Catégorie : Politics

• part 1/2, 22.34 min, July 25, 2016: Catarina Principle, co-editor of Europe in Revolt, says a left movement against austerity must pursue the restructuring of public debt, nationalization of key sectors, and public control of the banking system, but none of this can be done within the European Union – also on YouTube;
• part 2/2, 11.08 min, July 26, 2016: Catarina Principe, co-editor of Europe in Revolt, discusses the struggle against austerity in Portugal – also on YouTube;   Continuer la lecture de « The European Revolt Against the Neoliberal EU »

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1285, by Evert Hoogers, Donald Swartz, Rosemary Warskett, July 26, 2016.

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… State of Negotiations: … // Continuer la lecture de « Postal Workers Confront Canada Post, The Struggle Continues in 2016 »

Published on rabble.ca, byY DAVID J. CLIMENHAGA, July 24, 2016.

The person I know best in Munich described the mood in the Bavarian city Friday as « surreal, » so it seems fitting the Tweet from the Munich Police that night notifying the world the crisis sparked by a mass shooting at a fast-food restaurant was finally over had the surreal quality of found poetry … // Continuer la lecture de « Aftermath of Munich shooting offers important lesson on the politics of fear »

Published on ZNet (first on The Dawn) by Andrés Lund, July 23, 2016.

In education, in life, in the public sphere, dialogue is an essential factor for civilization. It is also a way to become subjects, to become who we are, and thus, to overcome oppression. The best dialogue is the kind that is egalitarian and seeks after the common good: this is the sort of dialogue that should exist within the community of the oppressed to shape a feasible Utopia that we need to change lives and transform the world. Continuer la lecture de « Pedagogy of the Oppressor »

… the European project is imploding – Published on Al-Ahram, by Manal Lotfi from London, July 21, 2016.

Events are moving forward at a dramatic pace and while at first glance they may seem like a series of isolated tragedies they are not. French-Tunisian Mohamed Bouhlel, who photographed himself smiling amid children and their families in Nice hours before he ran over hundreds of people in an explosives-laden truck; a Turkish soldier attempts to hide under an armoured vehicle while another Turk kicks him and a second whips him with a belt following the failed coup attempt in Turkey; a Polish waiter who works at a Soho restaurant sits shaking after Brits vote to leave the EU, an Afghan refugee attacking passengers on a train in southern Germany with an axe — all of these are related, facets of interconnected crises that feed one another … // Continuer la lecture de « Europe in despair »

Published on naked capitalism, by #SlayTheSmaugs, July 22, 2016.

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… Remembering Greed is Evil: … //
… The Stealth Violence of False Scarcity and Cutting Corners: … // Continuer la lecture de « The Immorality and Brutal Violence of Extreme Greed »

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1283, by Benjamin Selwyn, July 20, 2016.

Reorienting value generated within ‘global poverty chains’ is essential to improve the lives of an impoverished world labour force. Continuer la lecture de « Rethinking Recovery: Poverty Chains and Global Capitalism »

… open Letter About Iraq to the Swedish Foreign Minister – Published on Global Research.ca, by Sigyn Meder, July 19, 2016.

Ramadi “was liberated” by being destroyed. The civilian population of the city are internal refugees. The bombs of the US-Coalition contributed to death and destruction. Continuer la lecture de « Humanitarian Crisis in Fallujah »

… Erdogan’s Chief Adversary and Public Enemy No. 1 – Publisched on Spiegel Online International, by Veit Medick and Roland Nelles, with additional reporting by Christoph Sydow, July 18, 2016.

In a meeting at his compound in Pennsylvania, Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen defends himself against claims made by Turkey’s president that he was behind this weekend’s failed coup. He alleges that power has poisoned Erdogan.   Continuer la lecture de « A Visit with Fethullah Gülen »

Published on Intrepid Report (first in Wayne Madsen Report ), by Wayne Madsen, July 15, 2016.

The “Queen of Surveillance,” UK Home Secretary Theresa May, has assumed the office of prime minister. May is a longtime champion of every form of intrusive surveillance that ever came before her desk at the Home Office. For Britain, what is already the world’s leading high-tech surveillance state will now move closer to George Orwell’s dystopian futuristic Britain, a country he dubbed “Airstrip One.”   Continuer la lecture de « Big Mother takes over helm of UK »

Published on Current Concerns, by Professor Richard A. Werner, D. Phil. (Oxon), July 12, 2016.

Concerning the second question, the dominant issue in the debate has been the question whether there will be a significant negative economic impact on the UK from exiting the EU. Prime Minister David Cameron, together with the heads of the IMF, the OECD and various EU agencies have given dire warnings that economic growth will drop, the fiscal position will deteriorate, the currency will weaken and UK exports will decline precipitously. George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer has threatened to cut pensions if pensioners dare to vote for exit. But what are the facts?   Continuer la lecture de « EU BASICS – your Guide to the UK Referendum on EU Membership »

… for Those Who Know Little or Nothing about Labor – Published on ZNet (first on Green Social Thought), by Kim Scipes, July 15, 2016.

… Perhaps the most important part of the Introduction is that I disentangle the concepts of globalization and neo-liberal economics, about which there is much confusion. Influenced strongly by and following the work of the Netherlands-born scholar, Jan Nederveen Pieterse (1989, 2004, 2008, 2015), I argue that globalization has existed for a very long time—since the beginning of human migration—and precedes capitalism, modernity and “the West.” Continuer la lecture de « Building Global Labor Solidarity Today »

… the Child Laborers from Syria – Published on Spiegel Online International, by Claas Relotius, July 14, 2016 (Photo Gallery).

Ahmed and Alin were 10 and 11 years old when their parents died in Aleppo. They fled to Turkey and now work there as child laborers — collecting scrap and working in a sweat shop. They dream of escape, but don’t know how … // Continuer la lecture de « The Story of Ahmed and Alin: Syrian Orphans Trapped in Turkey – part 1 »

Update: Theresa May to hand out more jobs in first cabinet, on BBC, July 14, 2016: Prime Minister Theresa May will continue to form her new government later – as she begins her first full day in Downing Street; more on Google Web-search, Google News-search, and on YouTube-search;
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Published on Dissident Voice, by Ramzy Baroud, July 12, 2016.

Last year, I wrote an article that made many readers unhappy. As soon as it was published, I began receiving messages of abuse and angry, threatening calls.   Continuer la lecture de « Being Black Palestinian: Solidarity as a Welcome Pathology »