Prepared to Die: The Right Wing's Role in Ukrainian Protests

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Spiegel Staff: BENJAMIN BIDDER, CHRISTIAN NEEF, VLADIMIR PYLYOV and MATTHIAS SCHEPP, January 27, 2014 (Photo Gallery).

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich appears bent on crushing the protest movement but the opposition won’t go quietly. A right-wing nationalist party is seeking to benefit from the growing violence and has begun warning of a civil war. Continuer la lecture de « Prepared to Die: The Right Wing's Role in Ukrainian Protests »

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The One Percent

The One Percent, 76.29 min, uploaded by WarZalez, Nov 1, 2011: This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing « wealth gap » in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. Johnson, who cut his film teeth at NYU and made the Emmy®-nominated 2003 HBO documentary Born Rich, here sets his sights on exploring the political, moral and emotional rationale that enables a tiny percentage of Americans – the one percent – to control nearly half the wealth of the entire United States. The film Includes interviews with Nicole Buffett, Bill Gates Sr., Adnan Khashoggi, Milton Friedman, Robert Reich, Ralph Nader and other luminaries. Website: The One Percent.

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Gregor Gysi

The Real Causes of the Catastrophic Crisis in Greece and the “Left”

Published on Global Research.ca, by Takis Fotopoulos, January 16, 2014.

… 2. Capitalist globalization can only be neoliberal:

The Euro-elites simply cannot afford to lose more of their competitiveness. In fact, the real reason for the creation of EU and later of the Eurozone had nothing to do with the ideals of freedom, democracy, human values and the rest of its ideology, as EU’s history has clearly shown. It was the growing gap in competitiveness (in terms of EU’s share of world exports) during the 1980s, which led the Euro-elites to speed up the integration procedures, which were mostly dormant up to then.  Continuer la lecture de « The Real Causes of the Catastrophic Crisis in Greece and the “Left” »

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Jacque Fresco

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Overheated Financial Planet, World Political Chaos and Shadow Banking

… but Solutions for the Future Continue to Emerge – Published on Global Research.ca, by GEAB no. 81, January 17, 2014.

… We have symbolised 2013 as “the first steps in a chaotic world after” (1).

A year which was in effect the new century’s zero year and at the end of which solutions were emerging from all sides. At the beginning of 2014 the spotlight is henceforth on the Eurozone, China, Russia and the BRICS where the tools to shape the “world afterwards” are being designed with incredible rapidity: the “world before” is handing over to “the world afterwards”.   Continuer la lecture de « Overheated Financial Planet, World Political Chaos and Shadow Banking »

Carl Hart on drugs

  • Drugs Aren’t the Problem, 22.55 min, uploaded on YouTube by Noam Chmsky Videos, Jan 7, 2014: Neuroscientist Carl Hart on Brain Science and Myths about Addiction – first on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman … and 96 other videos in autoplay;
  • Carl Hart on en.wikipedia … (born 1966) is an associate professor of psychology and psychiatry at Columbia University. Hart is known for his research in drug abuse and drug addiction. Hart was the first tenured African American professor of sciences at Columbia University …;