politics for the 99%

• Ecuadorian Embassy break-in: Police took 2hrs to reach building where Assange is holed up, 3.01 min, uploaded by RT, Aug 23, 2016 … Ecuador has criticized British police for their slow response to a call reporting that an unknown man was trying to break into at its London embassy, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been living for four years;
• Assange kill attempt? Unknown man climbs Ecuador’s London embassy, sheltering WikiLeaks chief, on RT, Aug 22, 2016;
• Julian Assange’s Lawyer Found Dead After Being Struck by Train (Video), on Truth Uncensored, by Jennifer Johnson, Aug 19, 2016;
• Exklusives RT-Interview mit Assange – Hat WikiLeaks Dokumente, die Hillary ins Gefängnis bringen? 27.44 min, von RT Deutsch auf YouTube, am 13. Aug 2016: Afshin Rattansi begrüßt in seiner RT-Sendung Going Underground den WikiLeaks-Gründer Julian Assange zum Interview …;
• Julian Assange: My Next Leak Will Ensure Hillary’s Arrest, on YourNewsWire, by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, July 24, 2016;  

Other Links:

Want to help 1.6 million households in extreme debt? Raise their incomes, on Left Foot Forward, by Geoff Tily, Aug 24, 2016: Austerity has fuelled a personal debt boom caused by low incomes and wages;

The Working Class, Saskatchewan’s Political Orphan, on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1295, by J. F. Conway, Aug 23, 2016;

The canyon between the rich and the rest of us, on Socialist Worker.org, by Leela Yellesetty, Aug 23, 2016: Michael Yates’ new book documents the growing concentration of wealth at the very top of society–and points to how the rest of us can respond;

Our 10 pledges to rebuild and transform Britain, 2.15 min, on Jeremy For Labour;
(also on YouTube with it’s Official Jeremy Corbyn Channel);

India deploys troops in Kashmir, on Axis of Logic, by Staff Writers, Aug 23, 2016;

Burqa Ban Debate, Full Veils Already Mostly Prohibited in Germany, on Spiegel Online International, by Jan Friedmann, Dietmar Hipp and Conny Neumann, Aug 22, 2016: Some conservative German politicians would like to see a ban on burqas and other veils. Doing so, however, would likely violate the constitution – and there are plenty of practical rules already in place;

Fear Unveiled, Why Banning the Burqa Makes No Sense, on Spiegel Online International, by Christiane Hoffmann, Aug 22, 2016: Calls in Germany to ban the burqa are misguided and the move would do little to liberate Muslim women. The fight for emancipation must come from inside the religion;

Canada, Saskatchewan: A special report on race and power, on MacLean’s.ca, by Nancy Macdonald, July 29, 2016: how many Indigenous people are in positions of power in Saskatchewan? We surveyed 265 of the most powerful people in the province. The results are shocking;

Class War in the U.K. Labour Party, on Worker’s Action, by Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer, July 29, 2016;

Deutschland eine US Kolonie, 28.22 min, von Politk In Deutschland am 16. Juni 2016 … mit Sahra Wagenknecht bei Maybrit Illner;

… and this:

• Euro-Divers Hurghada Tauchsafari, 28.45 min, uploaded by Janine Glaser, … Sept/Okt 2014 Süd-Tour.