Catégorie : Politics

Malaysia must sue Goldman Sachs & all complicit banks

NAJIB Contagion, all hell set to break loose – Published on Malaysia Chronicle, by Sarawak Report, Feb 25, 2016.

The news today that Goldman Sachs has now formally acknowledged that its South East Asia Chairman, Tim Leissner, has indeed ‘left the bank’, sometime earlier this month, indicates they plan to make him their high level fall guy over the 1MDB imbroglio.

It’s not good enough.   Continuer la lecture de « Malaysia must sue Goldman Sachs & all complicit banks »

Offshoring Justice: David Hicks, Australia and the UN Human Rights Committee

Published on Dissident Voice, by Binoy Kampmark, Feb 25, 2016 (also on International Police Digest).

He always had a rough deal. He strayed as a young man, a situation that would have been perfectly acceptable if he had picked the approved rogue group or terrorist collective to vent his adolescent angst. Al Qaeda, and their Taliban hosts, were not on that list. Having fallen out of favour with the Oscar equivalent of good terrorist nominees, Australia’s David Hicks found himself in the dark, picked up in Afghanistan in November 2001 and conveyed to that terrestrial nightmare known as Guantánamo Bay soon after.   Continuer la lecture de « Offshoring Justice: David Hicks, Australia and the UN Human Rights Committee »

Syria/US/NATO – Kurds/Putin/Assad … which kind of peace?

  • Syrian Kurds accused of siding with Assad and Russia, 2-07 min, uploaded by Al Jazeera English, Feb 24, 2016;
  • Interview: Michael Gorbatschow über Putin, die Deutschen, Amerika, 3.49 min, von SpiegelTV (spoken in english, subtitled in german);
  • (my comment: there is nothing complicated: US/NATO-elites proclaim enemies being all those who not hate Putin resp Assad, but Putin / Assad will remain, thus US/NATO will never be able/willing for any peace. So, just tell them to leave the region … force them to go home … and make it, this damned peace. Syrians will be gratefull, more and more regret their trip to german’s paradise: for many because of the future underclass workplaces, for all the food-shock, for more than a few the women’s so-called not-so-much-submitted-behavior-shock. And most Germans will be gratefull for no more being overrun – Heidi);

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Women Can’t Wait, Repeal the 8th

… the Politics of Abortion and the Irish National Election – Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1225, by Carol-Anne Hudson, Feb 23, 2016.

Abortion is one of the defining issues of the 2016 national Irish election, yet a vast majority of candidates have declined to give their views on the controversial subject. 331 of the 392 candidates have not declared a position, 33 candidates have stated support for keeping the 8th Amendment, and another 28 candidates have stated that they want to repeal the 8th. Labour, Sinn Féin, the Greens, Social Democrats, and a number of Left Independents have pledged to hold a referendum to remove the “right to life” 8th Amendment from the Constitution, which prevents the liberalization of the state’s abortion laws … // Continuer la lecture de « Women Can’t Wait, Repeal the 8th »