politics for the 99%

Published on ZNet (first on The Intercept), by Dilma Rousseff and Glenn Greenwald, May 21, 2016 [VIDEO 23.21 min]. https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/first-interview-with-brazils-president-dilma-rousseff-since-the-senates-impeachment-vote/

Last Thursday, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was suspended from the presidency when the Senate voted, 55-22, to try her on the impeachment charges, approved by the lower house, involving alleged budgetary maneuvers (“pedaladas”) designed to obscure the size of public debt … // Continue Reading…

Published on In Defence of Marxism, by Jorge Martin, May 19, 2016.

The assault against the Bolivarian revolution has intensified in the recent days and weeks. Editorials and front pages in US and Spanish newspapers are screaming about hunger in Venezuela and demanding the removal of the “dictatorial regime”. Ongoing scarcity problems have led to instances of looting. The right-wing opposition is attempting to trigger a presidential recall referendum, but is also threatening violent action and appealing to foreign powers, including in some case for military intervention. What is really happening in Venezuela and how can these threats be faced? … // Continue Reading…

Publshed on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1257, by Zwelinzima Vavi, May 17, 2016.

South African President Jacob Zuma’s budget speech delivered on 4 May 2016 was yet another missed opportunity to look the South African public in the eye and be frank about the challenges our country is facing. This president and the government he leads are in a state of shocking denial about the worsening and unfolding crisis happening under their watch. They simply refuse to acknowledge the level of our people’s suffering.   Continue Reading…

Published on New Eastern Outlook NEO, by Phil Butler, May 14, 2016.

The people behind the scenes of today’s world crises could not have succeeded in reshaping so many nations without help. Creating a robotic billionaire monster like George Soros, and unleashing him on the former Soviet republics, it could never have led to so much turmoil. There have to be more adjutants, armies of them in fact, in order to reshape the world’s image. Continue Reading…

Published on Global Research.ca (first on RT), by Pepe Escobar, May 17, 2016.

This lowly farce should serve as a wake-up call not only to the BRICS but to the whole Global South. Who needs NATO, R2P (“responsibility to protect”) or “moderate rebels” when you can get your regime change just by tweaking a nation’s political/judicial system? Continue Reading…

Published on teleSUR, by João Feres Júnior, May 13, 2016.

Dilma is gone and it is very unlikely that she will ever return to power. The question that everybody is asking now is: what is going to happen to Brazil in the near future?   Continue Reading…

Pubished on Dissident Voice, by John Stanton, May 14, 2016. http://dissidentvoice.org/2016/05/organized-misery-is-fascism/

When the United States goes to war they will introduce a war economy. This means sacrificing everything for the army and war purposes – and misery for the population … — Leon Trotsky … // Continue Reading…

• Global Capitalism, May 2016 Monthly Economic Update, 91,32 min, uploaded by Democracy At Work, May 11, 2016;
• Russia and the (US) Neocon – March to World War 3, with Paul Craig Roberts, 31.31 min, uploaded by TheLipTV, Jan 30, 2015 … the Neocon march to World War III with Russia is explored with retired Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Paul Craig Roberts. How George W. Bush and Dick Cheney managed to embolden the far right towards reckless endangerment of global peace, and how Russia has become the focus of the static is discussed. The possibility of global economic collapse, plus the Reagan administration figure talks about how the political landscape has changed for the worse in this uncensored political discussion on Buzzsaw, hosted by Sean Stone …;   Continue Reading…

mainly in german

• EINE Bibel VIELE Kirchen – der Schlüssel zur Vergangenheit, uploaded by derlauteruf, Dec 19, 2011: Teil 1, 70.38 min; Teil 2, 76.59 min; Teil 3, 82.14 min;
• Die Kabbala – Schlüssel zur Vergangenheit, 45.18 min, uploaded Bobby Robby, March 1, 2012;   Continue Reading…

in english, german, french

specially ENOCH:

Book of Enoch, the Book for the Final Generation, 85.33 min, uploaded by Apocryphile 1970:

• the Entire Book of Enoch – R.H. Charles Version, 207.30 min;   Continue Reading…

The TOM HARTMNN SHOW on radio; on TV/stations; on YouTube;

uploaded on YouTube by thomhartmann, May 2016:

• When has Corporate #FreeTrade helped anyone but the #Billionaires? 9.39 min, … talk with Louise Tieman, President & CEO, World Trade Center-Tacoma/Washington, joins Thom to debate the TPP;   Continue Reading…

Uploaded by DIEM25.official:

• Europe’s Duty to the Refugees – Europe’s Duty to Itself, May 8, 2016: Part 1, 110.29 min; Part 2, 83.10 min; Europe closes down. Not only with regard to flight, migration and refugees, the current atmosphere in Europe is characterized by political and intellectual bigotry and self-imposed isolation. Hence, „the European Union will either be democratised or it will disintegrate“, to quote the recurring theme of the Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM25), recently founded by former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and numerous European politicians, intellectuals and activists.   Continue Reading…

… Interview with Lourdes Huanca – Published on Upside Down World.org, by Georges Ygarza, May 8, 2016.

… Lourdes Huanca Atencio is president of the National Federation of female peasants, Artisans, Indigenous, Natives and Salaried workers of Peru or FENMUCARINAP. The organization was founded in 2006 with the purpose of defending and fighting for the rights of women in Peru. These include struggles for the control and defense of the female body and political, economic and social empowerment. Rooted in an ancestral cosmovision of their indigenous communities, a central struggle has been the fight for their subsistence, in maintaining land, water and seed sovereignty. FENMUCARINAP currently finds itself in 19 regions throughout Peru and counts on over 126,000 members.   Continue Reading…

Published on South China Morning Post, May 6, 2016.

