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(two with english transcript … the rest in german):

uploaded on YouTube by ggwporg, March 2014:

• (written transcript in english and german): Leaked phonecall Timoshenko: « I’ll raise the whole world to reduce Russia », 2.21 min,  am 24. März 2014 hochgeladen: „Ich wäre bereit diesem Mistkerl (Putin) mit einem Maschinengewehr in den Kopf zu schießen. » „Wir müssen Waffen nehmen und diesen „Scheiss-Kazapen » (Russen) abknallen. » „Ich würde den Weg finden wie ich diese Arschlöcher platt machen würde ». (sie meint Krim). „Ich werde all meine Verbindungen nutzen und die ganze Welt gegen Rußland anstifften so dass von diesem Land nicht mal ausgebranntes Feld bleibt ». Auf die Frage was man mit 8 Millionen Russen machen soll die in der Ukraine leben, antwortet Timoschenko: „Wir sollen sie mit Atomwaffen vernichten » – (deutsch + english = for english click on the Transcript Icon):    Continuer la lecture de « March 2014: the Crimean crisis on YouTube – and some german-European voices »

Published on Intrepid Report, by Paul Craig Roberts, April 1, 2014.

… In the Genesis of the World War, Harry Elmer Barnes shows that World War 1 was the product of 4 or 5 people. Three stand out: Raymond Poincaré, president of France; Sergei Sazonov, Russian foreign minister; and Alexander Izvolski, Russian ambassador to France. Poincaré wanted Alsace-Lorraine from Germany, and the Russians wanted Istanbul and the Bosphorus Strait, which connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. They realized that their ambitions required a general European war and worked to produce the desired war.   Continuer la lecture de « Pushing toward the final war »

Published on Corriere della sera english, by Enrico Marro, Marzo 25, 2014 (English translation by Giles Watson).

Impeccably efficient and well worth a full bonus. Despite the best efforts of the then civil service minister Renato Brunetta, almost all public-sector managers in the top two pay bands managed to obtain assessments of more than 90% and pocket a full bonus. The Renzi government will now have to find a way to link earnings to results in its reform of public administration. But it will have to do more than that.   Continuer la lecture de « Italy: State Fat Cats’ Bonus Bonanza »

Published on World Socialist Web Site WSWS, by Christoph Dreiere, March 29, 2014.

A day after US President Barack Obama intensified NATO’s confrontation with Russia in Brussels, Germany’s second largest weekly newspaper, Die Zeit, has come out in favour of the reintroduction of compulsory military service.    Continuer la lecture de « German magazine Die Zeit calls for reintroduction of compulsory military service »

Development economics for the global north – Published on Dissident Voice, by New Unionism, March 29, 2014.

This week sees yet another make or break conference for the interminable Doha Round of World Trade Organization talks, writes network member Conor Cradden. This time it’s in Bali, and on the agenda (yet again) is breaking the deadlock about multilateral trade regulation (for a quick guide to what’s going on see this piece on the Guardian website).   Continuer la lecture de « Collective Industrial Relations »