Catégorie : Politics

• How Experts Enable Corruption: The Role of Conflicted Lawyers at CalPERS and Other Public Pension Funds, on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, Jan 18, 2017:   Continuer la lecture de « what economics do with our lifes »

… and Shelters, Huts, Cabins, Tiny Houses … and …:

Aussie couple builds off-grid mobile home with 2 containers, 44.43 min, uploaded by Kirsten Dirksen;
10 Off Grid Homes, 4.47 min, uploaded by The Survival Camp; Continuer la lecture de « Building Off Grid Houses, Underground Homes, Tree Houses … »

Published on Dissident Voice, by Adnan Al-Daini, January 13, 2017.

A maximum of 20 times the wage of their lowest-paid worker. The Leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, has proposed that bosses’ pay should be no more than 20 times the wage of the lowest-paid worker in the company. The salaries of top bosses have reached grotesque levels as a multiple of average pay. For example, the average pay of the CEOs of the FTSE100 companies in Britain has gone up from 47 times average wage in the 1990s to around 180 times today. Continuer la lecture de « Corbyn is Right on Bosses’ Pay »

Published on truthout, by Michael Corcoran, Jan 11, 2017.

… But while pundits on cable news outlets argue about these issues, media executives who sign their paychecks are positively elated about the 2016 election, which thanks to $2.4 billion in political ad spending and record ratings, was great for Big Media’s bottom line. « This is the best year in the history of cable news, » said CNN President Jeff Tucker in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Continuer la lecture de « 2016: A Bad Year for Democracy, but "Best Ever" for Big Media »

Global Capitalism with Richard D. Wolff, 82.02 min,
……. uploaded by Democracy At Work, Jan 11, 2017 … (about Obamacare, US States Pension Fonding, UK: Jeremy Corbin, Mobile Parks: see on Google Images-search/en.wikipedia, boycotting Trump supporters, income reversal of the 1% vs 50%, … future Trump economics/politics);   Continuer la lecture de « Fixing Capitalism (yet again) vs Moving to Another System »

Published on Global Research.ca, by Bryan Macdonald, Jan 7, 2017.

The eagerly awaited Director Of National Intelligence’s (DNI) report “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections” didn’t need such a long winded title. They could have just called it We Really Don’t Like RT.   Continuer la lecture de « How Russia’s RT became the target of CIA, FBI and NSA’s anticlimactic ‘Big Reveal’ »

Do read the declassified version of the text (14/25 pages – ICA_2017_01.pdf) – Background to “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections”, on Office of the Director of National Intelligence ODNI, Jan 6, 2016.

Find this ODNI report also:

• on YouTube-search;
• on Google News-search;

Continuer la lecture de « The Analytic Process and Cyber Incident Attribution »

Published on informed comment, by Juan Cole, Jan 7, 2017.

The hysteria about Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee servers and the phishing scam run on Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta, is short on evidence and high in self-righteousness. Much of the report issued Friday was old boilerplate about the Russia Today cable channel, which proves nothing. Continuer la lecture de « Those Times the NSA Hacked America’s Allies »

Published on Dissident Voice, by Kim Petersen, Jan 7, 2017: the absolutely essential distinction: wars of aggression are not equivalent to wars of self-defense – (part 1).

… Oppressors naturally dislike physical resistance; they prefer pacifism as it will not cause them physical harm. The pacifist arsenal is devoid of fighting fire with fire. There are two possible outcomes at play here: it would seem that pacifists believe that they can overcome their oppression through moral suasion or that their devotion to principles demands submission — living on bended knee over fighting for their rights and freedom. Continuer la lecture de « Ending Wars Requires Moral Conviction and the Courage for Revolution – Part 2 »

Published on Dissident Voice, by Paul Craig Roberts, Jan 6, 2017.

For many weeks we have witnessed the extraordinary attack by the CIA and its assets in Congress and the media on Donald Trump’s election. In an unprecedented effort to delegitimize Trump’s election as the product of Russian interference in the election, the CIA, media, senators and representatives have consistently made wild accusations for which they have no evidence. The CIA’s message to Trump is clear: Get in line with our agenda, or we are going to mess you over.   Continuer la lecture de « A Case Study in the Creation of False News »

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1350, by John Clarke, Jan 2, 2017.

Up until now, the concept of Basic Income BI has enjoyed a greater history of being proposed than of being implemented. We may well be approaching a period, however, when this changes. The Ontario Government is holding consultations on setting up a BI pilot project. The Legislature in another Canadian Province, Prince Edward Island, has agreed to test out a version of BI. Pilot projects are also impending in Finland, the Netherlands and Scotland … // Continuer la lecture de « Basic Income BI: Progressive Dreams Meet Neoliberal Realities »