former title: Politics for the 99% – then under world-citizenship.org – encore en reconstruction
Result: the Unconditional Basic Income UBI – on SWI swissinfo.ch, June 5, 2016 – 17:18: rejected with 76.9% NO, only 23.1% can imagine in these times such a realization.
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Basic Income BIG – Revenu de Base Universel RBU – Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen BGE, special posts during 2015-2016 on this blog: Continuer la lecture de « Result of the Swiss Votation about BIG/RBU/BGE »
Published on Dissident Voice, by Gary Brumback, June 2, 2016.
I was prompted to write this article when a twitter contact of mine wondered whether some of my writings about the corpocracy amounted to a conspiracy theory. Having been a behavioral scientist most of my adult life I know a thing or two about what’s theory and what’s not. I don’t know how anyone, scientist or lay person, could mistake the corpocracy for a theory. Continuer la lecture de « America’s Corpocracy: Conspiracy Theory or Conspiracy Reality? »
Published on The Guardian, by Patrick Collison, June 1, 2016.
Attempts to convince the public they will be worse off if Britain leaves the EU are falling on deaf ears, according to an Ipsos Mori poll that shows two-thirds of the electorate don’t foresee any negative impact on their personal finances from Brexit. Continuer la lecture de « Brexit: two-thirds foresee no negative impact on their finances »
Published on truthout, by Dahr Jamail, May 31, 2016.
It’s not news that anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD) is accelerating at unprecedented rates, according to climate scientists. Fifteen of the 16 hottest years ever recorded have occurred since 2000, and this year is on track to be the hottest year ever recorded — by far … // Continuer la lecture de « Mangroves in Crisis: Why One Man Works to Save the Plants That Fight Climate Disruption »
Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1262, by Patrick Bond, May 31, 2016.
On May 12, Brazil’s democratic government, led by the Workers’ Party (PT), was the victim of a coup. What will the other BRICS countries (Russia, India, China, and South Africa) do? Will they stand by as the reactionaries who took power in Brasilia pivot closer to Western powers, glad to warm Dilma Rousseff’s seat at the BRICS summit in Goa, India in five months’ time? Or take a stronger line, following the lead of Latin American progressive countries (Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua and El Salvador)? … // Continuer la lecture de « Imperialism’s Junior Partners »
related articles published during May 2016: (continuously updated …) Continuer la lecture de « Basic Income BIG – Revenu de Base – Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen BGE, May 1-31, 2016 »
Published on Spiegel Online International, by Matthias Gebauer, Christiane Hoffmann, Peter Müller, Ruben Rehage, Michael Sauga and Christoph Schult, May 30, 2016.
Standing tough on Russia remains official policy, but Germany has begun working on the careful easing of sanctions imposed following Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine. The US is opposed, but many in the EU could support the new approach … //
… Chancellery Changing Course: Continuer la lecture de « Step-by-Step Rapprochement – Germany Considers Easing of Russia Sanctions »
Published on Social Europe, by Daniel Munevar, May 27, 2016.
A new agreement has been reached between Greece and its creditors regarding its bailout program. Jeroen Dijsselbloem, president of the Eurogroup, has described it as “ambitious” and a “major breakthrough”. However, a look at the details shows that it’s anything but. Continuer la lecture de « The Latest Greek Deal: an Excel Sheet Fantasy »
Published on The Telegraph.co.uk, by PETER FOSTER, EUROPE EDITOR, May 27, 2016.
They think it’s all over…and to judge by the recent spate of pro-Remain polls on the EU Referendum question, it pretty much is now. Continuer la lecture de « Five reasons why it's still worth a punt on Brexit »
Published on Spiegel Online International, by Riham Alkousaa, Giorgos Christides, Ann-Katrin Müller, Peter Müller, maximillian Popp, Christoph Schult and Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt, May 26, 2016.
Many viewed it with skepticism from the start and now, the Brussels-Ankara refugee deal is in danger of collapse. Refugees are being locked up in Turkey and it looks as though the best educated Syrians are not being allowed to continue to Europe. Continuer la lecture de « Disaster in the Makin, the Many Failures of the EU-Turkey Refugee Deal »
… America and the world in 2016 and beyond – Published on New Politics, by Joanne Landy, May 20, 2016 (will appear in the Summer 2016 issue of New Politics).
… BERNIE SANDERS
The Sanders campaign has been a breath of fresh air on the American political scene. Bernie has taken into the political arena the Occupy movement’s outrage at the domination of the United States by the one percent. Whether or not he wins the nomination, his astounding success is a sign of the real potential for a new kind of politics in the country—inspiring whether or not one shares his Democratic Party strategy … // Continuer la lecture de « The Foreign Policies of Sanders, Trump, and Clinton »
… the Lehman Brothers case – Published on VOX EU.org, by Thomas Gehrig, May 25, 2016.
During normal operations, price discovery is an important feature of decentralised market trading. But the process can be distorted when markets are under great stress, such as during the run up to the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. This column uses trading data from the days leading up to and following the collapse to show that price discovery at US stock exchanges remained remarkably efficient, even at the height of the turmoil. Continuer la lecture de « Price discovery during anomalous market trading »
… leaked tapes [VIDEO, 5.45 min] – Published on RT, May 23, 2016.
Secret phone recordings between Brazil’s planning minister and the former president of Transperto have revealed that the minister suggested a “change” in the government to “stop the bleeding” caused by an investigation into Petrobras. Continuer la lecture de « Rousseff impeachment efforts a bid to stop oil corruption probe »
Published on Axis of Logic (first on teleSUR), by Pablo Vivanco, May 20, 2016;
For most, the decades of the 1970’s and 1980’s are regarded as a dark period for Latin America. Like Honduras and Paraguay, Brazil’s elites used the legislature against Dilma Rousseff. Is Venezuela next? Continuer la lecture de « Parliamentary Coups, the New Strategy of Latin America's Right »