former title: Politics for the 99% – then under world-citizenship.org – encore en reconstruction
UK: three in ten UK Bangladeshi households are overcrowded, on Left Foot Forward, by Ruby Stockham, June 20, 2015: Latest government figures show the impact soaring house prices are having on living conditions. New figures published today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that in 2011, home ownership fell for the first time in almost a century;
The ’joke of the decade’, on Kashmir and IDPs, by K.N. Pandita, June 20, 2015; Continuer la lecture de « today these concerns »
Published on Russia Today RT, June 19, 2015.
The sanctions imposed by the EU against Russia and Moscow’s retaliation would cost Europeans 100 billion euros in economic development and jeopardize up to 2.5 million jobs, a new study said. Continuer la lecture de « Anti-Russian sanctions hurt Europe harder than expected, threaten 2.5 Mio jobs – study »
Published on Dissident Voice, by Binoy Kampmark, June 16, 2015.
Idolatry is the natural consequence of abuse and disregard. Forget something, and revere it. Edification entails that no regard need be had to substance. When human rights conventions make it into the political argot, cited by the very individuals who are controlled by them, we know that a degree of amnesia and calculation has set in. They are the last ones who are interested in what those documents enshrine. Continuer la lecture de « The Magna Carta – eight hundred years of forgetting »
Published on Spiegel Online International, by Marco Evers and Laura Höflinger, June 15, 2015 (Photo Gallery).
A new consensus is emerging that bans on cannabis are counterproductive. Across the world, countries are legalizing its use for pleasure and medical treatment – but Germany still lags behind … // Continuer la lecture de « Legal Highs: Welcome to the Cannabis Revolution – part 1 »
Published on Dissident Voice, by David Swanson, June 15, 2015.
I’m not sure if there’s been a better written book published yet this year than Ukraine: Zbig’s Grand Chessboard and How the West Was Checkmated, but I’m confident there’s not been a more important one … // Continuer la lecture de « Ukraine and the Apocalyptic Risk of Propagandized Ignorance »