former title: Politics for the 99% – then under world-citizenship.org – encore en reconstruction
Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Salah Nasrawi, Nov 26, 2015.
A tide of increased xenophobia in Europe in the aftermath of the Paris attacks is making refugees pawns in the debate over terrorism.
On a street corner in the upscale Cairo neighbourhood of Zamalek, a small crowd of visitors gathers outside the fortified building of the German embassy early in the morning on each working day. Continuer la lecture de « Scapegoating the refugees »
Published on naked capitalism (first on BBC), by Lambert Strether, Nov 27, 2015.
Here’s a little something to rouse you from your post-Thanksgiving torpor; the first part of a three-part 2004 series by Adam Curtis called “The Power of Nightmares.” The title seems strangely a propos, what?
See WikiPedia’s summary. Continuer la lecture de « The Power of Nightmares »
Published on International Business Times IBS, by Mark Piggott, Nov 26, 2015.
A former senior risk consultant at scandal-hit Royal Bank of Scotland RBS is reported to be planning to make a number of explosive allegations about deception and greed within the bank’s upper echelons, even as the 2008 financial crisis was underway. Victor Hong, based in the US, is set to appear in court in the UK as part of a major action being taken against the bank by its own shareholders. Continuer la lecture de « RBS: Whistleblower claims bank hid scale of losses prior to banking crisis to protect banker's bonuses »
Published on Dissident Voice, by Paul Craig Roberts, Nov 24, 2015.
… Turkey’s unprovoked shoot-down of a Russian military aircraft over Syria raises interesting questions. It seems unlikely that the Turkish government would commit an act of war against a much more powerful neighbor unless Washington had cleared the attack. Turkey’s government is not very competent, but even the incompetent know better than to put themselves into a position of facing Russia alone. Continuer la lecture de « Turkey Has Destroyed Russia’s Hope of Western Cooperation »
Published on ZNet, by Cal Winslow, Nov 24, 2015.
The therapists, counselors, and social workers at Kaiser Permanente in California have won a magnificent victory. In a last minute retreat, in the face of an open-ended strike, Kaiser, the giant California health care corporation, settled with 1400 workers and their union, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). Continuer la lecture de « When Workers Fight »
Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1188, by Panagiotis Sotiris, Nov 23, 2015.
… and No One Has Food – Published on Vice News, by Samuel Oakford, Nov 19, 2015.
Yemen’s humanitarian and human rights catastrophe continues to worsen, according to new UN figures which put the number of killed since late March at more than 5,700. Continuer la lecture de « Unreported Crimes against Humanity – more than 800 Women and Children have died in Yemen »
Published on Dissident Voice, by Paul Craig Roberts, Nov 21st, 2015.
… Once Russia is in a coalition against ISIS, Russia will have to make compromises. Putin will be told that Russia can have ISIS, but Russia has to turn Assad’s fate over to the West. If Putin balks, the Western media will blame Putin for torpedoing the war against ISIS. Continuer la lecture de « Washington’s New Approach to Russia »
… in its Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Chapter – Published on naked capitalism, by Lambert Strether, Nov 19, 2015.
Let’s begin our quest for “science” with what the (disinformation campaign that is the) USTR’s FAQ has to say about the TPP’s SPS chapter, which controls, among other things, the (imported) food that you eat[1] … //
… Science vs. The Precautionary Principle: … //
… “Science” Based on “Confidential Information”: … // Continuer la lecture de « TPP’s Orwellian Definition of “Science” »
on refugees in the US:
Continuer la lecture de « a bunch of links on what's actual »
Paris attacked by Islamists … no, I no more will listen to any of these talkshows. As mentionned, again so called terrorists forgot their passports on the crime scene … do you really believe THAT?
I no more do. Thus, forget the whole bla-bla. To say it with the words of the belgian sociologist Jean-Claude Paye / (engl)… on Passport, le retour:
… l’apparente stupidité répétitive des terroristes doit être interprétée comme un artifice rhétorique du Pouvoir pour sidérer les citoyens. C’est parce que le récit officiel est absurde qu’on ne peut pas, qu’on ne doit pas le contester …;
in english: … the apparent repetitive stupidity of terrorists must be interpreted as a rhetorical device of the power / the govs to flabbergast citizens. This is because the official narrative is absurd that cannot – (that) has not – (to) be challenged …; Continuer la lecture de « I am fed up – I can no more hear it … »
Published on the blog Triple Crisis (a publication from Dollars&Sense), by Nina Eichacker, Nov 16, 2015.
… One factor that contributed to the Icelandic financial crisis was the lack of financial market transparency. Organizations that could have reported on the conditions of the Icelandic financial marketplace and the state of the Icelandic economy did not … // Continuer la lecture de « Lessons from Iceland’s Financial Crisis »
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Published on Let’s Try Democracy, by David Swanson, Nov 14, 2015.
We are all France. Apparently. Though we are never all Lebanon or Syria or Iraq for some reason. Or a long, long list of additional places.
We are led to believe that U.S. wars are not tolerated and cheered because of the color or culture of the people being bombed and occupied. But let a relatively tiny number of people be murdered in a white, Christian, Western-European land, with a pro-war government, and suddenly sympathy is the order of the day. Continuer la lecture de « Non-French War Deaths Matter »