former title: Politics for the 99% – then under world-citizenship.org – encore en reconstruction
Published on Real-World Economics Review Blog RWER, by Editor, Aug 4, 2015.
The answer depends on what we mean by capital accumulation. The common view of this process is deeply utilitarian. Capitalists, we are told, seek to maximize their so-called ‘real wealth’: they try to accumulate as many machines, structures, inventories and intellectual property rights as they can … // Continuer la lecture de « Accumulation of what? »
Published on MrZine.org, by Victor Grossman, Aug 2, 2015.
« I don’t know. » Those words, often repeated 160-odd years ago in the USA, earned the gang of those using them the nickname « Know-Nothing Party. » Those were no expressions of intellectual modesty; party doings were secret, so members were not supposed to disclose anything about them, but just say, « I don’t know. » Their patriotic title was actually « American Party, » but many members truly knew almost nothing except that they hated immigrants, especially Catholic Germans and Irish, and wanted to bar them from entry, from citizenship and from the vote. Continuer la lecture de « german Know-Nothings today »
Published on Montreal Gazette, by Donna Nebenzahl, Aug 1, 2015.
… The beds of this Action Communiterre collective garden in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce are already yielding lettuce, Swiss chard, peas, nasturtiums and a variety of herbs, along with raspberries from the bushes that form a pollinating garden around the edges of the space. The runner beans are climbing above the carrots, marigolds grow alongside eggplant, and peppers and tomatoes are being tied to strings attached to the wood frames that support them. Continuer la lecture de « the growing pains of urban agriculture »
Published on Perry G. Mehrling, by blog owner, July 31, 2015.
In the last few weeks, the ECB has been drawing on its liquidity swap line with the Fed, first $308 million for a week, then $658 million for a week, and last week back down to $358 million. What’s that about? … // Continuer la lecture de « testing the global central bank swap network »
Published on The Economic Times, by Yogima Sharma, August 1, 2015.
NEW DELHI: The government will likely put some money in your bank account every month if it goes ahead with a proposal currently being considered at the highest levels. The plan is to expand the direct cash transfer scheme, by deducting a portion of the subsidy each family receives through various government welfare schemes and putting an equivalent amount of cash in the account of the beneficiary … // Continuer la lecture de « India: Government planning to deduct part of subsidies and hand it over to beneficiaries to boost demand »
Published on Global Research.ca, by Stephen Lendman, July 26, 2015.
When investing becomes gambling, bad endings follow. The next credit crunch could make 2008-09 look mild by comparison. Bank of International Settlements(BIS) data show around $700 trillion in global derivatives. Continuer la lecture de « Global Derivatives: the $ 1.5 Quadrillion Time Bomb »
related articles published during July 2015 (continuously updated …) Continuer la lecture de « Basic Income BIG – Revenu de Base – Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen BGE, JULY 1-31, 2015 »
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Published on The Telegraph.co.uk, by Matthew Scott, July 28, 2015: His plan for a British Bill of Rights will do nothing to reclaim our sovereignty – while his EU renegotiation ignores the real problem.
One thing that unites the vast majority of Conservative MPs is surely the belief that Parliament should be sovereign and the British Supreme Court should be supreme. Continuer la lecture de « Even if we scrap the Human Rights Act, we'll still be beholden to EU laws – David Cameron »
Published on Dissident Voice, by James Petras, July 26th, 2015.
The Greek people’s efforts to end the economic depression, recover their sovereignty and reverse the regressive socio-economic policies, which have drastically reduced living standards, have been thrice denied … //
… Colonialism by Invitation: Continuer la lecture de « Greece and the European Union »
Griechenland – Volker Pispers Kabarett komplett, neu in HD, 159.30 min, von Entertainment Babe am 7. Juli 2015 hochgeladen … zu den Themen Kapitalismus, Merkel, Schuldenabbau und mehr, passend zur aktuellen Griechenland Debatte.
Published on OpEdNews, by Derryl Hermanutz, July 2015:
Part 1, July 12, 2015: Private commercial banks exercise a near absolute monopoly on the primary issuance and allocation of money. Virtually all money is created out of nothing by banks and loaned into existence as government and private debt. Debt binds the nations in compliant submission while money buys the world at destitution prices. It doesn’t have to be this way. Monetary reform — breaking the bank debt-money monopoly — is the first step toward the solution … // Continuer la lecture de « Diary: The Great Unbinding »
Published on Dissident Voice, by Graham Peebles, July 23, 2015.
Given the catalogue of calamities raging round the world, one could be forgiven for concluding that we are a civilisation in terminal decline. The socio-economic system, which promotes negative divisive ideals, dominates all areas of life and is the cause of much of our difficulties. It is an outworn, unjust way of organising society; does not serve the majority of people – the 99.9%; and is causing far-reaching damage to the planet that, unless radical action is taken, may well prove irreparable … // Continuer la lecture de « Education: Time for a New Purpose »