Catégorie : Politics

Published on Political Violence @ a Glance, by Tijen Demirel-Pegg, April 20, 2016.

The killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York – and the subsequent failure to indict the police officers that killed them in 2014 – generated massive outrage across the United States. While large-scale protests were held in a number of cities, leaving pundits to wonder if Black Lives Matter was turning into a new civil rights movement, an unexpected event happened: two police officers were shot to death in New York on December 20, 2014, by a man who was allegedly outraged by the Brown and Garner cases. Continuer la lecture de « Communal Violence and the Demobilization of Protest Campaigns »

After Vote to Remove Brazil’s President, Key Opposition Figure Holds Meetings in Washington – Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1249, by Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman, David Miranda, April 20, 2016.

Brazil’s lower House of Congress on Sunday voted to impeach the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff, sending the removal process to the Senate. In an act of unintended though rich symbolism, the House member who pushed impeachment over the 342-vote threshold was Dep. Bruno Araújo, himself implicated by a document indicating he may have received illegal funds from the construction giant at the heart of the nation’s corruption scandal. Continuer la lecture de « Crisis in Brazil »

Panama Papers show world’s tax progress, We ultimately want transparency – OECD’s Gurria, 5.51 min, uploaded by slithereen guard, Apr 16, 2016;

AUDIOS: Weekly Economic Update with Richard Wolff – the latest 5 issues:

• uploaded by slithreen guard: April 15, 2016, 46.44 min; April 8, 2016, 55.18 min; April 1, 2016, 55.54 min;
• uploaded by MNN NYC: March 23, 2016, 58.02 min; March 17, 2016, 58.03 min;   Continuer la lecture de « different concerns »

some random contributions uploaded by WES:

Warwick Economics Summit February 2016:

• Eyal Winter Interview, 12.12 min;
• Michael Møller Interview, 5.30 min;
• The Great Depression of the 1930s, Lessons for Today – Nick Crafts, 37.07 min;   Continuer la lecture de « Warwick Economics Summits WES – 2014 to 2016 »

Publishde on Dissident Voice, by Paul Craig Roberts, April 16, 2016.

On April 14 Syria held parliamentary elections at 7,000 polling stations, keeping the voting open an extra five hours to accommodate the massive turnout. All were allowed to vote, even displaced Syrians from the two provinces still terrorized by Washington and Israeli backed ISIS.   Continuer la lecture de « Syrian Elections prove again that Washington and its Presstitutes lie through their Teeth »