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• Donetsk, Lugansk proclaim independence from Kiev, 3.59 min, uploaded by RT, May 12, 2014;
• Kev Baker Show: As Putin Pulls Troops Back … (Kiev)NATO Push On … Who Is Acting Like NAZIS Now? uploaded by TruthTube451 (AKA MrGlasgowTruther), May 7, 2014: Long version, 52,43 min, Excerpt of this long version, 5.47 min;
• Von Deutschland+Russland am 8. und am 10. Mai 2014 auf YouTube hochgeladen … und 85 weitere videos in autoplay: Russischer Blogger über Nazi-Staatsstreich in der Ukraine (2,7 Mio. Aufrufe in Russland), 25.54 min; Putin: Russland begrüßt den Vorschlag von Kanzlerin Merkel zu Lösung der Ukraine-Krise, 7.02 min;   Continuer la lecture de « Kiev – Putin – Rebel's POLL – Western Medias and Sanctions »

(UPDATE May 12, 2014: Rebels declare victory in east Ukraine poll, on english Al Jazeera, May 11, 2014: Pro-Russia separatists announce 89 percent of voters in Donetsk favoured self-rule, in referendum rejected by Kiev).

Egypt’s upcoming presidential polls will be heavily supervised by local judges and foreign monitors – Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Gamal Essam El-Din, May 8, 2014.

Seventy nine domestic civil society groups and five foreign organisations — the European Union (EU), the Arab League, the Carter Center, Transparency International and the US-based Democracy International (DI) — have been licensed to observe the presidential polls, says Abdel-Aziz Salman, spokesman for the Presidential Election Commission (PEC).   Continuer la lecture de « Egypt: Legitimising the poll »

Published on Axis of Logic, by Willima Blum, The Anti-Empire Report #128/williamblum.org, May 10, 2014.

So, what do we have here? In Libya, in Syria, and elsewhere the United States has been on the same side as the al-Qaeda types. But not in Ukraine. That’s the good news. The bad news is that in Ukraine the United States is on the same side as the neo-Nazi types, who – taking time off from parading around with their swastika-like symbols and calling for the death of Jews, Russians and Communists – on May 2 burned down a trade-union building in Odessa, killing scores of people and sending hundreds to hospital; many of the victims were beaten or shot when they tried to flee the flames and smoke; ambulances were blocked from reaching the wounded. Try and find an American mainstream media entity that has made a serious attempt to capture the horror[1] … // Continuer la lecture de « Russia: The Russians are coming … again … and they’re still ten feet tall »

Interview with Kavita Krishnan, published on LINKS.org.au, by Mila Gisbert, May 8, 2014.

… It is now over a year since the Delhi case ignited people’s anger and led them to protest. What do you consider has been the main achievement of that movement?

• I would say the main achievement has been actually a shift in the way that rape is talked about. To me, the most significant thing about the protest was that there were slogans being raised against victim blaming, rape culture, and this was happening for the very first time, and to introduce the idea that the women should not be subjected to restrictions in the name of “chastity”. This was something new that was happening in India for the first time with this case.
• But I think that the changes we want to see are clearly yet to happen and not all of the changes were positive.       Continuer la lecture de « India: Modi's BJP a 'grave danger' to women and minorities »

Published on truthout, by Mike Ludwig, May 7, 2014.

A woman in New York City left a nightclub in late 2010 to meet some friends for tacos. While she was walking to the restaurant in the Queens neighborhood of Jackson Heights, a man pulled up beside her in a dark-colored car and began talking to her. As the woman inched closer to hear what the man was saying, two undercover police officers jumped out of a van and arrested her for engaging in prostitution. She was thrown into a van with a dozen other women and taken to the115th Precinct in Jackson Heights to be fingerprinted before being transferred to Central Booking. There, she was then jailed in the men’s unit, where she endured painful verbal harassment from some of the cops and men in custody, according to the community organizing group Make the Road New York, which identified the woman by the pseudonym « Natasha. » Continuer la lecture de « 'Walking While Woman' and the Fight to Stop Violent Policing of Gender Identity – Report »

Published on Dissident Voice, by Peter Breschard, May 7, 2014.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Unalienable Rights. Self-evident Rights. You might say the modern definition of Human Rights springs directly from that unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. You probably wouldn’t be given much of an argument.   Continuer la lecture de « The Affordable Care Act: The Human Rights Violation for Liberals »

update 8. Mai 2014: Gabriele Krone-Schmalz auf SWR-BR, 14.22 min, von senzaAkka am 4. Mai 2014 hochgeladen;

