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Published on ASIA TIMES, by ASIA UNHEDGED China, Jan 21, 2016.

The People’s Bank of China BPOC on Wednesday said it wants to issue its own digital currency to cut the costs of circulating traditional paper money, boost policymakers’ control of money supply and improve the efficiency of global transactions.

The central bank set up a research team in 2014 to study digital currencies and application scenarios, according to a statement posted on the regulator’s website.   Continuer la lecture de « China’s central bank mulls issuing digital currency »

How to kill the demos: the water struggle in Italy

Published on ZNet (first on Roarmag.org), by Andrea Muehlebach, January 20, 2016.

On November 28, 2015, water activists from the Southern Italian region of Campania staged a massive protest in the city of Naples. Some 5,000 water activists and environmentalists, trade unionists and workers from Naples’ water works protested a recently passed regional law that aims to centralize water management and set the stage for water privatization … // Continuer la lecture de « How to kill the demos: the water struggle in Italy »

Published on ZNet, by Paul Rubin, Jan 18, 2016.

The labor movement in this country is in deep crisis. All too many unions are losing members, confronting deteriorating job conditions, and fighting defensive battles. One would think that labor in conservative, right-to-work states would be in the worst shape of all. But this is not necessarily so. One union local in historically conservative Arizona has continued to grow not just in size but, more importantly, in influence. I believe there are lessons here for labor activists across the nation … //

… Internal Organizing/Education: Continuer la lecture de « Whither Unions? – Organizing Lessons from a Right-To-Work State »

… and How Not to Be Fooled – Published on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, Jan 17, 2016; (first by Larry Schwartz on AlterNet).

… Americans, as P.T. Barnum once noted, are not all that difficult to fool, and our nation’s somewhat weak math skills don’t help. A Pew Research Center report issued last year, which studied test results of 15-year-olds, ranked the United States 35th in the world in math. Not only has this weakness in understanding numbers created opportunities for mass exploitation by Big Pharma and other industries, it has led to needless and mostly unwarranted fear. While Americans don’t understand math, be assured that corporations do, and they happily use it to mislead and obfuscate in the name of selling their products.   Continuer la lecture de « How Corporations and Politicians Lie With Numbers »

• The Costs of Capitalism’s Crisis, Who Will Pay? 95.00 min, uploade by Joe Friendly, Jan 27, 2012;
• Marxian Economics vs Capitalism with Economist Prof. Richard D. Wolff, 37.31 min, uploaded by TYT Interviews, Aug 4, 2014 … Professor Richard D. Wolff. is one of the world’s leading Marxian economists and is a professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, where he taught from 1973 to 2008. He is also currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York. He is also a founding member of the Green Party of New Haven Connecticut, is the host of Economic Update, at WBAI in New York City, and has co-authored 13 books, most recently « Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism » in 2012 …;
• MALAYSIA: Budget 2016 revision not austerity measures, says Wahid, on The Edge Markets, by Kamarul Anwar, by Simeon Kerr, Jan 19, 2016;
• Spain’s deadlocked parliament a reflection of the crisis of the regime, on In Defense of Marxism, by Jorge Martin, Jan 18, 2016;
• Unions, Kirchnerite leaders blast austerity measures, repression, on Buenos Aires Herald, Jan 11, 2016.

Published on The Atlantic, by Molly Ball, Jan 16, 2016.

The Working Families Party has pushed the political debate to the left in the states where it’s already active. Now—in the era of Occupy and Bernie Sanders—it’s ready to take that fight nationwide.

