politics for the 99%

Published on ZNet, by Brian Terrell, September 14, 2013.

… My own anti-drone activism began with protests at Creech Air Force Base in the Nevada desert in April, 2009. Even some otherwise well informed people were skeptical, back then, that such things were even possible, much less happening daily. Many who were aware accepted the simple and happy narrative of drone warfare as a precise new high-tech system in which soldiers from a safe distance of thousands of miles can pin point those who mean us imminent harm with little or no collateral damage.   Continue Reading…

The country’s top economic thinkers urge the President to appoint the best woman for the job – Published on AlterNet/ECONOMY, by Lynn Stuart Parramore, September 13, 2013.

… While there are many reasons to select Janet Yellen for this position, we would like to emphasize three of them.

Dr. Yellen is superbly qualified. She has shown consistently good judgment in all her roles leading our nation’s financial institutions and economic policy, first as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System FED/FRB, then as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and now as Vice Chair of the FRB.  Continue Reading…

• Geld – ganz einfach erklärt, 13.05 min, von Verkehrte Welt am 18. August 2013 hochgeladen;
• So funktioniert unser Finanzsystem wirklich, 59.57 min,  von InfokriegerBerlin am 5. Januar 2011 hochgeladen;
• Finanzkollaps: überflüssige Konten sollten aufgelöst werden, 6.01 min, von conrebbi am 27. Mai 2013 hochgeladen.

… as well as provide the right answers – Published on Left Foot Forward, by Simon Ravenscroft, Sept 12, 2013.

This government has repeatedly shown itself incapable of thinking beyond the level of the individual. In doing so it has sidelined questions about the kind of society that its policies are creating. This is its chief ideological victory. To the extent the left gets dragged into debating questions posed on the level of the individual, it has already lost the main argument. Instead it should be seeking to ask its own questions.   Continue Reading…

… en juillet 2000 … Jean Lassalle raconte, 12.42 min, son premier ‘acte’ de plus jeune maire de France (21 ans) de Lourdios-Ichère, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, mis sur YouTube par Les Ateliers Labarde, May 13, 2013.

Published on Activist Post, by Eric Blair, Sept 8, 2013.

Although the elite still enjoy a huge wealth advantage over the masses, they are now resigned to behaving like tyrants to maintain control. This, in turn, exposes their dark side which has been cleverly concealed for ages. Not anymore. People are waking up in droves, at least as fast as the elite can build their full-spectrum prison matrix.  Let them try.  To paraphrase Victor Hugo, “No army can stop an idea whose time has come.”  Continue Reading…

• Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, 110.59 min, with Philip G. Zimbardo, uploaded on YouTube by infiniteinfiniteinfi, June 10, 2012. See also the same video on MITvideo;
• Easy Rider Ending, 1.54 min, uploaded by dw declare,  March 4, 2013.  Easy Rider on en.wikipedia; complet Film on YouTube-search.

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… and more than 50 years until women are equally represented in parliaments around the world according to a new report by the VSO – Published on Left Food Forward, by Ben Mackay, Sept 10, 2013.

The sheer scale of the under-representation of women across parliaments and governments will be a wake up call to all those who think that the battle for women’s rights has been won.

At a national level the divergence between male and female representation is striking. Out of 193 heads of government around the world only 13 are women whilst just one in five of the world’s parliamentarians is a woman … // Continue Reading…

• Intl experts have strong proof images of chemical victims fabricated … on Russia Today RT, September 10, 2013.
• Follow RT’s Syria chemical weapons crisis: LIVE UPDATES;   Continue Reading…

• Volker Pispers vs Angela Merkel, 11.09.2011, 29.16 min, von GOHWEST am 13. September 2011 hochgeladen;
• Eine (Zeit)Reise in feiner Gesellschaft – CIA, Al Kaida und Kohl, 13.04 min, von Cartoonarama am 6. August 2013 hochgeladen: Wohin steuern wir? Wer steuert uns … und darf der das?
• Kosten- / Nutzenrechnung für unsere Gesellschaft, 16.25 min, von Cartoonarama am 7. Juni 2013 hochgeladen;
• Wählen allein hilft doch nicht weiter, 60.59 min, von MrMarxismo am 26. März 2013 hochgeladen.

Published on Counter Information/J. PEREZ’ blog, by Michael Sallah, Debbie Cenziper, Steven Rich, Sept. 8, 2013.

(Photo) … This man owed $ 134 in property taxes. The district sold the liden to an investor who foreclosed on his $ 197′000 house and sold it. He and many other homeowners like him were LEFT WITH NOTHING.

… On the day Bennie Coleman lost his house, the day armed U.S. marshals came to his door and ordered him off the property, he slumped in a folding chair across the street and watched the vestiges of his 76 years hauled to the curb.   Continue Reading…

Interview with Samir Amin published on Pambazuka News, by Beifang/China, Sept 5, 2013.

On 15 July 2013 Samir Amin was interviewed by Beifang, China. He expressed his views that the action of the army was not a coup d’etat as well as the tasks facing the popular movement in Egypt.

The Muslim Brotherhood rule lasted just over a year, why did the collapse come so soon?

• AMIN: The fall of Morsi and of the rule of Muslim Brothers came as expected. Firstly, the government of the Muslim Brothers has been pursuing the same neoliberal policies as that of Mubarak, and even worse. It could not solve any problem faced by the Egyptian people.   Continue Reading…

Published on OpEdNews OEN, by Medea Benjamin, Sept 5, 2013.

It was September 19, 2002, and US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was scheduled to address the Senate Armed Services Committee about why it was necessary to invade a country that never attacked us: Iraq.

