Catégorie : Politics

Published on Social Europe.eu, by Joseph Stiglitz and Adam Hersh, Oct 5, 2015.

As negotiators and ministers from the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries meet in Atlanta in an effort to finalize the details of the sweeping new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), some sober analysis is warranted. The biggest regional trade and investment agreement in history is not what it seems.

You will hear much about the importance of the TPP for “free trade.” The reality is that this is an agreement to manage its members’ trade and investment relations – and to do so on behalf of each country’s most powerful business lobbies. Make no mistake: It is evident from the main outstanding issues, over which negotiators are still haggling, that the TPP is not about “free” trade.   Continuer la lecture de « The Trans-Pacific Free-Trade Charade »

Pubished on Social Europe, by Sinob Glendinning, Oct 9, 2015.

… Nietzsche is a German philosopher best known for his radical critique of Europe’s historical (and especially Christian) morality of “good and evil”. However, it is less well known that his efforts to go “beyond” the Europe of those values is still made in the name of Europe, and specifically with reference to the coming of a new “supra-national and nomadic type of man” that he calls “good Europeans” (154). These Europeans will have achieved independence of any “definite milieu” (153), and belong to a Europe that “wants to become one” (169). In what follows I want briefly to raise the question why Nietzsche retains this stress on Europe. Why does Nietzsche speak of “we Europeans”, and not simply, say, “we whoevers”? … // Continuer la lecture de « Nietzsche, Europe And The German Question »

Published on Global Research.ca, by Binoy Kampmark, Oct 8, 2015: Global Markets Imperilled by “Unfree Trade”.

… The estranged political classes continued their defiance of democratic practice by signing, again without the involvement of non-trade interests, a document that has been sold as a choice between the rash and the damned. The delegates at the Atlanta round of talks for the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement came from twelve states, and some of them were acutely aware that domestic matters were pressing. The election cycle in the United States is starting to gain steam. Canada faces a close election on October 19. Australia’s new prime minister is hunkering down.   Continuer la lecture de « The Trans Pacific Partnership TPP on Environment and Labour »

Published on Global Research.ca, by South Front, Oct 2, 2015 – Video Report (also on YouTube, 2.14 min).

On Wednesday morning, the Federation Council upper house of parliament granted permission to the Russian president to use the country’s troops in Syria. Kremlin chief of staff Sergey Ivanov said that Russia will use only its Air Force in Syria and it does this on Syrian President Bashar Assad’s request.   Continuer la lecture de « Syria Military Review: Studying the Russian Military Operation »

Published on Oil Price, by Robert Berke, Oct 6, 2015.

Few meetings ever started with dimmer prospects for success than the recent meeting between Presidents Obama and Putin.

The real call for the meeting stemmed from the EU refugee crisis. With a human catastrophe brewing in Europe and the Middle East, EU leaders are urgently demanding that the U.S. and Russia set aside their differences and begin to work together in an effort to resolve the Syrian conflict, the major cause of the massive movement of people seeking sanctuary.   Continuer la lecture de « Could The Syrian Conflict Irrevocably Change Global Geopolitics? »

Published on Dissident Voice (first in Z Magazine https://zcomm.org/zmag/ ), by Edward S. Herman, Oct 5, 2015.

… There is a vagueness in these references to a supposed “mission” and “reasons.” We should not forget that the U.S. leader in this Iraq enterprise, U.S. President George W. Bush, had originally claimed that the sole reason for invading Iraq was its possession of weapons of mass destruction and the threat that this posed to international peace and security. Once that was admitted to have been a fraud the mission and its purported reasons would seem to have disappeared and immediate withdrawal should have been called for . However, this was quickly adjusted to the mission of bringing democracy to Iraq, presumably to help the Iraqi people improve their lives as well as reduce the external threat of dictatorship. But any sensible person should recognize that a U.S. leadership that stands firmly with Saudi Arabia, and had earlier supported Saddam Hussein when he was attacking Iran, couldn’t be expending resources for any democratic objective … // Continuer la lecture de « After All We Did For Them in Fallujah »

Published on Russia Today RT, Oct 5, 2015.

