Published on Spiegel Online International, by Katrin Kuntz, Jonathan Stock and Bernhard Zand, (Photo Gallery).
Typhoon Haiyan has left entire regions all but inaccessible in the Philippines, while the ensuing chaos has hampered the efforts of relief workers. A country hit by about 10 typhoons a year ought to be better prepared … //
… Aid Catastrophe Follows Typhoon: … //
… Government Unprepared for Disaster: Continue Reading…
End to privacy? – Published on Russia Today RT, November 19, 2013.
Human rights groups are sounding alarms as Western firms sell mass surveillance technology in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, equipping governments and companies new capabilities to snoop on citizens.
Despite the public outcry over mass global surveillance being carried out by the NSA and the GCHQ, brought to light in May by US whistleblower Edward Snowden, the scandal has not prevented tech companies and countries from closing contracts on spy technology. Continue Reading…
The National Council for Childhood and Motherhood seeks to promote children’s rights in the new constitution – Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Reem Leila, Nov 13, 2013.
The National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM) is playing a leading role in suggesting amendments to child-related articles in the new constitution and protecting children’s rights.
In coordination with several NGOs the NCCM is calling for the amended constitution to define anyone below 18 years of age as a child and for all children’s rights to be protected regardless of family situation. Continue Reading…
Published on Intrepid Report, by Ellen Brown, J.D., Nov 15, 2013;
In Costa Rica, publicly-owned banks have been available for so long and work so well that people take for granted that any country that knows how to run an economy has a public banking option. Costa Ricans are amazed to hear there is only one public depository bank in the United States (the Bank of North Dakota), and few people have private access to it … //
… The dire effects of the IMF’s austerity measures were confirmed in a 1993 book excerpt by Karen Hansen-Kuhn, titled “Structural Adjustment in Costa Rica: Sapping the Economy.” She noted that Costa Rica stood out in Central America because of its near half-century history of stable democracy and well-functioning government, featuring the region’s largest middle class and the absence of both an army and a guerrilla movement. Continue Reading…
Published on ZNet, by Robin Hahnel, November 13, 2013.
In the aftermath of the collapse of communism, debate about alternatives to capitalism has divided into three camps: advocates of market socialism, proponents of democratic planning, and supporters of community-based economics.[1] Few anti-capitalists—whether they favor market socialism, democratic planning, or community-based economics—deceive themselves that there is more than a tiny minority in any advanced economy who are ready to replace capitalism at this time. Continue Reading…
Video on Veterans Day on Democracy Now News, from 42.20 min – 58.56, min, Full Interview with Ann Jones, by Amy Goodman, November 11, 2013:
U.S. Veterans Face Staggering Epidemic of Unemployment, Trauma & Suicide
(Book: They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America’s Wars – The Untold Story, by Ann Jones, on Haymarket Books: Ann Jones shines a much-needed light on the dead, wounded, mutilated, brain-damaged, drug-addicted, suicidal, homicidal casualties of our distant wars, taking us on a stunning journey from the devastating moment an American soldier is first wounded in rural Afghanistan to the return home. Beautifully written by an empathetic and critical reporter who knows the price of war).
Today marks Veterans Day, the federal holiday honoring U.S. men and women who have fought in the armed forces. Veterans continue to face extremely high levels of unemployment, traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress and homelessness. Continue Reading…
See on Economy and Society: WhistleBlower Head of FBI … tells all from NWO.
… why is an epidemic of thievery sweeping America? – Published on The Economic Collapse, by Michael Snyder, November 3, 2013.
Desperate people do desperate things, and it appears that Americans are rapidly becoming a lot more desperate. An epidemic of thievery is sweeping across America, and authorities are not quite sure what to make of it. Down in Texas, cattle thieves can get up to $1,500 per head of cattle, and cattle rustling was up nearly 40 percent last year. As you will read about below, cargo hijacking is becoming much more sophisticated, and it is being estimated that losses from cargo thefts will total about $216 million this year alone. And for some reason, Tide laundry detergent has become a very hot commodity among common criminals all across America. Continue Reading…
with his article on the Aboriginal People of Australia – Published on Axis of Logic, by John Pilger, Nov 7, 2013.
… Utopia, a new, epic film on Australia by John Pilger, will be released in cinemas in the UK in November and shown on ITV in December. Tickets are on sale at www.picturehouses.co.uk
In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger describes the suppression of Australia’s bloodied history while veneration for its colonial wars and the rise of militarism excludes the true story of the ‘the greatest expropriation of land in world history’. Continue Reading…
Published on Russia Today RT, Nov 8, 2013.
The UK is “by far the most important” player on the global financial secrecy market. While only ranked 21 on the Tax Justice Network index, the aggregated web of jurisdictions around the world makes Britain the top router of global financial secrets … //
… Overall Tax Justice Network ranked 82 global financial jurisdictions, 10 of which are directly connected to UK, whose head of state is the British queen. They include places like the fourth-ranked Cayman Islands, fourteenth-ranked Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands ranked 20th. Continue Reading…
The directors of GCHQ, MI6 and MI5 are to face questions from a parliamentary committee. Here’s what they should be asked – Published on The Guardian, by Nick Hopkins, Nov 6, 2013.
The heads of Britain’s three intelligence agencies – whose identities were once regarded as top secret – will on Thursday give evidence before a parliamentary committee for the first time.