I was so concerned about the pending war that I flew to Washington DC from my home in San Francisco. It was the first congressional hearing I had ever witnessed.  Continue Reading…

The leaders of World’s largest nations speak out against US-led strike, on RT, Sept 6, 2013: As leaders of countries making up half of the world’s population firmly opposed military action against Syria without a UN mandate, the US kept pushing for a strike, claiming that many countries represented at the G20 summit were “comfortable” with it … (full text with short statement of each BRICS-leader, with photo * and graph **).   Continue Reading…

• Wer bekommt schon was er verdient? 44.15 min, von Applicas Media am 20. August 2013 hochgeladen;
• Deutscher oder Türke? Doppelpass oder Stammtisch? 8.10 min,  (Juni.2013), von Hetzenjagd am 2. Juli 2013 hochgeladen;
• Zum Ausgang der Bundestagswahl 2013, 4.54 min, von GOHWEST am 9. April 2013 hochgeladen
• Audio – Hörspiel: BIS NEULICH, 2012, 109.38 min, von herrjablonski am 10 Februar 2013.

Published on Intrepid Report, by Ellen Brown, J.D., September 6, 2013.

Iraq and Libya have been taken out, and Iran has been heavily boycotted. Syria is now in the cross-hairs. Why? Here is one overlooked scenario …
In an August 2013 article, titled “Larry Summers and the Secret ‘End-game’ Memo,” Greg Palast posted evidence of a secret late-1990s plan devised by Wall Street and U.S. Treasury officials to open banking to the lucrative derivatives business. To pull this off required the relaxation of banking regulations not just in the US but globally. The vehicle to be used was the Financial Services Agreement of the World Trade Organization.  Continue Reading…

Published on Worker’s Action, by Shamus Cooke, Sept 1, 2013.

It’s now painfully clear that Obama’s war on Syria is a replay of Bush’s march to war in Iraq, both built on lies. Zero evidence has been put forth that proves the Syrian government used chemical weapons. On the contrary, evidence has been recorded that suggests the U.S.-backed Syrian rebels are responsible for the attack.

If Obama wages an aggressive attack on Syria — especially without UN authorization — he’ll be committing a major international crime that will, by any standard, make him a war criminal, just like Bush before him.   Continue Reading…

Interview with Gordon Duff – Published on Russia Today RT, September 3, 2013.

The US government has no more credibility with the American people and the military that are “sick and tired” of war which has now lasted for 13 years, Gordon Duff, a marine veteran has told RT.

As President Barack Obama is seeking support from Congress for military action in Syria, anti-war sentiment among the population is growing. Earlier last week, images emerged on social media purporting to show US servicemen speaking out against a looming strike against Damascus.   Continue Reading…

Video mit Andreas Popp, 80,35 min, von Applicas Media am 3. August hochgeladen.

Published on Global Research.ca, by Prof Michel Chossudovsky, August 31, 2013.

… Syria occupies a strategic location in the Middle East. The war on Syria is part of a roadmap of military undertakings. It is an integral part of a broader US-NATO-Israel military agenda directed not only against Iran, but also against Russia and China. Moreover, it is part of an extended military agenda which consists in establishing control over Middle East-Central Asian oil reserves as well as strategic oil and gas pipelines.  Continue Reading…

Published on openDemocracy, by KHALDOON AHMED, August 19, 2013.

Pakistan is a country standing at the crossroads. From Karachi to Peshawar, a series of snapshots provides a glimpse into the dangerous inequalities and snatches of hope that fill Pakistani life. I was born in London, but used to visit Pakistan with my family during the summer holidays. In March 2013, I travelled from Karachi in the South, to Peshawar in the North. I took a notebook and a camera, and saw a Pakistan I had not seen before. Here are ten people I met.   Continue Reading…

Grundeinnkommen: DER FILM, 98.46 min, von LaberrhabarberPF am 12. Dezember 2010 hochgeladen.
In Deutschland erhalten 4 von 10, = 41% der Menschen, ihr Einkommen durch bezahlte Arbeit.
2 von 10 leben von einer Rente oder Pension,
3 von 10 leben vom Einkommen ihrer Angehörigen (Familie),
1 von 10 erhalten Arbeitslosengeld/Sozialhilfe
d.h. 59% der Deutschen leben von Transferleistungen.

Book-Review for Social Democracy After the Cold War, edited by Bryan Evans and Ingo Schmidt, 2012, Edmonton: AU Press – Published on new Socialist, by James Cairns, August 30, 2013.

The nine chapters in the edited collection Social Democracy After the Cold War describe the development of that trend and analyze its relevance for anti-capitalists. It claims to provide “a comprehensive examination of a politics that has come to be identified as the ‘new’ social democracy.” Comprehensive is a bold word and isn’t the best descriptor of a book that offers case studies of social democracy without including chapters on experiences in Southern Europe (think Greece and Portugal) or anywhere on the Asian, African or South American continents.   Continue Reading…

Volker Pispers: Das politische Elend in Deutschland, 8.31 min, von Deepskies am 27. Juni 2008 hochgeladen: doch, auch heute noch gültig.

a centennial update with additions from long wave theory and Karl Polanyi’s Great Transformation – Published on Linke Zeitung (left journal), by Ingo Schmidt, August 15, 2013.

The period of economic and political crises that began with the Wall Street crash in 2007 in many ways resembles the conditions of global capitalism at the time Rosa Luxemburg published her Accumulation of Capital. This article argues that Luxemburg’s political economy entails the theoretical tools necessary to understand capitalist development since the early 20th century and that capitalism indeed faces as great a crisis as it did at that time.   Continue Reading…