Two thirds of EU states have requested to be allowed to ban the growing of genetically modified crops in their countries, choosing the “opt-out” clause of a European Commission rule that allows members to override EU-wide GMO approvals. (This means), nineteen European Union member states have requested opt-outs from the acculturation of genetically-modified crops for all or part of their territory, the European Commission announced. Continuer la lecture de « Europe: two thirds of EU states reject GMO crops, file cultivation opt-out requests »

What Exactly Would Define a Terrorist in The USA? What Have Your “Moderate Rebels” Done in the last Four Years? – Published on Global Research.ca, by Friends of Syria, Oct 2, 2015.

The FSA (Free Syrian Army) have killed hundreds of thousands of Syrian citizens, they have kidnapped and beheaded innocent citizens. They have killed Generals in the Syrian army with car bombs. They have thrown post office workers off the roof of their building. They have shot sportsmen because they represent their country. They have set off car bombs outside schools, police stations, hospitals and universities … // Continuer la lecture de « Syria versus America »

• KenFM – Positionen #2, 170.12 min, von wwwKenFMde am 29. Sept 2015 hochgeladen … eine längere Diskussion mit: Prof. Dr. Athanassios Giannis, Leiter des Instituts für organische Chemie der Universität Leipzig; mit Peter König, der über 20 Jahre für die Weltbank Wasserentwicklungsprojekte geleitet hat; mit Ernst Wolff, Autor des Buches « Weltmacht IWF – Chronik eines Raubzuges »; und mit Albrecht Müller, Ökonom, ehemaliger Wahlkampfleiter von Willy Brandt und Kopf des alternativen Nachrichtenportals NachDenkSeiten;
• mehr von KenFMde: auf seinem YouTube-Kanal; auf YouTube-search; auf Google Web-search.

von rubomaxkanal1 am 25. Februar 2012 auf YouTube hochgeladen:   Continuer la lecture de « die Welt von Erich von Däniken »

Published on Dances with Bears, by John Helmer, Sept 29, 2015.

The Australian Government is sure the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) investigation of the downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17 will fail to identify the precise cause of the crash, and will be inconclusive on who and what were responsible. A report, termed final by the DSB, is scheduled for release on October 13 … // Continuer la lecture de « MH17 – why the investigation will never end, the evidence never seen »

Published on Intrepid Report, by Stephen Lendman, Oct 1, 2015.

It’s always open season on irresponsibly bashing Vladimir Putin—instead of embracing his sensible solutions to major world problems.

Western media are relentless, marching to the drumbeat of imperial regimes they represent, partnering with America’s killing machine—polar opposite Putin’s global peace and stability agenda, respecting the sovereign rights of all nations, urging unity to achieve common objectives benefitting everyone.   Continuer la lecture de « Irresponsible Putin bashing following his UN address »

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Armin Mahler, Sept 30, 2015.

Arrogance and complacency are widespread in Germany industry, with Volkswagen becoming just the most recent example. For the German economy to remain healthy, fundamental changes are necessary. Continuer la lecture de « VW Scandal: Time for German Industry to Abandon Its Arrogance »

Published on Basic Income Earth Network BIEN, by Karen Christine Patrick, Sept 28, 2015.

I can attest to “angels in the system” so for people in the social work class who are not only doing their job well, but still care deeply for people… this is not about you. This is about your co-workers who’s body shows up to shuffle the paperwork, but their mind and heart are absent, who stick by the rules even if the “rules” are just guidelines, are badly trained or misinformed. These are the deciders who make of the system a labyrinth of despair. There are also the devils of the system, the ones for whom my mother said, “would break the wings off of butterflies.” Our bureaucratic system acts as a dank, dark cellar system that warehouses human “resources” made from our most vulnerable citizens, the “precariat” with no other door to walk through. Continuer la lecture de « THE DECIDER CLASS – gatekeepers in the system »