nous les 99%

Published on Monthly Review, by Martin Hart-Landsberg, 2013, Volume 65, Issue 05 (October),

If we are to build support for an alternative to capitalism we need clarity on the causes and consequences of the contemporary capitalist drive for greater liberalization and privatization, as well as the benefits from and limits to state direction of capitalist economic activity. Although a small country, Iceland’s recent experience has much to teach us about capitalist dynamics and strategies of transformation.   Continuer la lecture de « Lessons from Iceland: Capitalism, Crisis, and Resistance »

• Awake and Aware 2013, Panel Discussion, 159.232 min, uploaded by Project Camelot, April 9, 2013;
• Kate Northrup at Wanderlust Festival’s Speakeasy – Whistler 2012, 54.41 min,  uploaded by Wanderlust Festival, May 24, 2013;
• WhistleBlower Head of FBI tells all from NWO, 63.34 min, uploaded by gkossatzgmxde, May 8, 2013;
• INELIA BENZ, the full interview with Bill Ryan from Project Avalon, 103.27 min, uploaded by AlphaZebra, May 20, 2011;
• We are the 99 Percent: From Frustration to Occupation, Institute of Politics, 53.49 min, uploaded by Harvard University, Oct 14, 2011.

Gallup’s just-released poll showing a majority of Americans support the drug’s legalization isn’t quite true … at least not yet – Published on The Guardian, by Harry J. Enten, Oct 23, 2013.

Ever feel like you’re experiencing deja vu? I’m sure it’s happened to those of you who have smoked cannabis – you know, grass, marijuana, or, as the cool kids might say, weed. And while I’m not personally smoking the stuff, I get the same feeling when talking about marijuana polling.

It was big news Tuesday when Gallup released a poll showing that a record high 58% of Americans believe marijuana should be legalized. But the proof that a majority of Americans are in favor of cannabis legalization is, as I wrote earlier this year, simply not there yet. Take the Gallup poll, and the trend in it over the past few years.  Continuer la lecture de « US: is there really a majority in favor of marijuana legalization? »

The Coming Era of Tiny Wars and Micro-Conflicts – Published on ZNet (first on TomDispatch), by Tom Engelhardt, Oct 23, 2013.

In terms of pure projectable power, there’s never been anything like it … //

… Despite this stunning global power equation, for more than a decade we have been given a lesson in what a military, no matter how overwhelming, can and (mostly) can’t do in the twenty-first century, in what a military, no matter how staggeringly advanced, does and (mostly) does not translate into on the current version of planet Earth.   Continuer la lecture de « Why Washington Can’t Stop »

Published on World Socialist Web Site WSWS, by Barry Grey, Oct 23, 2013.

A series of reports released over the past several days document the killing of thousands of people, including hundreds of non-combatant civilians, in US drone strikes in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and other countries. The reports, issued by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, 105 pages, on Tuesday and the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions last Friday, expose as lies the claims of President Obama and administration officials that the drone strikes are “surgical” attacks that kill few civilians.  Continuer la lecture de « Reports document US slaughter of civilians in drone strikes »

Published on truthdig, by Chris Hedges, Oct 20, 2013.

“The rich are different from us,” F. Scott Fitzgerald is said to have remarked to Ernest Hemingway, to which Hemingway allegedly replied, “Yes, they have more money.”

The exchange, although it never actually took place, sums up a wisdom Fitzgerald had that eluded Hemingway. The rich are different. The cocoon of wealth and privilege permits the rich to turn those around them into compliant workers, hangers-on, servants, flatterers and sycophants. Wealth breeds, as Fitzgerald illustrated in “The Great Gatsby” and his short story “The Rich Boy,” a class of people for whom human beings are disposable commodities.   Continuer la lecture de « Let’s Get This Class War Started »

Published on VOX.org, by Knut Are Aastveit, Gisle James Natvik, Sergio Sola, October 19, 2013.