Greece’s central bank says its website suffered a denial-of service attack as Anonymous announces the start of a 30-day campaign targeting major financial institutions. Continue Reading…

Published on Dissident Voice, by Binoy Kampmark, May 6, 2016.

The monstrous Siamese twin of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement TPP, known as (and also) the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership TTIP, has been in a growing puddle of dispute after 248 pages of its content were leaked.   Continue Reading…

• Wild Thailand HD, 44.59 min, uploaded by NatureDocumentary;
• Wild Russia The Secret Forest HD, 46.56 min, uploaded by Nat Geo Wild;
• Wild Balkans 2016, 44.14 min, uploaded by BBC Natural World.

Published on NPR.org, by Steve Inskeep, May 5, 2016.

STEVE INSKEEP: How is West Virginia different, if at all, from anywhere else you campaigned?

• SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: Well, West Virginia has some pockets of the worst poverty in the United States of America.   Continue Reading…

… (and) pressures Anastasiades to accept NATO plan for Turkish troops in Cyprus – Published on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, May 4, 2016.

Yves here. We were one of the few sites to follow the brutal handling of the Cyprus banking system when one of its major banks got wobbly in 2013. Cyprus was demonized as a money laundering center, when its main sin was that it served as a conduit for inbound investment into Russia, including investment by large, well-recognized companies. Continue Reading…

… the Calm before the Coming Global Storm – Published on ZNet (first on Sputnik News), by Pepe Escobar, May 4, 2016.

Major turbulence seems to be the name of the game in 2016. Yet the current turbulence may be interpreted as the calm before the next, devastating geopolitical/financial storm. Let’s review the current state of play via the dilemmas afflicting the House of Saud, the EU and BRICS members Russia, Brazil and China.   Continue Reading…

• BBC How Plants Communicate & Think – Amazing Nature Documentary, 52.35 min, uploaded by DOCUMENTARY TV;
• The Rise of Black Wolf, 46.33 min, uploaded by Discovery Channel … Discovery channel animals documentaries;
• Secret Pacific Ocean Paradise Nature, 66.05 min, uploaded by rohan xxl, … a National Geographic Doc;
• The Water World of Pantanal, 45.12 min, uploaded by Mississippi … Mysterious Natural Paradise 3 of 5.

Published on Intrepid Report, by Walter Brasch, May 2, 2016.

… The reason Joe Sestak is a slow learner is because he hasn’t learned to accept the floating rules of the political machine. He believes people in power should be able to justify their decisions, and he has a healthy attitude that dictates he should question authority when necessary. As a three-star flag officer, he listened to his staff and supported the thousands of enlisted personnel under his command, but he challenged those entombed within their own tunnel vision.   Continue Reading…

• #1ERMAI: 17.000 manifestants à Paris selon la préfecture de police, 70.000 selon la CGT, en hausse par rapport à 2015, dans l’Obs, le 1er mai 2016;
• The Big News in the Union Rift Over the Working Families Party, on ZNet (first on Portside.org), by Jim Pope, May 1, 2016;

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Published on Yahoo/Finance, by Andy Serwer, April 29, 2016.

… “After the events of 2008, really since then, the central banks either collectively or individually have tried to implement policies which would, in effect, buy time for individual governments to take the actions they should take to put their houses in order,” Thornton says. Continue Reading…

2016-04-01: Brazil, like Russia, under attack by Hybrid War;
2016-04-02: The Rebellion Will Not Go Away;
2016-04-03: Natural Capital: What Is the True Cost of Food?
2016-04-04: Looking the Basic Income Gift Horse in the Mouth;
2016-04-05: Neoliberal Economists: Against Bernie Sanders and Common Sense;
2016-04-06: a bunch of created realities;
2016-04-07: Won’t help ordinary Ukrainians, Dutch suspect EU/Kiev deal more for power players than people;
2016-04-08: Saving capitalism or getting rid of it?
2016-04-09: The Panama Papers Barely Scratches the Surface of UK Complicity in a Global Scandal;
2016-04-10: Q & A with Angela Walker, Socialist Party USA candidate for Vice-President;
2016-04-11: Paris is Burning;
2016-04-12: Selective Leaks Of The #Panama Papers Create Huge Blackmail Potential – Smear People the U.S. Dislikes;
2016-04-13: Basic Income And Social Democracy;
2016-04-14: Arrests made as hundreds of elderly Americans protest at 2nd ‘Democracy Spring’ sit-in;
2016-04-15: The War on Savings: the Panama Papers, Bail-Ins, and the Push to Go Cashless;
2016-04-16: The Brussels Business – who runs the EU;
2016-04-17: Erdogan and the Satirist, part 1: Inside Merkel’s Comedy Conundrum;
2016-04-18: Syrian Elections prove again that Washington and its Presstitutes lie through their Teeth;
2016-04-19: Warwick Economics Summits WES – 2014 to 2016;
2016-04-20: different concerns;
2016-04-21: Crisis in Brazil;
2016-04-22: Communal Violence and the Demobilization of Protest Campaigns;
2016-04-23: Why is the Progressive Left Helping the Elite Elect Hillary?
2016-04-24: A Silicon Valley entrepreneur says basic income would work;
2016-04-25: Democracy Spring and the US Voting Matrix;
2016-04-26: Ahead of Brexit Vote, EU Commission To Challenge UK Truck Toll;
2016-04-27: about these 28 pages;
2016-04-28: What Would Happen If We Just Gave People Money?
2016-04-29: Electoral Politics and the Illusion of Control;
2016-04-30: In the Name of the Profit;
2016-04-30: Basic Income BIG – Revenu de Base – Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen BGE, APRIL 1-30, 2016: related articles published during March 2015.

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