former title: Politics for the 99% – then under world-citizenship.org – encore en reconstruction
Published on The Guardian, by Faiza Shaheen, Nov 16, 2016.
These seemingly bland organisations are actively undermining employment rights, driving precarious workers into the arms of exploitative companies … // Continuer la lecture de « In the gig economy, recruitment agencies are the gangmasters »
… bevor wir wieder zur Tagesordnung übergehen:
Published on truthout, by Skanda Kadirgamar, Nov 16, 2016.
… Aggressive Trainings:
The ITOA conference is one of many tactical trainings and weapons fairs that occur across the United States. These trainings offer participating police departments a variety of training opportunities such as licensing officers to use « less than lethal » weapons like tear gas and tasers. Continuer la lecture de « US: Schooled in Terror, the Tactical Trainings where Cops Militarize their Brutality »
Published on Dissident Voice, by Mohammed Mesbahi, Nov 15, 2016: a spiritual education for the Art of Being (Part One; Part Two).
… The lack of right education in our societies therefore highlights our underlying dilemma, in that the sharing economy is a viable idea, a potentially colossal and planetary idea, if it is accomplished in a wholly inclusive and moral way by firstly concentrating all our attention on the needs of the world’s struggling poor majority. Continuer la lecture de « The True Sharing Economy: Inaugurating an Age of the Heart, Part 3 of 3 »
Published on Countercurrents.org, by Mirza Yawar Baig, Nov 15, 2016.
Dire Straits’ famous song has some very politically incorrect lyrics but the refrain, ‘Money for nothing and the chicks for free’ sums up the situation of black marketeers and owners before the demonetization and the name of the songsters – Dire Straits – sums up their situation in India today. But what are the implications of demonetization? We have seen many theories; conspiracy and otherwise. One of the best articles that I have read is by former Finance and Economic Affairs Secretary, Arvind Mayaram, which is here: Continuer la lecture de « India: Demonetisation And The Loss Of Faith In Rupee »
… including most kids in Afghanistan – Published on RT, Nov 15, 2016.
.. Thirty-two percent also said their schools were not always safe. The ‘Small Voices, Big Dreams’ survey, conducted by the ChildFund Alliance, interviewed 6,226 children between the ages of 10 and 12 who live in 41 countries – 31 of which are developing nations across Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Of the students surveyed, 3,658 were from developing nations. Continuer la lecture de « One-third of children in developing countries miss school to work – survey »
Published on The Spectator, Brendan O’Neill, Nov 9, 2016.
If you want to know why Trump won, just look at the response to his winning. The lofty contempt for ‘low information’ Americans. The barely concealed disgust for the rednecks and cretins of ‘flyover’ America who are apparently racist and misogynistic and homophobic. The haughty sneering at the vulgar, moneyed American political system and how it has allowed a wealthy candidate to poison the little people’s mushy, malleable minds. Continuer la lecture de « The sneering response to Trump’s victory reveals exacytly why he won »
Published on In The Half Light, by PaulOC, Nov 9, 2016.
The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, much like the Brexit vote in the UK earlier this year, has been greeted by mainstream commentators with a mixture of vapid incomprehension and shrill, moralistic denouncement. The emptiness of these responses reflect a central problem for liberals, centrists, so-called ‘leftists’ and others in advanced capitalist countries, namely that their gods have failed them. Capitalist development and competition, wedded to (and notionally tempered by) limited, representative democracy and consensus politics have all proven inadequate to the historical tasks before them. Continuer la lecture de « Trump, Mair and The Gods That Failed »
Published on Global Research.ca, by RT News, Nov 10, 2016.
At least five Russian major banks came under a continuous hacker attack, although online client services were not disrupted. The attack came from a wide-scale botnet involving at least 24,000 computers, located in 30 countries. Continuer la lecture de « Cyber-warfare: Five Major Russian Banks Repel Massive DDoS Attack »
Published on The Independent.co.uk, by Kim Sengupta, Nov 9, 2016.
On some areas of geopolitics the UK is now out of step with the new White House, particularly when it comes to Russia’s role in Syria.
It has been a paradox of the US election that Donald Trump, the right-wing populist, was seen as a dove on foreign and defence policy while Hillary Clinton, the liberal sophisticate, was regarded as a hawk … (no, it’s not a paradox, this chaos is wanted, so people may be better misleaded … and the UK goes it’s own way with Brexit, but mainstream media and the establishment are unable to recognize it … because it’s the people who decide (called populism) and not the elites – Heidi). Continuer la lecture de « A new world is born with Trump's foreign policy and the UK is left behind »
Published on Let’s Try Democracy, by David Swanson, Nov 9, 2016.
Dear Democrats, are you finding yourselves suddenly a bit doubtful of the wisdom of drone wars? Presidential wars without Congress? Massive investment in new, smaller, « more usable » nuclear weapons? The expansion of bases across Africa and Asia? Are you disturbed by the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen? Can total surveillance and the persecution of whistleblowers hit a point where they’ve gone too far? Is the new Cold War with Russia looking less than ideal now? How about the militarization of U.S. police: is it time to consider alternatives to that? Continuer la lecture de « Now We Can Finally Get to Work »
Published on Dissident Voice (first on New Eastern Outlook) NEO, by Andre Vltchek, Nov 7, 2016.
People all over the world are fed up with capitalism … // Continuer la lecture de « Top Secret: These are actually Socialist Countries »
Published on RT, Nov 6, 2016.
Among the many ways in which the 2016 US presidential election has been out of the ordinary is the invocation of Russia as a looming threat to American democracy, basically putting “Putin on the ballot” in the words of the Washington Post. Continuer la lecture de « 'Red Scare 2', Russia and the 2016 US election »
Published on Informed Comment, by Juan Cole, Nov 4, 2016.
The Turkish government has detained 11 members of parliament from the leftist, feminist and pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP),including the party’s co-chairs. This step is intended to give Erdogan the majority in parliament he needs to make himself president for life, and to give Turkey (currently a parliamentary government) an imperial presidency on the Egyptian model. The pretext was that these MPs declined to testify in a witch-hunt inquiry. I.e., this is precisely McCarthyism. Continuer la lecture de « Turkish Gov’t arrests 15 Opposition MPs in Further Descent into Dictatorship »
Published on New Statesman, by John McDonnell, Nov 2, 2016.
After four decades, the economic consensus is crumbling, what can politicians do next? Continuer la lecture de « UK: Caught at a crossroads, it's time to build an alternative to neoliberalism »