Sir Iain Lobban, the director of Government Communications Headquarters GCHQ, the MI6 (foreign intelligence) chief, Sir John Sawers, and the director general of MI5 (UK’s domestic counter-intelligence), Andrew Parker, will face questions from the intelligence and security committee in a 90-minute session … // Continue Reading…
Published on War us a Crime.org, by David Swanson, Nov 1, 2013.
President Dwight Eisenhower is often admired for having avoided huge wars, having declared that every dollar wasted on militarism was food taken out of the mouths of children, and having warned — albeit on his way out the door — of the toxic influence of the military industrial complex (albeit in a speech of much more mixed messages than we tend to recall).
But when you oppose war, not because it murders, and not because it assaults the rights of the foreign places attacked, but because it costs too much in U.S. lives and dollars, then your steps tend in the direction of quick and easy warfare — usually deceptively cheap and easy warfare. Continue Reading…
Published on Spiegel Online International, by Martin Hesse, November 1, 2013 (Photo Gallery).
Singapore has become an increasingly popular haven for money laundering and tax evasion. But now it faces calls for reform and a difficult dilemma: Can it be both a home for fortune hunters and a bastion of integrity? … //
… Singapore’s Ambitious Plan: … //
… Sketchy Money: Continue Reading…
Published on People’s World, by Mark Gruenberg, Nov 1, 2013.
WASHINGTON – Corporate interests, led by the American Legislative Exchange Council ALEC and including the National Association of Manufacturers, the (US) Chamber of Commerce and retailers‘ groups, have undertaken – and continue to undertake – a wide-ranging attack on workers, union and non-union, a new Economic Policy Institute EPI report and a panel discussing it says. Continue Reading…
Interview published on Theory Talks, with Timothy Mitchell, Theory Talk no. 59, Oct 25, 2013.
The unrest in the Arab world put the region firmly in the spotlights of IR. Where many scholars focus on the conflicts in relation to democratization as a local or regional dynamic, political events there do not stand in isolation from broader international relations or other—for instance economic—concerns. Among the scholars who has insisted on such broader linkages and associations that co-constitute political dynamics in the region, Timothy Mitchell stands out. The work of Mitchell has largely focused on highly specific aspects of politics and development in Egypt and the broader Middle East, such as the relations between the building of the Aswan Dam and redistribution of expertise, and the way in which the differences between coal and oil condition democratic politics. Continue Reading…
2013-10-01: Mother Agnes Mariam: Exposing the Syrian Chemical Hoax;
2013-10-01: Internationaler Tag der Katze;
2013-10-02: Last Opportunity: ECB and Politicians at Odds Over Stress Tests, Part 1;
2013-10-02: Deutschland nach den Wahlen;
2013-10-03: US: Tiny white elite dominates US political donor landscape – study;
2013-10-04: The formal political process isn’t always the best way to effect social change;
2013-10-05: Internet freedom on decline worldwide as governments tighten grip – report;
2013-10-05: Top 10 des sujets les plus controversés sur Wikipédia;
2013-10-06: Regression and causation: a critical examination of six econometrics textbooks;
2013-10-07: Ocean Acidification Due To Carbon Emissions;
2013-10-08: America needs the NEED Act;
2013-10-09: Boehner prepares to let the US default;
2013-10-10: Artificial Intelligence;
2013-10-11: All superpowers feel exceptional;
2013-10-11: Links on my dashboard;
2013-10-12: Corporate Child Abuse: The Unseen Global Epidemic;
2013-10-13: Google: Doing Evil with ALEC;
2013-10-14: Talk to AlJazeera with Viviane Reding: Data protection is a right;
2013-10-15: China calls for new reserve currency, and new world order;
2013-10-16: a new economy is growing under the radar of the corporate media;
2013-10-17: Commentary: U.S. fiscal failure warrants a de-Americanized world;
2013-10-18: German filmmaker imprisoned for exposing dire Qatar World Cup worker conditions;
2013-10-19: Emerging Challenges: What’s In Store for the New Global Powers, Part 1;
2013-10-20: How the FBI Manipulates Grand Juries to Intimidate Political Dissidents and Radicals;
2013-10-20: This Land is Our Land?
2013-10-21: Patrick Henningsen;
2013-10-22: Economic uncertainty and the effectiveness of monetary policy;
2013-10-23: Let’s Get This Class War Started;
2013-10-24: Reports document US slaughter of civilians in drone strikes;
2013-10-25: Why Washington Can’t Stop;
2013-10-26: US: is there really a majority in favor of marijuana legalization?
2013-10-27: we move forward, in any way;
2013-10-28: Lessons from Iceland: Capitalism, Crisis, and Resistance;
2013-10-29: Albert Einstein Online;
2013-10-30: US Political Dysfunction and Capitalism’s Withdrawal;
2013-10-31: India: Taken Over by Foreign Banks?
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Published on Global Research.ca, by Kavaljit Singh, Oct 29, 2013.
On October 12, Raghuram Rajan, the new Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, announced that the RBI will soon issue new rules allowing a more liberal entry of foreign banks in India. “That is going to be a big opening because one could even contemplate taking over Indian banks, small Indian banks and so on,” he stated in Washington at an event organized by the Institute of International Finance, a global banking lobby group. Continue Reading…
Published on e-International Relations, by Richard D. Wolff, October 27, 2013.
After 200 years of concentrating its centers in western Europe, north America, and Japan, capitalism is moving most of its centers elsewhere and especially to China, India, Brazil and so on. This movement poses immense problems of transition at both poles. The classic problems of early, rapid capitalist industrialization are obvious daily in the new centers. What we learn about early capitalism when we read Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Maxim Gorky and Jack London, we see now again in the new centers. Continue Reading…