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Published on Global Research.ca, by Stephen Lendman, March 7, 2015.

• … Fact: Washington wants Ukraine used as a dagger against Russia’s heartland – with menacing US bases on its borders threatening is sovereign independence … //
• … Fact: US-deposed President Viktor Yanukovych’s police showed remarkable restraint.
• Fact: Washington-supported Nazi thugs bore full responsibility for beatings, sniper killings and other violence.   Continuer la lecture de « Victoria Nuland Lied to US Congress about Phantom Russian Hoards in Ukraine »

Published on naked capitalism (first on TomDispatch), by Yves Smith, March 6, 2015.

Originally written by Pratap Chatterjee, executive director of CorpWatch. He is the author of Halliburton’s Army: How A Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War and Iraq, Inc. His next book, Verax, a graphic novel about whistleblowers and mass surveillance co-authored by Khalil Bendib, will be published by Metropolitan Books in 2016 …;   Continuer la lecture de « Are Pilots Deserting Washington’s Drone War? »

Published on TomDispatch, by Tom Engelhardt, March 1, 2015: My War on Terror, Letter to an Unknown American Patriot … //

… In other words, each of the terror organizations we categorize as the unimaginably barbaric Other has a curiously intimate, if generally unexplored, relationship with us. In addition, in these years, it’s been clear (at least to those living in the Greater Middle East) that such groups had no monopoly on barbarity. Washington’s extreme acts were legion in the region, ranging from its CIA torture chambers (although we called them “black sites”) to Abu Ghraib, from global kidnappings to images of a U.S. helicopter gunning down civilians in the streets of Baghdad.   Continuer la lecture de « Tomgram: Engelhardt, the Ten Commandments for a Better American World »

• The hidden victims of austerity in Greece, on Socialist Worker.org, by Sarah Levy, March 4, 2015: from Greece on the desperate conditions endured by immigrants – and the struggle to close the immigrant detention centers under a new government;
• UK: The NHS has never been in more danger, on Left Foot Forward, by Kailash Chand, March 4, 2015: Private sector providers want to down-skill medical staff to make them easier to fire, more biddable, and above all, cheaper …;     Continuer la lecture de « all this happens »

Published on The Telegraph, by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, March 2, 2015: Syriza is not interested in emergency EMU funding if it means kowtowing to Troika demands.

Greece is preparing to tap its final pension reserves at the country’s central bank if needed to avert a devastating default to the International Monetary Fund and keep the government going over the next two weeks. Continuer la lecture de « Greece eyes last central bank funds to avert IMF default »

Can Germany turn its back on USA? No, it can’t, on englisch.Pravda.ru, Aug 25, 2014.

… However, Germany did not become a free, or rather, a sovereign country, because the other half of the country was still swarming with victorious troops that did not want to follow the example of the USSR … // … Continuer la lecture de « die KANZLERAKTE / the german CHANCELLOR'S ACT »

Published on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, March 1, 2015.

I’m surprised, but perhaps I shouldn’t be, that a recent study hasn’t gotten the attention it warrants. It points to a direct connection between the impact of the crisis and a marked increase in suicide rates among the middle aged. This link seems entirely logical, given how many citizens found themselves whacked by a one-two punch of job loss or hours cutbacks combined with the sudden plunge in home prices. Normally, a last ditch course of action for most middle and upper middle class income members in the pre-crisis days, when things got desperate, was to sell you house and cut costs radically by moving into a much more modest rental. But that option vanished in all but the most stable markets (as in some flyover states that the subprime merchants ignored) due to home price declines trashing equity for all but those with small or no mortgages.   Continuer la lecture de « Austerity Kills: Economic Distress Seen as Culprit in Sharp Rise in Suicide Rate Among Middle Aged »

• Sir John Sawers, ex-MI6 chief, warns of Russia ‘danger’, on BBCnews, Feb 28, 2015 – (my comment: sirs or workers, WHITCH SOCIAL CLASS is pushing for war with Russia … look carefully – Heidi);
• US, UK meddling in OSCE’s mandate in Ukraine – Russia’s envoy to UN, on Russia Today RT, Feb 27, 2015;
• Gorbatschow in 1990 zum geeinten Deutschland, 3.17 min, von von Deutschland-Russland am 27. Feb 2015 hochgeladen: geeintes Deutschland kann unmöglich in der NATO sein … und weitere Kurz-Videos in autoplay;
• Putin announces 10% salary cuts in his administration, on Russia Today RT, Feb 27, 2015;   Continuer la lecture de « equally related concerns »

related articles published during February 2015 … : Continuer la lecture de « Basic Income BIG – Revenu de Base – Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen BGE, FEBRUARY 1-28, 2015 »

… the risk is calculated to be 1 in 20 million – Published on Intrepid Report, by John Chuckman, Feb 27, 2015.

