Catégorie : Politics

(my comment: not only, but I agree with the rest – Heidi) – Published on Left Foot Forward, by KUNWAR SHAHID, August 11, 2014.

While it would be ridiculous to allow the West the moral high ground, it is even more absurd for the Muslim world to transfer the responsibility for ISIS on to the West.

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is emulating al Qaeda, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Boko Haram and pretty much every single Sunni Islamist militant organisation in the world by taking up arms vying to establish a regional – and eventually global – caliphate.   Continuer la lecture de « The responsibility for ISIS doesn’t lie with the West »

Press release: On the frontiers of cyborg science: … published on Nanotechnology Now, Aug 10, 2014.

Abstract: Nanoscale materials enable unique opportunities at the interface between the physical and life sciences, and the interfaces between nanoelectronic devices and cells, cell networks, and tissue makes possible communication between these systems at the length scale relevant to biological function. Continuer la lecture de « Nanoelectronics meets biology: From new tools to electronic therapeutics »

Published on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, August 10, 2014.

This is a terrific and very accessible interview with Boston College professor Ed Kane, who is a long-standing critic of the failure to rein in financial firms that feed at the taxpayer trough. At one point in the talk, Kane and his interviewer Marshall Auerback discuss how casinos are well aware of the fact that the house can lose and they monitor gamblers intensively to make sure that no one is engaging is sleight of hand. Thus if we treated our banking system like the financial casino that it has become, we’d be much better off than we are now. Continuer la lecture de « A Financial Casino Would Be a Step Up From What We Have »

Published on Dissident Voice, by Binoy Kampmark, August 8, 2014.

It is sometimes hard to know whether those in power adopt a policy of confusion purposely, or through grand design. When it comes to the flawed policy of data retention on a mass scale, a burden that is bound to fall on telecommunications companies, the problem is most acute of all. What is to be kept? What falls within that broad term metadata? Continuer la lecture de « Gluttons of Information: The Metadata Confusion in Oz »

Published on Counterpunch, by GARETH PORTER, Aug 5, 2014.

For most of the last five decades, it has been assumed that the Tonkin Gulf incident was a deception by Lyndon Johnson to justify war in Vietnam. But the U.S. bombing of North Vietnam on August 4, 1964 in retaliation for an alleged naval attack that never happened — and the Tonkin Gulf Resolution that followed was not a move by LBJ to get the American people to support a U.S. war in Vietnam.   Continuer la lecture de « Pushing LBJ Into War: Robert S. McNamara and the Real Tonkin Gulf Deception »

Published on TomDispatch, by Noam Chomsky, August 5, 2014.

… On August 7, 1945, a previous age was ending and a new one was dawning. In the nuclear era, city-busting weapons would be a dime a dozen and would spread from the superpowers to many other countries, including Great Britain, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel. Targeted by the planet’s major nuclear arsenals would be the civilian inhabitants not just of single cities but of scores and scores of cities, even of the planet itself. On August 6th, 70 years ago, the possibility of the apocalypse passed out of the hands of God or the gods and into human hands, which meant a new kind of history had begun whose endpoint is unknowable, though we do know that even a “modest” exchange of nuclear weapons between India and Pakistan would not only devastate South Asia, but thanks to the phenomenon of nuclear winter also cause widespread famine on a planetary scale.   Continuer la lecture de « Why National Security Has Nothing to Do With Security »

The self-serving con of neoliberalism s that it has eroded the human values the MARKET was supposed to emancipate – Published on The Guardian, by George Monbiot, Aug 5, 2014.

To be at peace with a troubled world: this is not a reasonable aim. It can be achieved only through a disavowal of what surrounds you. To be at peace with yourself within a troubled world: that, by contrast, is an honourable aspiration. This column is for those who feel at odds with life. It calls on you not to be ashamed.

