free Energy, ET’s and Freeing Humanity from the NWO, 82.33 min, (with Steven Greer), uploaded by Revolutionize TV,  July 5, 2013: Steven M. Greer, MD is Founder of The Disclosure Project, The Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) and The Orion Project.
He is the author of four books and multiple DVDs on the UFO/ET subject. He teaches groups throughout the world how to make peaceful contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, and continues to research bringing truly alternative energy sources out to the public.  Continuer la lecture de « The Sirius Film »

… to advance $1.2 billion debt relief plan – Published on Russia Today RT, Dec 1, 2013.

Iceland’s government has announced that it will be writing off up to 24,000 euros ($32,600) of every household’s mortgage, fulfilling its election promise, despite overwhelming criticism from international financial institutions.

The measure was introduced by the country’s prime minister, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, the leader of the Progressive Party which won the late-April elections on a promise of household debt relief.   Continuer la lecture de « Iceland thumbs nose at international opposition … »

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Bartholomäus Grill in Bagamayo, Tanzania, Nov 29, 2013. (Photo Gallery).

Chinese companies have pumped billions into Africa to secure access to natural resources, boosting countries’ economies along the way. Ordinary citizens aren’t reaping the benefits, though, and have become increasingly wary of the new investors.

In a three-part series, SPIEGEL is exploring fundamental changes occurring in Africa – a continent the West has long written off, but is now being embraced by other countries. This is Part I of the series. An introduction can be read here.   Continuer la lecture de « Billions from Beijing: Africans Divided over Chinese Presence, Part 1 »

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 902, by Charles Smith, November 28, 2013.

The neoliberal assault on labour has now entered its fourth decade. While Canada’s labour union density continues to hover around thirty percent, that number hides declining density rates in the private sector. Equally concerning for the labour movement has been the long assault on the post-war labour freedoms to organize, bargain, and strike. As Leo Panitch and Donald Swartz have shown in their book, governments routinely seek to limit labour’s core freedoms, especially the right to strike. When Stephen Harper’s government claimed that the fragility of the Canadian economy was justification to take away the right of thousands of federal workers to strike, it became clear that strikes themselves were in danger of being legislated away … // Continuer la lecture de « Privacy and the Right to Strike in Canada »

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Andreas Lorenz, Nov 27, 2013 (Photo Gallery).

Each year, foreign agricultural corporations deprive thousands of Cambodian farmers of their fields — with the government’s help. Human rights groups claim German taxpayer money is used to fund a program that benefits land grabbers.

Everyone in the Cambodian village of Chouk remembers what happened on the morning of May 19, 2006, when bulldozers appeared on National Route 48, which cuts through the town. Men from a Thai company, Khon Kaen Sugar Industry PCL, presented the Cambodian villagers with documents and said: « This land now belongs to us. »   Continuer la lecture de « Land Grab: Foreign Firms Drive Cambodians from Farms »

• The Late Show – Special: Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes, 38.13 min, uploaded by se146np, Nov 11, 2012;
• Newsnight on responsible capitalism, Prof Eric Hobsbawm (19Jan12), 5.51 min, uploaded by liarpoliticians, Jan 20, 2012;
• How to Change the World, Socialist History Society, 25 Feb 2011, 33.56 min, uploaded by Adrian Cousins, March 1, 2011;
• Eric Hobsbawm: After the XXth Century: A World in Transition, 45.22 min, uploaded by fundacionvidanta, June 26, 2013;
• Eric Hobsbawm – Intellectuals and the Spanish Civil War, 54.58 min, uploaded by ashikmlakonja, August 31, 2012;   Continuer la lecture de « Eric Hobsbawm »

Published on ZNet, by Mitchell Szczepanczyk, Nov 25, 2013.

In a time when supposedly nothing is taboo and anything goes and everything is up for re-evaluation, it’s as close to an untouchable taboo catechism as there is in current times: Markets (by which I refer to the formal economic institution of markets) are awesome. Markets are efficient. Markets can do no wrong. Markets are the greatest economic system humans have created, and ever will create. Markets are the best thing since sliced bread and multiple orgasms … // Continuer la lecture de « 10 Problems with Markets »

in english:

• Richard Werner: Debt Free & Interest Free Money, 7.09 min, uploaded by Charles Bazlinton, May 26, 2011: …  facts about money creation that are at the core of every modern economy. About how the creation of the essential money that is needed to sustain growth is founded on debt. This suits banks, of course. Governments have huge debts, to banks, and few people realise that it does not have to be like this …;  Continuer la lecture de « Interest-Free Money – Dept-Free Economy »

in english and in german:

Pale Blue Dot Raumschiff Erde Ein Staubkorn im Universum, 4.00 min, (spoken in english, subtitled in german), uploaded by Daniel kryszkowski,  Sept 14, 2013;

Dr Gregor Gysi DIE LINKE:

• Debatte zu den Abhöraktivitäten der NSA Deutscher Bundestag, 13.04 min, von Daniel kryszkowski am 23. November 20113 hochgeladen;

Continuer la lecture de « links on my dashboard »