… Let’s get a rough total estimate of what has happened to Americans from these causes in the time since 9/11. Just using the low number in each case for fourteen years, 7,000 Americans were killed by their own police, 420,000 were killed by something parked in their garage, 210,000 were murdered by fellow citizens, 1,400,000 were killed by friendly family doctors, and there were 560,000 who just decided to pack it in for one reason or another. The total of these various causes of death rounds to 2,600,000 deaths, nearly 867 times the number of Americans killed in 9/11, 867 collapsed sets of twin towers, nearly 62 collapsed sets of towers per year.   Continuer la lecture de « The chance of an American being killed by terrorists is close to zero »

Published on The Local.de, Feb 26, 2015:

BILD, Europe’s biggest-selling daily newspaper, on Thursday targeted plans for an extension to Greece’s bailout by asking readers to email in selfies with the paper’s « NEIN » headline. NO! No more billions for the greedy Greeks! the paper declared in its print and online editions. It urged readers to snap a selfie while holding it and email it back to the paper as part of a campaign against further subsidies.   Continuer la lecture de « BILD says 'NEIN' to Greece bailout extension »

Published on Global Research.ca, by Julie Lévesque, Feb 25, 2015.

… Why is the media so keen on portraying Big Pharma critics as crazy, uneducated, unscientific and irresponsible people?

Dr Marcia Angell worked for over two decades as editor of The New England Journal of Medicine. She was fired after criticizing the pharmaceutical industry, which had exerted a n overriding and negative influence on the scientific literature. She said: “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published.”   Continuer la lecture de « 25 Facts About the Pharmaceutical Industry, Vaccines and “Anti-Vaxers” »

Published on Dissident Voice, by Wilhelm Langthaler, February 21, 2015.

… Sýriza is prisoners of its own past, its origins in the euro-communist Synaspismós. For them the European Union has been the greatest achievement of the post-war period. Only they would need to make it more socially inclined. They failed to understand that the very raison d’être of the EU is to destroy the welfare states which historically had grown within the nation states.   Continuer la lecture de « Tsípras: Scared by His Own Courage »

… Goldman Sachs, School Districts, and Capital Appreciation Bonds – Published on Dissident Voice, by Ellen Hodgson Brown, Feb 21, 2015.

… Remember when Goldman Sachs, dubbed by Matt Taibbi “The Vampire Squid”, sold derivatives to Greece so the government could conceal its debt, then bet against that debt, driving it up? It seems that the ubiquitous investment bank has also put the squeeze on California and its school districts. Not that Goldman was alone in this; but the unscrupulous practices of the bank once called the undisputed king of the municipal bond business epitomize the culture of greed that has ensnared students and future generations in unrepayable debt.   Continuer la lecture de « Swimming with the Sharks »

• The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy, 57.26 min, uploaded by SkriptaTV, Feb 12, 2015 – his book/same title: on  Zed Books, London, 2013; on amazon; on Google Web-search … followed by other videos in autoplay;
• Yanis Varoufakis on February 5, 2015, 9.58 min, uploaded by Podemos ecoLogicos, Feb 10, 2015;
• All the good stuff that cannot be measured, 19.59 min, uploaded by SkriptaTV, Feb 7, 2015 (first on Democratic Underground);
• Chinese credit speculation, the Greek debt crisis and US earnings woes, 27.46 min, uploaded by Boom Bust, Jan 28, 2015;
• Who is Yanis Varoufakis? 2.10 min, uploaded by CNNMoney, Jan 28, 2015;   Continuer la lecture de « Videos with Yanis Varoufakis »