Catégorie : Politics

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No 1308, by Planka.nu, Sept 27, 2016: one is not born a motorist, one becomes one.

Mobility and class are deeply entangled. Not only because one’s potential for mobility often has to do with one’s economic position, but also because a society built on today’s mobility paradigm – automobility – directly contributes to growing economic and social differences.   Continuer la lecture de « The Traffic Hierarchy »

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Alexander Bühler, Susanne Koelbl, Sandro Mattioli and Walter Mayr, Sept 26, 2016 (Photo Gallery).

Since 2013, over 10,000 migrants have drowned while attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Europe. Behind the deaths lies a multi-million dollar smuggling trade with financial connections to Frankfurt, Italy and Libya … // Continuer la lecture de « Following the Money: On the Trail of African Migrant Smugglers – part 1 »

Published on teleSUR english, by Heather Gies, 25 Sept 2016.

• Vulnerable rural communities warn that the development model of Colombia’s new era of peace could spark a new exploitative land and resource grab.
• As Colombia’s government and main rebel group prepare to sign a historic rapproachment Monday, the question that remains following more than 5 decades of civil war is this: does peace necessarily bring progress … //

Continuer la lecture de « PEACE IN COLOMBIA: Afro-Colombians, Indigenous fear new Pitfalls in Peace Deal »

Published on Foreign Policy in Focus FPIF (first in The Nation), by Walden Bello, Sept 23, 2016.

American intervention was one factor leading to the Chilean coup—but unrest on the part of middle-class Chileans was another.   Continuer la lecture de « How Middle-Class Chileans Contributed to the Overthrow of Salvador Allende »

… a scary future for farmers around the world – Published on AlterNet.org, by Katherine Paul, Sept 23, 2016.

… Reactions poured in from all the usual suspects.

Groups like the Farmers Union, Food & Water Watch, Friends of the Earth and others didn’t mince words when it came to condemning the deal. (Organic Consumers Association tagged it a Marriage Made in Hellback in May, pre-announcement, when the two mega-corporations were still doing their mating dance). Continuer la lecture de « FOOD: A Five-Alarm Threat to Our Food Supply, Experts Describe Bayer-Monsanto Merger »