former title: Politics for the 99% – then under world-citizenship.org – encore en reconstruction
von Kleinkunstpreis 2014 alle im März 2014 auf YouTube hochgeladen:
Links: Continuer la lecture de « deutsche Polit-Comedy im März 2014 »
Published on Pambazuka News, by Hamza Hamouchene, April 3, 2014.
In the run up to Algeria’s presidential elections on 17 April, a tragic comedy unfolds in which presidential candidates contest against a rigid regime with false stability. The outcome of the election is predetermined; and the people will lose, no matter which candidate wins.
Algeria’s next presidential elections will be held on 17 April 2014 and for the last few months; this important electoral rendezvous showed all the hallmarks of a masquerade, consistent with almost all the elections in the history of the Algerian state since independence in 1962. Continuer la lecture de « The Algerian presidential elections: The burlesque, the tragicomic and the farcical »
Published on Real-World Economics Review Blog, by Peter Radford, April 2, 2014.
… If we are to set up an institute to support change, provoke discussion, and otherwise meddle about with the established way of thinking, and thus to earn the moniker of “newness”, we ought not to pack our agendas with a steady stream of establishment figures. That is not the way to revolution. It might, however, be the way to raise esteem and thus get the institution media attention.
Newness in economics is devilishly hard to locate. This is due, possibly, to the continued warring amongst longstanding points of view that have neither been reconciled nor defeated. Indeed, from my perspective, it is practically impossible to kill off an economic idea once it has attached itself to an ideological flag. Continuer la lecture de « Reformist Economics »
(two with english transcript … the rest in german):
uploaded on YouTube by ggwporg, March 2014:
Published on Intrepid Report, by Paul Craig Roberts, April 1, 2014.
… In the Genesis of the World War, Harry Elmer Barnes shows that World War 1 was the product of 4 or 5 people. Three stand out: Raymond Poincaré, president of France; Sergei Sazonov, Russian foreign minister; and Alexander Izvolski, Russian ambassador to France. Poincaré wanted Alsace-Lorraine from Germany, and the Russians wanted Istanbul and the Bosphorus Strait, which connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. They realized that their ambitions required a general European war and worked to produce the desired war. Continuer la lecture de « Pushing toward the final war »
Published on Corriere della sera english, by Enrico Marro, Marzo 25, 2014 (English translation by Giles Watson).
Impeccably efficient and well worth a full bonus. Despite the best efforts of the then civil service minister Renato Brunetta, almost all public-sector managers in the top two pay bands managed to obtain assessments of more than 90% and pocket a full bonus. The Renzi government will now have to find a way to link earnings to results in its reform of public administration. But it will have to do more than that. Continuer la lecture de « Italy: State Fat Cats’ Bonus Bonanza »
Published on World Socialist Web Site WSWS, by Christoph Dreiere, March 29, 2014.
A day after US President Barack Obama intensified NATO’s confrontation with Russia in Brussels, Germany’s second largest weekly newspaper, Die Zeit, has come out in favour of the reintroduction of compulsory military service. Continuer la lecture de « German magazine Die Zeit calls for reintroduction of compulsory military service »
Development economics for the global north – Published on Dissident Voice, by New Unionism, March 29, 2014.
This week sees yet another make or break conference for the interminable Doha Round of World Trade Organization talks, writes network member Conor Cradden. This time it’s in Bali, and on the agenda (yet again) is breaking the deadlock about multilateral trade regulation (for a quick guide to what’s going on see this piece on the Guardian website). Continuer la lecture de « Collective Industrial Relations »
Published on Spiegel Online International, by Susanne Koelbl, March 27, 2014 (Photo Gallery – Translated from the German by Charles Hawley).
Zalmai Rassoul has long been a close political ally of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Now, he is campaigning to succeed his mentor. With Karzai backing Rassoul, many believe the outgoing leader is seeking to retain his influence … //
… Security Questions: Continuer la lecture de « Hamid's Shadow: Karzai Confidant Takes Aim at Afghan Presidency »
Published on Testosterone Pit, by Wolf Richter, March 27, 2014.
… Russian President Vladimir Putin might have had a field day listening to the speech. But he was busy. He was at his official residence in Novo-Ogaryovo near Moscow, meeting with German industry tycoons, including Joe Kaeser, CEO of multinational engineering conglomerate Siemens. It wasn’t an emergency response to the current sanctions spiral but had been planned during their last meeting in October. Continuer la lecture de « German Industry Goes To See Uncle Putin »
Published on Global Research.ca, by Prof Michel Chossudovsky, March 24, 2014.
Interim Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk meets President Obama at White House, March 2014 (White House photo).
In the days following the Ukraine coup d’Etat of February 23, leading to the ousting of a duly elected president, Wall Street and the IMF–in liaison with the US Treasury and the European Commission in Brussels– had already set the stage for the outright takeover of Ukraine’s monetary system. The EuroMaidan protests leading up to “regime change” and the formation of an interim government were followed by purges within key ministries and government bodies. Continuer la lecture de « Regime Change in Ukraine and the IMF’s Bitter “Economic Medicine” »
Published on truthout.org (first on Consortium News/News Analysis), by Lorraine Barlett, March 22, 2014.
Oh, how we Americans love to have someone to spar with, and to hate on, especially when it brings a renewed opportunity for us to engage in our favorite sport. So ramp up the rhetoric and ready the rockets, gang, it’s time for some war games. So, Risk, anyone? Oh wait … that’s just kids’ play. We all know that REAL men prefer Russian roulette … or do they simply march to Tehran? Continuer la lecture de « Crimea and Punishment »
Published on Dissident Voice, by James Petras, March 22, 2014.
Captain Jose Guillen Araque, of the Venezuelan National Guard, recently gave President Maduro a book on the rise of Nazism, warning that “fascism has to be defeated before it’s too late”! In retaliation for his prophetic warning, the patriotic young captain was shot by a US-backed assassin on the streets of Marcay in the state of Aragua on March 16, 2014. Continuer la lecture de « Defeating Fascism before It’s too Late »
Novo Rossia: The Eastern and Southeastern Mainland Provinces of Ukraine – Published on Global Research.ca, by Israel Shamir, March 21, 2014.
Nobody expected events to move on with such a breath-taking speed. The Russians took their time; they sat on the fence and watched while the Brown storm-troopers conquered Kiev, and they watched while Mrs Victoria Nuland of the State Department and her pal Yatsenyuk (“Yats”) slapped each other’s backs and congratulated themselves on their quick victory. Continuer la lecture de « Crimea: Putin’s Triumph. Now the Confrontation Moves East to “New Russia” »