former title: Politics for the 99% – then under world-citizenship.org – encore en reconstruction
Published on Russia Today RT, Feb 2, 2015.
Breedlove, NATO’s military commander, is now reportedly leading the crusade to provide lethal military assistance to Kiev to battle the anti-government forces of the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics after failed talks in Minsk this weekend. Continuer la lecture de « US mulls providing Kiev forces with ‘defensive’ weapons – report »
Published on teleSUR english, by Michael Albert, Jan 30, 2015.
Have you heard the expression « sick society »? I have. Often. In fact most I have heard it often in reference to my own society, the U.S. And increasingly so, of late … // Continuer la lecture de « Sick or Psychotic? Bradley Cooper in American Sniper »
Published on Spiegel Online International, by Nikolaus Blome, Manfred Ertel, Julia Amalia Heyer, Horand Knaup, Walter Mayr, Peter Müller, René Pfister, Christian Reiermann, Mathieu von Rohr and Helene Zuber, Jan 30, 2015 (Photo Gallery).
Greek election victor Alexis Tsipras wants an entirely different Europe from the one envisioned by Angela Merkel. His success is likely to stoke anger over Germany’s EU dominance. Leaders in France and Italy are also hoping for an end to austerity. Continuer la lecture de « Merkel's unintended creation, could Tsipras' Win upset balance of power in Europe? »
related articles published during January 2015 … : Continuer la lecture de « Basic Income BIG – Revenu de Base – Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen BGE, JANUARY 1-31, 2015 »
Published on Russia Today RT, Jan 30, 2015.
Greece hasn’t outright asked Russia for a loan, but Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said Moscow wouldn’t rule it out. His statement comes days after Greece openly opposed further economic sanctions against Russia. Continuer la lecture de « Russia might bailout Greece – finance minister »
Video – Civilians trapped in E. Ukraine conflict zone adjust to war reality, 3.07 min, published on Russia Today RT, Jan 29, 2015.
Residents of towns along the frontline in eastern Ukraine have been living in constant fear ever since full-scale fighting resumed there. RT’s Roman Kosarev has spoken to those trying to survive in the very heart of the conflict zone. Continuer la lecture de « Life under fire »
… the origin of modern terror and crumbling Western values – Published on Intrepid Report, by John Chuckman, Jan 28, 2015.
… Have Islamic radicals always existed? Yes, we have records through the history of British and French empire-building of strange and fearsome groups. It appears every large religion has a spectrum of believers, always including at one end of the spectrum extreme fundamentalists. They are not a new phenomenon anywhere, so why has one group of them, in the sands of the Middle East, become part of our everyday awareness? Continuer la lecture de « The elephant in the room »
FIRST LISTEN THIS: TTIP, A Wolf In Sheeps Clothing, 49.07 min, uploaded by R.A.W.W. – Raising Awareness World Wide, August 29, 2014: Alarm bells on ISDS are ringing this loud for a reason: ISDS allows foreign firms to bypass domestic courts and sue governments …;
Free Trade Faults: Europeans Fear Wave of Litigation from US Firms – Published on Spiegel Online International, by Christoph Pauly, Jan 26, 2015: Continuer la lecture de « again: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership TTIP »
Published on The Bullet, Socialist Projects e-bulletin no 1071, by Leo Panitch, Jan 23, 2015.
As we enter the eighth year of the long-lingering global economic crisis, it is sobering indeed that it is only in Greece that a political party putting forward a clear, radical democratic alternative to the perverse policies of neoliberal austerity stands on the doorstep of entering the state … // Continuer la lecture de « The Greek Election »
Published on ZNet, by Mike-Frank Epitropoulos, Jan 25, 2015.
… Memoranda and Austerity: Cutting Up Greece:
Published on Dissident Voice, by Medea Benjamin, Jan 22, 2015.
On January 23, Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare, will begin a three-month jail sentence in federal prison for a protest against drones (also known as “unmanned aerial vehicles”) at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. I had a chance to interview her before she had to turn herself in … // Continuer la lecture de « Federal Prison Sentence Begins for Anti-Drone Activist »
Published on Dissident Voice (first on Greg Palast’s web site for το χωνί), by Greg Palast, Jan 20, 2015.
Europe is stunned, and bankers aghast, that polls show the new party of the Left, Syriza, will win Greece’s parliamentary elections to be held this coming Sunday, January 25.
Syriza promises that, if elected, it will cure Greece of leprosy. Oddly, Syriza also promises that it will remain in the leper colony. That is, Syriza wants to rid Greece of the cruelty of austerity imposed by the European Central Bank but insists on staying in the euro zone. Continuer la lecture de « Trojan Hearse: Greek Elections and the Euro Leper Colony »
Benchmarking the ECB’s QE Program, on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, Jan 22, 2015;
Video by Al Jazeera English: We’ve launched our new website, 1.01 min, uploaded by Al Jazeera English, Jan 21, 2015: Website;
Martin Luther King, an American Hero, where is his Replacement? on Global Researach.ca (first on Paul Craig Roberts.org), by Paul Craig Roberts, Jan 20, 2015;
Rule from the Shadows – The Psychology of Power – Part 1, 37.23 min, uploaded by StormCloudsGathering, Jan 7, 2014: time to look behind the curtain, Website … and other videos in autoplay; Continuer la lecture de « Divers Concerns, Election in Greece, Financial Warfare »
The same speech he could make today … on multiple wars, the world economic system, our narrowed understanding about others, about life …:
Video: Martin Luther King jr. – Why I Am Opposed to The War in Vietnam, 23.32 min: