former title: Politics for the 99% – then under world-citizenship.org – encore en reconstruction
Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s e-bulletin no. 1065, by Ursula Huws, Jan 6, 2015.
In these straitened times, the idea of a basic income, granted unconditionally to every citizen, from cradle to grave, feels utopian. How on earth could it be paid for, we wonder. Wouldn’t everyone just stop working? Where would we be then? … // Continuer la lecture de « An Unconditional Citizen's Income »
Published on Global Research.ca (first on WSWS), by Andre Damon, Jan 6, 2015.
As the New Year begins, the social crisis gripping tens of millions of working people in the United States is worsening. Hunger, poverty and long-term joblessness remain at the highest levels in decades, while vital social services continue to be slashed.
One would never know this from reading the press, watching the evening news, or listening to the statements of politicians. The official discourse is dominated by the supposed revival of the American economy, characterized by record corporate profits and stock prices. The fact that the great majority of the population finds it increasingly difficult to make ends meet finds no reflection in the media or official politics. Continuer la lecture de « The State of American Society as 2015 Begins »
Published on ZNet, by Bill Fletcher, Jan 6, 2015 (first published on Billfletcher.com).
In every vibrant progressive social movement there comes a moment when a psychologically or emotionally disturbed person, an agent provocateur, or a political extremist commits an atrocious act that is seized upon by the State and/or the political Right as a means of attempting to discredit or outright repress the movement. The action, committed for whatever reason, is sufficiently heinous that confusion develops within the movement and the movement can lose both its momentum as well as a segment of its less committed or more ambivalent supporters. Continuer la lecture de « On the NYC Police Killings & the Haymarket Massacre »
Published on Axis of Logic (first on Global Research and on teleSUR english), by Peter Koenig, Jan 3, 2015.
The world is still hell-bent for hydrocarbon-based energy. Russia is the world’s largest producer of energy. Russia has recently announced that in the future she will no longer trade energy in US dollars, but in rubles and currencies of the trading partners. In fact, this rule will apply to all trading.
Russia and China are detaching their economies from that of the western financial system. To confirm this decision, in July 2014 Russia’s Gazprom concluded a 400 billion gas deal with China, and in November this year they signed an additional slightly smaller contract – all to be nominated in rubles and yuans. Continuer la lecture de « Economy: Free falling ruble – a brilliant Russian ploy »
Published on ZNet, by Paul Street (writer and activist in Iowa City, Iowa), Jan 4, 2015.
… One day in my office I asked a colleague at the organization why our chief executive behaved in the selfish and irresponsible ways he did. My colleague responded with a question: “Dr. Street, why does a dog lick its balls?”
I confessed I didn’t know. The answer: “Because it can.”
My colleague’s point was that nobody with any power was telling our CEO was setting any boundaries on his behavior. He was being rewarded again and again, from year to year, with an outrageously high salary, an agency limousine, and positions on various corporate boards.
Thinking of that exchange the other day, I was reminded of something that Thomas Jefferson wrote to his fellow Virginian, the American solider and statesman Edward Carrington from Paris in the late 1780s. “If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs,” Jefferson wrote, “you and I and Congress and Assemblies, Judges, Governor, shall all become wolves.” Continuer la lecture de « Because We Let Them »
Published on Intrepid Report, by Rodrigue Tremblay, Jan 2, 2015.
Dear visitors, Happy 2015 for all. (The troubles about my computer AND my internet connection are over, let’s begin 2015 with new energy, for today with a long article on economy, and with a big bunch of links, mainly from the last days).
… These days, militaristic neoconservatives, or neocons, have near complete control of the American government under the façade of whoever is president at the time. They direct U.S. policies at the State Department, at the Pentagon, at the U.S. Treasury and at the Fed central bank. They are thus in position to influence and frame American foreign policy, military policy, economic and financial policies and monetary policy. Continuer la lecture de « 2015: a pivotal year for economic and financial crises and wars? »
Pat Metheny – Newport Jazz Festival Oct 8, 2003, FULL, 56.48 min, uploaded by Music Vault, Nov 14, 2014 … and many other videos in autoplay.
Tournée des enfoirés 1989, 99.14 min, uploaded by maiseuhdisdonc, Nov 23, 2014.
Sorry, our famous Swiss efficiency is crashing, when you are ordered to change the Internet provider, what happens to me:
My actual provider announces rather too late his sudden retirement from Switzerland, my next, the big Swiss company, cannot solve connection problems before the first days next year … if really. So I am still out of my own internet access, telephone fix and numeric TV …
… ok, for me a possibility for less work and desintoxicate as workaholic, with the hope you enjoy the music you may find meanwhile every day. As soon as our Swiss efficiency finishes his winter sleep we will meet again with longer articles and links.
Meanwhile all the best wishes for 2015!
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Uploaded by Flora Sholem, different dates:
Best Celtic Music, 159.14 min, uploaded by Relax Night and Day, June 29, 2014.
Medieval Instrumental Music, 61.40 min, uploadede by Derek & Brandon Fiechter, August 13, 2014.