At a recent private dinner in Manhattan, a small group of leftists plotted to take over America.   Continuer la lecture de « The Pugnacious, Relentless Progressive Party That Wants to Remake America »

• Global Capitalism – Monthly Economic Update January 2016, 91.48 min, uploaded by Richard D Wolff, Jan 13, 2016;
• Days of Revolt, the Making of Global Capitalism, 25.01 min, uploaded by teleSUR english, Sept 7, 2015;
• Audio: truthout on the radio – a critique of capitalism – Richard Wolff, uploaded by Kinda Gamey, March 26, 2014: Part 1, 22.55 min; Part 2, 8.42 min;
• The Crisis of Global Capitalism, ten years on – Prof John Gray, 88.29 min, uploaded by London School of Economics and Political Science LSE, Dec 17, 2010;   Continuer la lecture de « Global Capitalism »

Uploaded by The Big Picture RT:

• Full Show 1/14/16: Why Are the Clintons Attacking Bernie’s Single-Payer Plan? 30.50 min, Jan 14, 2016 … Thom discusses the real reason why the Clintons are attacking Bernie’s single-payer health care plan …;
• Has The Crash of 2016 Now Begun? What Can & Should Be Done? 7.36 min, Jan 5, 2016 … Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work, goes off on the state of the economy …;

von ANTIZENSURKOALITION AZK hochgeladen: Continuer la lecture de « The Big Lies / die grossen Lügen »

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Christoph Reuter in Korin, Syria, Jan 13, 2016 (Photo Gallery).

Even as war continues to rage in Syria, normal people in the country are doing their best to survive in places like the village of Korin. It has transformed into a kind of mini-republic and has WiFi on the town square. But its population is slowly dwindling. Continuer la lecture de « Mini-Republics: A Syrian Village Seeks to Survive amid Carnage »

Uplpaded by Deutsches Haus:

• Slavoj Žižek: Is Hegel Dead—Or Are We Dead in the Eyes of Hegel? 194.00 min, Oct 30, 2015 … a Hegelian View of the Present Age. Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Department of German at NYU present a talk by Slavoj Žižek, Global Distinguished Professor of German at NYU … Introduced by Avital Ronell, Professor of German and Comparative Literature at NYU …;
• Slavoj Žižek: The Hegelian Wound, 121.21 min, Sept 26, 2014;
• German Idealism and Psychoanalysis, with Slavoj Zizek, Alenka Zupancic, Mladen Dolar – Part 1, 10.26 min, May 7, 2012 … followed by parts 2 to 5 in autoplay;

Continuer la lecture de « Slavoj Žižek on Hegel and us today »

Published on ZNet (first on Other Worlds), by Mphatheleini Makaulele, Simone Adler and Beverly Bell, Jan 9, 2016.

… Everybody originated with indigenous ways of living and the way of Mother Earth.

The real role of women is in the seed. It is the women who harvest, select, store, and plant seeds. Our seeds come from our mothers and our grandmothers. To us, the seed is the symbol of the continuity of life. Seed is not just about the crops. Seed is about the soil, about the water, and about the forest.   Continuer la lecture de « African Women Organize To Reclaim Agriculture Against Corporate Takeover »

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Matthias Bartsch and Anna Clauß, Jan 5, 2016.

Absurd, unfounded reports about asylum seekers are circulating on German social media. They are part of a targeted misinformation campaign by right-wing extremists designed to instill fear and stoke anti-migrant sentiment. But where do the stories come from?   Continuer la lecture de « The Case of the Murdered Goats, exploring Germany's Far-Right Rumor Mill »

• [UPDATE: Union fees in jeopardy (in Plain English), on SCOTUSblog, by Amy Howe, Jan 11, 2016
• Evening round-up: Today’s argument in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, on SCOTUSblog, by Molly Runkle on Jan 11, 2016].

… Supreme Court Case – Published on Common Dreams, by Sarah Lazare, Jan 8, 2016 (the Case could result in the enforcement of ‘Right to Work’ laws on all public sector labor unions in the United States).

Workers across the United States are bracing for a major Supreme Court case, set for argument on Monday, that could strike a devastating blow to public sector unions nationwide.   Continuer la lecture de « Under-the-Radar Supreme Court Case Poses Profound Threat to Unions Nationwide »

Published on People’s World, by John Bachtell, Jan 8, 2016.

The hateful and reactionary ideas spewing from the mouths of the Republican Party candidates confront us with the clear and present danger we would face next November were any one of them to be elected president … // Continuer la lecture de « USA: Republican victory in 2016 would strengthen new patrimonial oligarchy »