NDR/ZAPP: Das darf nicht sein, 24.12 min, von lore lorus am 16. April 2014 hochgeladen;
mein Kommentar: genau so läuft es, danke. – Jetzt aber noch ein Aergernis: da wird gefragt … « bei jenen, die nicht einverstanden sind, hat es doch all die Verweigerer, Verschwörungstheoretiker (hört sich an nach Lumpenpack) aber auch respektvolle Leute, die man ernst nehmen muss … danke sehr, Sie arroganter Kerl, wollen Sie uns noch mehr ärgern, hoffentlich noch mehr Briefe erhalten? Immer noch nichts gelernt? Ihnen wurde doch gerade etwas über Anstand erklärt? Ihr aristokratisches Schwarz-Weiss-Denken ist wohl immer noch intakt?
… Inzwischen geht die ganze Berichtserstattung genau so weiter, wie oben kritisiert – NICHTS GELERNT / NICHTS EINGESEHEN ?!! Continuer la lecture de « Gabriele Krone-Schmalz »

Published on Intrepid Report, by Wayne Madsen Report WMR, May 6, 2014.

President Obama reversed the largely “benign neglect” of his predecessor toward the wave of progressive governments coming to power in Latin America and, at some time during his administration, he signed a classified presidential Finding” to do whatever is necessary to oust left-leaning governments in the Western Hemisphere and replace them with docile, pro-American ones.   Continuer la lecture de « Latin American nations under assault in massive Obama campaign of aggression »

Published on Pambazuka News, by Patrick Bond, May 1, 2014.

Nigeria’s ‘rebased’ GDP now beats South Africa’s in theory – but how does this measure up against the country’s actual wealth? Patrick Bond examines some of the biggest fallacies of the neoliberal investment prospects of the 2000s – BRICS, MINT (countries) and CIVETS, and why citizens are rising up in spite of the hype.  Continuer la lecture de « Africa’s number one economy, for wealth evaporation »

Published on truthout.org, by Douglas Jamiel, May 4, 2014.

The historical cost of building our postal network, its unique characteristics and efficiency, the nefarious efforts to privatize and cripple it, and the economic and personal costs of losing it are considered … //

… Since the 1970s, the right has patiently tried to wrest control of the US Postal Service from the government using a three-step strategy characterized by:    Continuer la lecture de « Deride and Conquer: Dismantling the USPS (United States postal system) »

Published on Global Research.ca, by Andrew J. Santos, May 3, 2014.

The revelation concerning a secretive airborne surveillance test in Compton, CA is disturbing. The Los Angeles County Sheriff Department via “Persistent Surveillance Systems”, spied on residents in Compton, CA for nine days in 2012.[1]   Continuer la lecture de « Secretive Airborne Police Surveillance in California »

Published on Spiegel Online International, by SUSANNE AMANN, FRANK DOHMEN, JÖRG KRAMER, PAUL MIDDELHOFF AND BARBARA SCHMID, April 30. 2014.

As Moscow continues to escalate the situation in Ukraine, public and political pressure is turning against German companies who do business with Russia. The countries’ economic ties make disengagement next to impossible.
Clemens Tönnies usually says what he thinks. When, on a February morning, he climbed into a private jet with his wife Margit to fly to the Olympic Games in Sochi, he described his views on Russia to a reporter with Sport Bild magazine: It has « bothered him, how negatively this country has been portrayed … // Continuer la lecture de « Little Love for Sanctions: Ukraine Crisis A Tightrope Walk for German Businesses »

Published on Axis of Logic, by Alex Park/Mother Jones, April 28, 2014.

(Editorial comment: The French title of Jean Ziegler’s latest book translates literally as ‘Mass Destruction – the Geopolitics of Hunger’. When I translated the article by Édouard MARET (Hunger can be overcome, according to Jean Ziegler), the title in English as it is now, was already posted. His last few books had not found a publisher or a translator into English, which I have guessed may be due to titles like ‘The Empire of Shame’ and ‘Hatred of the West’, concepts hard to face in the western world. Those two, and others, are magnificent books that give us the inside view of what is going on in the world with more or less planned and calculated starvation of the poor and the takeover of the entire world by the Corporate giants).   Continuer la lecture de « World Food & Water: How Agribusiness Keeps Us "Betting on Famine" »

Published on Russia Today RT, by Nadezhda Kevorkova, April 28, 2014:

The Americans never intended to help us build our country. Now Kabul is asking them not to leave Afghanistan so that the Taliban will not attack them,” a Pashtun from Kabul in his Moscow shop muses.
“Just imagine: we had 44 countries invading Afghanistan with modern weapons, satellite monitoring, tanks and missiles. The Taliban has an army of less than 20,000. We have 400,000 Afghan troops and 200,000 Americans with the most advanced weaponry. How is it possible that they can’t prevail over the Taliban?” he says. Continuer la lecture de « US came to Afghanistan with TV & cash – they won’t let us go »