politics for the 99%

• The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy, 57.26 min, uploaded by SkriptaTV, Feb 12, 2015 – his book/same title: on  Zed Books, London, 2013; on amazon; on Google Web-search … followed by other videos in autoplay;
• Yanis Varoufakis on February 5, 2015, 9.58 min, uploaded by Podemos ecoLogicos, Feb 10, 2015;
• All the good stuff that cannot be measured, 19.59 min, uploaded by SkriptaTV, Feb 7, 2015 (first on Democratic Underground);
• Chinese credit speculation, the Greek debt crisis and US earnings woes, 27.46 min, uploaded by Boom Bust, Jan 28, 2015;
• Who is Yanis Varoufakis? 2.10 min, uploaded by CNNMoney, Jan 28, 2015;  
• Why I am running for election in Greece on the SYRIZA ticket, 27.54 min, uploaded by Boom Bust, Jan 12, 2015: Since 2000, more than $140 billion of high-yield debt has been issued by US oil and gas companies in order to finance their drilling and exploration programs. Investors who put their money behind riskier oil and gas companies now face the threat of losing out. That’s because some borrowers will likely seek new financing that will be secured against the same assets which backed general claims protecting unsecured creditors of previously issued high-yielding deb …;
• Confessions of an Erratic Marxist, 97.07 min, uploaded by SkriptaTV, May 17, 2013 (first on Democratic Underground);
• The Global Minotaur: The Crash of 2008 and the Euro-Zone Crisis in Historical Perspective, 94.26 min, uploaded by columbiauniversity, Nov 11, 2011;
• The Greek Gauntlet, 20.48 min, uploaded by The Agenda with Steve Paikin, Nov 8, 2011;

Economy and Greek Dept Related Links:

• White elephants in the room: How EU projects blow billions of euros amidst austerity talks, on Russia Today RT, Feb 22, 2015;
• Podcast: Leo Panitch on Syriza and Greece, 26.06 min, on Political Economy, Michal Rozworski interviews Leo Panitch, Feb 21, 2015 – Book: The Making of Global Capitalism, The Political Economy of American Empire, by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin;
• Two New Papers Say Big Finance Sectors Hurt Growth and Innovation, on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, Feb 19, 2015;
• Yanis Varoufakis on en.wikipedia;

Plan B, on Wissensmanufaktur.net, by Andreas Popp and Rico Albrecht, November 2011:

• deutsch: plan-b.pdf;
• english: plan-b-english.pdf;
• español: plan-b-español.pdf;
• nederlands: plan-b-nederlands.pdf;
• italiano: plan-b-italiano.pdf;
• russian: plan-b-russisch.pdf.

Other Links:

Hillary Clinton Exposed Part 1 – How She Aggressively Lobbied for Mega Corporations as Secretary of State, on Washington’s Blog, submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, Feb 21, 2015;

Not Very Funny, on Washington’s Blog, by David Swanson, Feb 21, 2015;

935 Lies, Two Wars, A Million Deaths, One Trillion Dollars, ISIS, Brian Williams? on Democratic Underground, Feb 21, 2015;

Beyond Al-Jazeera, on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Salah Nasrawi, Feb 19, 2015: The Cairo-Doha dispute goes much deeper than the anti-Egyptian media blitz being orchestrated by Qatar;

Africa: Where are the people who are going to change things? on Pambazuka News, by Mary Serumaga, Feb 17, 2015: Africa often seems to be stuck in an endless cycle of dictators, rancid revolutionaries and false dawns. But genuine champions of change exist, some great others quite ordinary people;

L’armée Camérounaise arrête 8 soldats français combattant aux côtés de Boko Haram, dans Africéleb, par Dogane, le 3 février 2015;

… and this:

• Jewish Klezmer Music, 52.58 min, uploaded by Traditional Music Channel, March 1, 2014;
• Klezmer music: Budapest Klezmer Band, 30.07 min, uploaded by Tamás Molnár, April 4, 2013: produced by Cinema Studio Budapest, Hungary;
• Klezmer Early Yiddish Instrumental Music 1908-1927, 74.31 min, uploaded by mightysmeagol, Nov 11, 2011;
• New York Klezmer Band Brooklyn NY, 47.27 min, uploaded by Mikhail Smirnov, April 30, 2011.