Catégorie : Politics

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1237, by Alfredo Saad Filho, March 23, 2016.

Every so often, the bourgeois political system runs into crisis. The machinery of the state jams; the veils of consent are torn asunder and the tools of power appear disturbingly naked. Brazil is living through one of those moments: it is dreamland for social scientists; a nightmare for everyone else. Continuer la lecture de « Brazil: Overthrowing Dilma Rousseff »

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Melanie Amann, Matthias Bartsch, Sven Becker, Markus Feldenkirchen, Jan Fleischhauer, Ralf Neukirch, René Pfister, Josef Saller and Katja Thimm, March 21, 2016 (Photo Gallery).

The success of the right-wing populist party AfD in recent state elections has shaken Germany. It is the expression of growing hatred of the elite among an expanding share of the population. Much of their anger is directed at Angela Merkel … // Continuer la lecture de « Fury and the AfD: Inside the Revolt against Angela Merkel »

• The Proposed Bank of England Act, on The Monney Reform Party.org.uk; /News: This is a reform that could prevent a future financial crisis, clear the national debt, and restart the economy;  /Join us;
• Positive Money.org: Is money at the root of today’s big problems? 3.20 min; (also on YouTube);
• How Money is Made / Created (full length), 52.01 min, uploaded by Positive Money;
• another YouTube channel: The basics you need to know about money and banking, with 4 videos;   Continuer la lecture de « money of dept vs. positive money = what is vs. what should be »

… économiste HEC – ancien secrétaire général du Crédit Sisse

François de Siebenthal explique l’arnaque de la création monétaire dans sa conférence du 12 juillet 2015:

• Version courte, 8.01 min, mise en ligne par Chantal Mino ps.éd.;
• Version longue, mise en ligne par Thomas Wroblevski: part 1, 36.02 min; part 2, 10.52 min;

Continuer la lecture de « Est-ce que l'argent nous appartient … ou nous à l'argent? »

Published on Voltairenet.org, by Can Dündar, March 19, 2016.

The editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet, Can Dündar, who was recently freed from prison, published the op-ed column in Le Monde that we are reproducing here. He reveals the stakes of the agreement negotiated between the European Union and Turkey – not to have to assume the consequences of the deliberate destabilisation of Syria in exchange for 3 billion Euros per year and ignoring the dictatorship which is currently being set up by Ankara. Continuer la lecture de « The European Union has abandoned those who are defending freedom in Turkey »