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Published on truthout, by Henry A Giroux, Dec 2, 2013.

In the current historical moment, the line between fate and destiny is difficult to draw. Dominant power works relentlessly through its major cultural apparatuses to hide, mischaracterize or lampoon resistance, dissent and critically engaged social movements. This is done, in part, by sanitizing public memory and erasing critical knowledge and oppositional struggles from newspapers, radio, television, film and all those cultural institutions that engage in systemic forms of education and memory work.  Continuer la lecture de « Hope in the Age of Looming Authoritarianism »

Free Energy, ET’s and Freeing Humanity from the NWO, 82.33 min, (with Steven Greer), uploaded by Revolutionize TV,  July 5, 2013: Steven M. Greer, MD is Founder of The Disclosure Project, The Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) and The Orion Project.
He is the author of four books and multiple DVDs on the UFO/ET subject. He teaches groups throughout the world how to make peaceful contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, and continues to research bringing truly alternative energy sources out to the public.  Continuer la lecture de « The Sirius Film »

… to advance $1.2 billion debt relief plan – Published on Russia Today RT, Dec 1, 2013.

Iceland’s government has announced that it will be writing off up to 24,000 euros ($32,600) of every household’s mortgage, fulfilling its election promise, despite overwhelming criticism from international financial institutions.

The measure was introduced by the country’s prime minister, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, the leader of the Progressive Party which won the late-April elections on a promise of household debt relief.   Continuer la lecture de « Iceland thumbs nose at international opposition … »

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Bartholomäus Grill in Bagamayo, Tanzania, Nov 29, 2013. (Photo Gallery).

Chinese companies have pumped billions into Africa to secure access to natural resources, boosting countries’ economies along the way. Ordinary citizens aren’t reaping the benefits, though, and have become increasingly wary of the new investors.

In a three-part series, SPIEGEL is exploring fundamental changes occurring in Africa – a continent the West has long written off, but is now being embraced by other countries. This is Part I of the series. An introduction can be read here.   Continuer la lecture de « Billions from Beijing: Africans Divided over Chinese Presence, Part 1 »

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 902, by Charles Smith, November 28, 2013.

The neoliberal assault on labour has now entered its fourth decade. While Canada’s labour union density continues to hover around thirty percent, that number hides declining density rates in the private sector. Equally concerning for the labour movement has been the long assault on the post-war labour freedoms to organize, bargain, and strike. As Leo Panitch and Donald Swartz have shown in their book, governments routinely seek to limit labour’s core freedoms, especially the right to strike. When Stephen Harper’s government claimed that the fragility of the Canadian economy was justification to take away the right of thousands of federal workers to strike, it became clear that strikes themselves were in danger of being legislated away … // Continuer la lecture de « Privacy and the Right to Strike in Canada »