former title: Politics for the 99% – then under world-citizenship.org – encore en reconstruction
… Erdogan’s Chief Adversary and Public Enemy No. 1 – Publisched on Spiegel Online International, by Veit Medick and Roland Nelles, with additional reporting by Christoph Sydow, July 18, 2016.
In a meeting at his compound in Pennsylvania, Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen defends himself against claims made by Turkey’s president that he was behind this weekend’s failed coup. He alleges that power has poisoned Erdogan. Continuer la lecture de « A Visit with Fethullah Gülen »
Published on Intrepid Report (first in Wayne Madsen Report ), by Wayne Madsen, July 15, 2016.
The “Queen of Surveillance,” UK Home Secretary Theresa May, has assumed the office of prime minister. May is a longtime champion of every form of intrusive surveillance that ever came before her desk at the Home Office. For Britain, what is already the world’s leading high-tech surveillance state will now move closer to George Orwell’s dystopian futuristic Britain, a country he dubbed “Airstrip One.” Continuer la lecture de « Big Mother takes over helm of UK »
Published on Current Concerns, by Professor Richard A. Werner, D. Phil. (Oxon), July 12, 2016.
Concerning the second question, the dominant issue in the debate has been the question whether there will be a significant negative economic impact on the UK from exiting the EU. Prime Minister David Cameron, together with the heads of the IMF, the OECD and various EU agencies have given dire warnings that economic growth will drop, the fiscal position will deteriorate, the currency will weaken and UK exports will decline precipitously. George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer has threatened to cut pensions if pensioners dare to vote for exit. But what are the facts? Continuer la lecture de « EU BASICS – your Guide to the UK Referendum on EU Membership »
… for Those Who Know Little or Nothing about Labor – Published on ZNet (first on Green Social Thought), by Kim Scipes, July 15, 2016.
… Perhaps the most important part of the Introduction is that I disentangle the concepts of globalization and neo-liberal economics, about which there is much confusion. Influenced strongly by and following the work of the Netherlands-born scholar, Jan Nederveen Pieterse (1989, 2004, 2008, 2015), I argue that globalization has existed for a very long time—since the beginning of human migration—and precedes capitalism, modernity and “the West.” Continuer la lecture de « Building Global Labor Solidarity Today »
… the Child Laborers from Syria – Published on Spiegel Online International, by Claas Relotius, July 14, 2016 (Photo Gallery).
Ahmed and Alin were 10 and 11 years old when their parents died in Aleppo. They fled to Turkey and now work there as child laborers — collecting scrap and working in a sweat shop. They dream of escape, but don’t know how … // Continuer la lecture de « The Story of Ahmed and Alin: Syrian Orphans Trapped in Turkey – part 1 »
Published on Dissident Voice, by Binoy Kampmark, July 13, 2016.
The slimmest of hopes, which got extremely threadbare in the last month, was nursed that Bernie Sanders might have taken his support base and made it into a third movement. A US political scene so typified by the banking retainers, the counterfeit pioneers and fraudulent managers, could have done with a new force. Continuer la lecture de « Bernie Sanders: The End of a Campaign »
Update: Theresa May to hand out more jobs in first cabinet, on BBC, July 14, 2016: Prime Minister Theresa May will continue to form her new government later – as she begins her first full day in Downing Street; more on Google Web-search, Google News-search, and on YouTube-search;
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Published on Dissident Voice, by Ramzy Baroud, July 12, 2016.
Last year, I wrote an article that made many readers unhappy. As soon as it was published, I began receiving messages of abuse and angry, threatening calls. Continuer la lecture de « Being Black Palestinian: Solidarity as a Welcome Pathology »
Published on Labor Notes.org, by Jane Slaughter, July 07, 2016.
Three big wins for workers in the last nine months arrived where you might least expect them: in the old, blue-collar economy. That’s the economy where unions are down to 6.7 percent, where wins are rare and workers are supposed to be on their way out. Continuer la lecture de « Three Recent Wins Prove Old-Fashioned Union Power Isn’t Dead Yet »
… Oligarchs, Bankers and Swindlers – Published on Axis of Logic, by James Petras, July 9, 2016;
Introduction: amid raging corruption, social pathologies and outright political thuggery, a new gang of vassal regimes has taken-over Latin America. The new rulers are strictly recruited as the protégé’s of US financial and banking institutions. Hence the financial press refers to them as the “new managers” – of Wall Street … // Continuer la lecture de « Washington’s ‘New Managers’ in Latin America »
Published on Elohim Leaks.org, on July 8, 2016.
The 60 richest people on Earth are now secretly building an underground complex that can withstand any nuclear, chemical or biological world war or world revolution. This complex will have room for the 60 richest people and their families for a total of 480 people; plus 240 top scientists, especially geneticists and agronomists; 60 medical people representing all the specialties; 120 military commandos … // … and 60 of the most beautiful young women to repopulate the earth after the cataclysm ends and the atmosphere is clean again … // Continuer la lecture de « Secret Underground Complex »
Published on Systemic Disorder, July 6, 2016.
The most tepid of blows for democracy was struck this week when the president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, reversed himself and declared that the parliaments of the EU member states will vote on the “free trade” deal with Canada after all. Only a week earlier, President Juncker had dismissed the idea of any democratic input, insisting that the deal would be unilaterally approved by EU ministers … // Continuer la lecture de « CETA’s specter of corporate dictatorship still haunts Canada and the EU »
Published on Axis of Logic, by Roger D. Harris, CounterPunch, July 6, 2016.
US policy since Hugo Chávez was elected president of Venezuela in 1998 has been regime change to return the oil-rich South American nation to the neo-liberal fold. After 17 years of Chávista polices, the US wants nothing more than for poor Venezuelans to suffer as much as possible – to make their economy scream – so that the popular movement will grow dissatisfied with the socialist inclined leadership. Continuer la lecture de « Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: If Chávez were Alive Today, would the Situation in Venezuela be Different? »
Is Russia Winning The Oil Export War Against The Saudis? – Published on Oil Price, by Zainab Calcuttawala, July 05, 2016: Zainab Calcuttawala is an American journalist based in Morocco. She completed her undergraduate coursework at the University of Texas at Austin (Hook’em) and reports on international trade, human rights issues and more;
Russia is on track to set a new record in crude oil exports this year, and Iran is boosting exports to Europe, intensifying competition on the continent, which is a key market for both countries. Continuer la lecture de « on Russia/Putin – US related to Big Oil – Mafia worldwide »
Published on The Bullet No. 1277, by Ingar Solty, June 30, 2016.
Critical remarks on the new post-“Brexit” strategy paper by Sigmar Gabriel and Martin Schulz. Continuer la lecture de « After Brexit, a Social-Democratic Re-Founding of Europe? »