former title: Politics for the 99% – then under world-citizenship.org – encore en reconstruction
Published on Counterpunch, by Bo Filter, May 15-17, 2015.
Don’t expect the concept of extinction or omnicide to roll off the lips of nuclear warriors. Their brains focus on the win-ability of nuclear war to the exclusion of all other possibilities. Let’s take a minute to examine the myopic mindset of nuclear strategists and what we should be doing about it … // Continuer la lecture de « Winning a Nuclear War? »
Published on Global Research.ca, by Jim Miles, MAy 17, 2015.
… There are some broad trends that should be obvious. Financially, the ‘western’ world is operating as a debt laden consumer society, competing with the rising strengths of China and Russia as co-leaders in an at best multi-polar world. Militarily, the U.S. and its allied NATO countries remain dominant, but that dominance is reckoned on the threats of a failed “full spectrum dominance” military, backed by an official first strike nuclear capability and policy. Continuer la lecture de « Over Reach of the Financial-Military Complex and the New Multi-Polar World Order »
… the US needs the Iceland option – Published on Dissident Voice (first on This Can’t Be Happening), by Dave Lindorff, May 16, 2015.
In a couple of days, the so-called US Justice Department will be announcing an “agreement” reached with five large banks, including two of the largest in the US — JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup, the holding companies for Chase and Citibank — under which these banks or bank holding companies will plead guilty to felonies involving the manipulation of international currency markets. Continuer la lecture de « If Too-Big-to-Fail means Too-Big-to-Jail it should mean Too-Big-to-Be »
… of soft music, endless.
Published on Global Research.ca (also on World Socialist Web Site WSWS), by Andre Damon, May 15, 2015.
Five major international banks are expected to plead guilty as soon as next week to criminal charges in the US related to their deliberate manipulation of global foreign exchange markets, which allowed them to rake in billions of dollars at the expense of retirees, university endowments and municipalities. Continuer la lecture de « Five Major Banks to Plead Guilty to Rigging Currency Markets »
… it’s an Arab-Palestinian Nakba, and We Are All Refugees – Published on Dissident Voice, by Ramzy Baroud, May 13, 2015.
In a western capital far away from Gaza and Cairo, I recently shared a pot of tea with an Egyptian refugee.
The term is familiar to me, but never have I encountered an Egyptian who refers to himself as such. He stated it as a matter of fact by saying: as an Egyptian refugee … and carried on to talk about the political turmoil in his country. Continuer la lecture de « The Arab Boat »
Translation in german: Continuer la lecture de « The White Hats Report – in en & de »
Benidrums Live @ Cafe del Mar Ibiza 2008, 9.20 min, uploaded by O-Tix Oct 29, 2008 … and many more videos in autoplay.
Published on Middle East Eye.net, May 9, 2015: Women held in poor conditions for long periods after failed Mediterranean crossings want to go home, but funds are lacking.
TRIPOLI – Two women gaze out through the broken grill covering one of the windows of the Sorman Detention Centre for illegal immigrants. They are among seven long-term detainees who arrived in Libya in search of a better life but instead found themselves incarcerated in a dank prison which eventually drove them mad. Continuer la lecture de « Driven mad: inside a Libyan detention centre for female migrants »
Logging Threatens One of Europe’s Last Virgin Forests – Published on Spiegel Online International, by Nils Klawitter, May 8, 2015 (Photo Gallery).
One of Europe’s most beautiful forest areas is disappearing piece by piece in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains. Some of the logging is illegal. The wood is then sold to make flooring or heating pellets that are sold in Germany and other countries. Continuer la lecture de « Clear-Cutting (in the Valcea region of the Carpathian Mountains) in Romania »
Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Salah Nasrawi, May 7, 2015.
As Iraq remains bogged down with the war against IS, another catastrophe could be on the horizon.
The Iraqi government is considering a set of measures to deal with the crushing financial crisis, which many fear could lead to economic collapse and accelerate the breakup of the divided and war-torn country. Continuer la lecture de « The looming Iraq (economic) disaster »
The flow of let go, 10.29 min, uploaded by Sjef Adriaansen, Sept 7, 2012 … and many other videos in autoplay.