Many analysts blame uncertainty for at least part of advance nations’ poor economic performance since the crisis. This column discusses new research showing that the economic impact of monetary policy is dampened when uncertainty is high. This means that high uncertainty forces monetary policymakers into a trade-off between acting decisively and acting correctly as policy must be more aggressive than otherwise in order to stabilise economic activity. The finding is particularly stark when uncertainty measures from financial markets are utilised.   Continuer la lecture de « Economic uncertainty and the effectiveness of monetary policy »

• on Outside The Box/on YouTube-search, an UK Column hosted by Jason Liosatos, uploaded by ukcolumn: Patrick Henningsen as guest – Episode 1: 38.36 min, September 19, 2013; Episode 2: 51.16 min, Sept 20, 2013;
• on Red Ice Radio: Patrick Henningsen, Hour 1 Syria …, 59.35 min, uploaded by jack jill, Sept 11, 2013: (Homepage);
• on On The Edge: Patrick Henningsen, 47.49 min, uploaded by OfficialEdgeMediaTV, May 10, 2013: (Series 3, Episode 32 – Homepage);
• on News For The Waking Generation: Patrick Henningsen of Info Wars & Russia Today, 81.36 min, uploaded by Videos From The Underground,Nov 5, 2012 (Homepage).

Published on Civil Eats, by Bob St Peter and Raj Patel, October 18, 2013.

Imagine a country where ideologues bent on land reform turn agriculture into the plaything of the world’s richest investors, and poor local farmers are locked out of millions of acres prime agricultural land. Then stop imagining some African country run by a despot and his friends and start picturing the United States. Rural America is on the cusp of one of the greatest transfers of land in its history and no one’s talking about it.   Continuer la lecture de « USA: This Land is Our Land? »

Published on Dissident Voice (first on AlterNet), by Anna Simonton, October 18, 2013.

From the narrow windows of New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, 24-year-old anarchist Jerry Koch can see the last place he stood as a free person.  Continuer la lecture de « How the FBI Manipulates Grand Juries to Intimidate Political Dissidents and Radicals »

Published on Spiegel Online International, an essay by Erich Follath, October 16, 2013.

China, India and Brazil are taking the global economy by storm, becoming more politically confident on their way. But even as they form a front against the West, they will have to tackle slower growth and major domestic problems that their newly prosperous citizens are no longer willing to tolerate … //

… Getting in on Western Commerce:   Continuer la lecture de « Emerging Challenges: What's In Store for the New Global Powers, Part 1 »

Published on Russia Today, Oct 16, 2013.

Toiling in terrible conditions, no salaries for months, passports confiscated by employers – that’s the horrendous reality for migrant workers helping with preparations for the World Cup 2022 in Qatar, as revealed by German filmmaker, Peter Giesel.

He and his cameraman were detained and imprisoned after they tried to investigate the story. The two went to Qatar following the publication of a report in the Guardian, claiming that workers are enduring appalling labor abuses.   Continuer la lecture de « German filmmaker imprisoned for exposing dire Qatar World Cup worker conditions »

Published on Xinhuanet News, by Liu Chang, Oct 13, 2013.

As U.S. politicians of both political parties are still shuffling back and forth between the White House and the Capitol Hill without striking a viable deal to bring normality to the body politic they brag about, it is perhaps a good time for the befuddled world to start considering building a de-Americanized world.   Continuer la lecture de « Commentary: U.S. fiscal failure warrants a de-Americanized world »

as Washington stalls … join it and celebrate it – Published on ZNet (first on AlterNet), by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, October 14, 2013.

… In fact, change takes time and is not linear; it is not an ever-rising crescendo but in fact comes in stages. Lakey describes this as a “Living Revolution” and sees five stages: Continuer la lecture de « a new economy is growing under the radar of the corporate media »

Published on Global Research.ca (first on Zero Hedge), by Tyler Durden, Oct 14, 2013.

We assume it is a coincidence that on the day in which we demonstrate China’s relentless appetite for gold, driven by what we and many others believe is the country’s desire to have a call option on a gold-backed reserve currency when the time comes, just posted in China’s official press agency, Xinhua, is an op-ed by writer Liu Chang in which he decries the “US fiscal failure which warrants a de-Americanized world” Continuer la lecture de « China calls for new reserve currency, and new world order »