politics for the 99%

• What Videos Tell Us About Charlie Hebdo Paris Attack Gunmen, 4.42 min, uploaded by Sky News, Jan 7, 2015: Sky’s Foreign Affairs Editor Sam Kiley explains why the behaviour of the Paris gunmen shows they’ve been trained in the use of weapons, and may have killed before. Full story. (My comment: I do NOT believe that the young Jihadists depicted during the men hunt had this military ability. And now, are we lied like in the 9/11-story? – Heidi);
• Charlie Hebdo gunmen ‘had military level training’, 1.51 min, uploaded by The Telegraph, Jan 8, 2015;
• Video: Eva Herman und Andreas Popp über Charlie Hebdo und tiefere Ursachen, Interview auf RT Deutsch, 13.25 min, von Wissensmanufaktur am 8. Januar 2015 auf YouTube hochgeladen: Interview auf RT deutsch über Charlie Hebdo und Systemursachen;
• Video: Je Suis Charlie (S2E65), 27.07 min, on Russia Today RT, Jan 12, 2015: we look at the double standards surrounding ‘Je suis Charlie,’ and why some terror acts never gain such awareness …;
• Erosion of free speech? Cameron pledges to ban Snapchat and WhatsApp, on Russia Today RT, Jan 12, 2015;  
• Pumping up fear over selective terror while ignoring state terror, on Intrepid Report, by Douglas Valentine, Jan 9, 2015: Selective terror achieves political & psychological goals that state terror does not …;

Other Links:

Yanis Varoufakis: Why He is Running for Greek Parliament on the Syriza Ticket, on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, Jan 13, 2015;

Richard Alford: The Fed’s Dual Mandate – “Pirate Code” or “Alice in Wonderland”? on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, Jan 13, 2015;

The Fed’s and Republicans’ War Against Dodd Frank and How That Preserves the Greenspan Put and Too Big to Fail, on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, Jan 12, 2015;

Social Movement Unionism or Social Justice Unionism? Disentangling Theoretical Confusion within the Global Labor Movement – Abstract, on Class, Race and Corporate Power FIU.edu, by Kim Scipes of the Purdue Univ. North Central, Vol 2/Issue 3, 2014;
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