I was prompted to write it by a remarkable book, just published in English, by a Belgian professor of psychoanalysis, Paul Verhaeghe.   Continuer la lecture de « Sick of this market-driven world? You should be »

Man tested for Ebola in NYC – Published on Russia Today RT, August 04, 2014.

A man in New York City was tested for Ebola after traveling to West Africa. The news comes shortly after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced it will send 50 staffers to the region over the next month to combat the deadly outbreak.

Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan performed tests on the male patient with high fever and gastrointestinal symptoms, the hospital said in a statement. He arrived in the emergency room Monday morning, and had previously traveled to one of the West African countries where Ebola has been reported.   Continuer la lecture de « 50 US experts head to West Africa to contain outbreak of Ebola »

Published on ViceNews, by Angela Hennessy, July 31, 2014.

Last week, the Canadian government announced that the Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA) had removed 20 members of a massive human trafficking gang from Canada and deported them back to their native Hungary. The Domotor-Kolompar crime ring — headed by kingpin Fernec Domotor — was busted up in 2010 when a victim escaped and told authorities about the atrocities he and 18 others were enduring. The case is the largest known human trafficking ring in Canadian history, exposing a problem in Canada that reaches far beyond this Hungarian crime family.   Continuer la lecture de « Human trafficking is rampant in Canada »

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Marianne Wellershoff, July 30, 2014 (12 Photo in the Gallery).

Vegetables for all and second-hand treasures: Smart design doesn’t just look good — it also seeks to do good. That’s why we’re launching the Orange Social Design Award, to be bestowed on ideas that look great and improve life in the city

Ok, let’s assume you have a few things lying around your house that you no longer need but still might be useful to others. A table lamp, a vase or a book, for example. You could give them away to friends or sell them on Ebay. You might also consider throwing them away.   Continuer la lecture de « The Orange Social Design Award: help us make our cities more liveable »

Russia and China are working together … the Global de-dollarization (Ep 375), 38.01 min, uploaded by econews, July 29, 2014 … get economic collapse news throughout the day visit …;

Related Links:   Continuer la lecture de « global de-dollarization – World Bank whistleblower – money laundering »

Videos:

• Unions-Capitalism-Young Workers, uploaded by Mark Cunningham, Mai 26, 2014: part One, 52.27 min;  part Two, 51.37 min;
• Left Alternatives to Social Democracy, uploaded on YouTube by Left Streamed, March 29, 2014:
• part 1/4, 17.08 min, part 2/4, 16.55 min, part 3/4, 16.02 min, part 4/4, 20.30 min: … see also on Socialist Project.ca, March 16, 2014;
• Organizing Working Class Communities, part 2/2, 38.21 min, uploaded on YouTube by Left Streamed, March 28, 2014;
• Community Organizing in Greece, 22.15 min, uploaded by Workplace Democracy, March 20, 2014;     Continuer la lecture de « Worker's alternatives »

Russia Concerned by Reports of Kiev Using Ballistic Missiles in Eastern Ukraine, on en.RIA.ru, July 30, 2014.

… Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko Tuesday confirmed the country’s readiness to provide access to international experts to the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines passenger plane in Donetsk Region, declaring a unilateral ceasefire within a 20-kilometer (12-mile) radius. “Now, unfortunately, actions suggest the opposite: Donetsk, Luhansk and other villages in these regions are being shelled with Grad rocket launchers, artillery and tanks.”

On Tuesday, citing US officials CNN reported that Ukraine’s government troops used short-range ballistic missiles in the east. The weapons have a range of about 50 miles and pack warheads of up to 1,000 pounds.   Continuer la lecture de « think it is war … and nobody is going there … »

Published on Intrepid Report, by Ellen Brown, July 28, 2014.

One thing to be said for the women now heading the Federal Reserve and the IMF: compared to some of their predecessors, they are refreshingly honest … //

… Collapse or metamorphosis? … //

… About those derivatives: Continuer la lecture de « You can’t taper a Ponzi scheme: Time to reboot »