Catégorie : Politics

Published on Wolf Street, by Wolf Richter, March 4, 2016: if punishment interest exceeds the pain threshold.

The Association of Bavarian Savings Banks, which represents 71 savings banks in the German State of Bavaria, has had it with the ECB’s negative deposit-rate absurdity, and it’s now instigating a palace revolt. Continuer la lecture de « It Begins: Palace Revolt against ECB’s NIRP »

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1229, by Claudio Katz, March 4, 2016: Neo-Developmentalist Attempts and Socialist Projects.

… The year 2015 ended with significant advances of the Right in South America. Mauricio Macri was elected President in Argentina, the opposition gained a majority in the Venezuelan parliament, and Dilma Rousseff is being hounded relentlessly in Brazil. Then there are the conservatives’ campaigns in Ecuador, and it remains to be seen whether Evo Morales will obtain a new mandate in Bolivia.[1] Continuer la lecture de « Is South America’s ‘Progressive Cycle’ at an End? »

Published on Dissident Voice (first on Activist Teacher), by Denis Rancourt, March 2, 2016.

Geopolitics determines domestic policy.

This is apparent in the client country “Canada”, where no sovereignty is allowed, and where domestic policy is entirely about preventing any emergence of actual democracy.   Continuer la lecture de « It’s the Geopolitics, stupid »

Published on ZNet (first on Portside.org), by Ruth Needleman, March 1, 2016.

Ana began working in a shoe factory in Sapiranga, Southern Brazil, when she was 11 years old. A single mother, Ana worked 6, 10-hour days a week for the next 30 years. Her son could not get help from her on his school work, because she never had a chance to attend school. She felt invisible.   Continuer la lecture de « Transformational Education: Creating Engaged Citizens »

• RT America’s special coverage FULL, 4h / 240 min, uploaded by the RT America channel, March 1, 2016 … Republicans and Democrats will flock to the polls and meeting rooms on Tuesday across 12 states, where primaries and caucuses will make or break the seven candidates’ campaigns to become their party’s nominee in the 2016 presidential election;
• Read more on RT USA: Crunch time, 6 things to know about Super Tuesday, March 1, 2016;
• Turning point of road to White house – LIVE UPDATES, on RT, March 1, 2016.

• Violence conjugale en publique (Prank), 5.32 min, mise en ligne par Webzer … Les membres de OckTV ont réalisé une expérience sociale dans la rue en public pour filmer la réaction des gens face à de la violence conjugale. Un homme va faire semblant de frapper sa copine. Les passants vont intervenir rapidement. Puis ils vont inverser les rôles, la femme va frapper son copain. Et là, c’est complètement différent, les passants ont tendance à se moquer – short translation: violence against women, the public reacts against the man – violence against a man, the public is rather mocking the man;   Continuer la lecture de « Domestic Violence – Violence Conjugale – Häusliche Gewalt »

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Giorgos Christidis, Katrin Kuntz, Walter Mayr, Peter Müller, Jan Puhl and Mathieu von Rohr, Feb 26, 2016 (Photo Gallery).

Angela Merkel is still hoping for a European solution to the refugee crisis. But with patience running out, Austria has joined countries on the Balkan Route to impose Plan B. But with the closure of borders, the situation in Greece is becoming dangerous … // Continuer la lecture de « Refugee Crisis Disunity: A De Facto Solution Takes Shape in the Balkans »

related articles published during February 2016: (continuously updated … ) Continuer la lecture de « Basic Income BIG – Revenu de Base – Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen BGE, February 1-29, 2016 »

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• Too many players in Syria crisis, It’s like Germany in The Thirty Years’ War, 3.58 min, Feb 26, 2016: a ceasefire has come into force in Syria. Along with the government – almost 100 opposition factions have confirmed that they will respect the truce. However, ISIS and al-Nusra Front – along with other terrorist organisations – are not part of the deal. The next step in solving the Syrian crisis will be made on March 7;   Continuer la lecture de « on YouTube: Syria's War resp Refugees »

die Angst vor einem kritischen Bestseller – Gerhard Wisnewski, 69.34 min, von Querdenken TV vom 20. Feb 2016.

NAJIB Contagion, all hell set to break loose – Published on Malaysia Chronicle, by Sarawak Report, Feb 25, 2016.

The news today that Goldman Sachs has now formally acknowledged that its South East Asia Chairman, Tim Leissner, has indeed ‘left the bank’, sometime earlier this month, indicates they plan to make him their high level fall guy over the 1MDB imbroglio.

It’s not good enough.   Continuer la lecture de « Malaysia must sue Goldman Sachs & all complicit banks »

Published on Dissident Voice, by Binoy Kampmark, Feb 25, 2016 (also on International Police Digest).

He always had a rough deal. He strayed as a young man, a situation that would have been perfectly acceptable if he had picked the approved rogue group or terrorist collective to vent his adolescent angst. Al Qaeda, and their Taliban hosts, were not on that list. Having fallen out of favour with the Oscar equivalent of good terrorist nominees, Australia’s David Hicks found himself in the dark, picked up in Afghanistan in November 2001 and conveyed to that terrestrial nightmare known as Guantánamo Bay soon after.   Continuer la lecture de « Offshoring Justice: David Hicks, Australia and the UN Human Rights Committee »

• Syrian Kurds accused of siding with Assad and Russia, 2-07 min, uploaded by Al Jazeera English, Feb 24, 2016;
• Interview: Michael Gorbatschow über Putin, die Deutschen, Amerika, 3.49 min, von SpiegelTV (spoken in english, subtitled in german);
• (my comment: there is nothing complicated: US/NATO-elites proclaim enemies being all those who not hate Putin resp Assad, but Putin / Assad will remain, thus US/NATO will never be able/willing for any peace. So, just tell them to leave the region … force them to go home … and make it, this damned peace. Syrians will be gratefull, more and more regret their trip to german’s paradise: for many because of the future underclass workplaces, for all the food-shock, for more than a few the women’s so-called not-so-much-submitted-behavior-shock. And most Germans will be gratefull for no more being overrun – Heidi);

Continuer la lecture de « Syria/US/NATO – Kurds/Putin/Assad … which kind of peace? »

… the Politics of Abortion and the Irish National Election – Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1225, by Carol-Anne Hudson, Feb 23, 2016.

Abortion is one of the defining issues of the 2016 national Irish election, yet a vast majority of candidates have declined to give their views on the controversial subject. 331 of the 392 candidates have not declared a position, 33 candidates have stated support for keeping the 8th Amendment, and another 28 candidates have stated that they want to repeal the 8th. Labour, Sinn Féin, the Greens, Social Democrats, and a number of Left Independents have pledged to hold a referendum to remove the “right to life” 8th Amendment from the Constitution, which prevents the liberalization of the state’s abortion laws … // Continuer la lecture de « Women Can’t Wait, Repeal the 8th »

Published on ZNet, Interview with Jean Bricmont, conducted by Maidhc Ó Cathail, Feb 22, 2016.

Maidhc Ó Cathail: Do you see Cologne, 2015 as a turning point or the beginning of the end for European civilization? Continuer la lecture de « How Humanitarian Imperialism Led to Europe’s Refugee Crisis »