politics for the 99%

State Multiculturalism, Cultural Diplomacy and the EU Crisis – A Panel Discussion, 58.26 min, uploaded by IPAHP, Oct 29, 2014;
(website: Inter-Parliamentary Alliance for Human Rights & Global Peace IPAHP).

Speakers:   Continue Reading…

Published on BBCnews, Nov 1, 2015.

The data showed a “worrying trend” of part-time, female and young workers being most likely to earn below the figure, researchers found.

The living wage, promoted by the Living Wage Foundation, is currently £7.85 an hour and £9.15 in London. It is not compulsory for employers to pay it … // Continue Reading…

Published on Inequality.org, by Scott Klinger and Sarah Anderson, Oct 29, 2015: 100 CEOs have as much in retirement assets as 41 percent of all American families;

… Key findings

The Top 100:   Continue Reading…

2015-10-01: THE DECIDER CLASS – gatekeepers in the system;
2015-10-02: VW Scandal, time for German Industry to abandon its Arrogance;
2015-10-03: Irresponsible Putin bashing following his UN address;
2015-10-04: MH17 – why the investigation will never end, the evidence never seen;
2015-10-04: die Welt von Erich von Däniken;
2015-10-04: Ethik oder Etat, sind unsere Werte nur Börsenwerte?
2015-10-05: Syria versus America;
2015-10-06: Europe: two thirds of EU states reject GMO crops, file cultivation opt-out requests;
2015-10-07: After All We Did For Them in Fallujah;
2015-10-08: Could The Syrian Conflict Irrevocably Change Global Geopolitics?
2015-10-09: Syria Military Review: Studying the Russian Military Operation;
2015-10-10: The Trans Pacific Partnership TPP on Environment and Labour;
2015-10-11: Nietzsche, Europe And The German Question;
2015-10-12: The Trans-Pacific Free-Trade Charade;
2015-10-13: The Demonology School of Journalism, Putin and the Press;
2015-10-14: All Rights Reserved: Now We Know the Final TTP is Everything We Feared;
2015-10-15: Could basic income solve APAC wealth inequality?
2015-10-15: US: more and more deaths of holistic doctors M.D.;
2015-10-16: A Decisive Shift in the Power Balance Has Occurred;
2015-10-17: Decadence and Madness at the Top: Inside Britain’s Secretive Bullingdon Club;
2015-10-18: Germany’s Refugee Challenge: It’s Mostly the Politicians Who Have Been Overwhelmed;
2015-10-19: Shaker Aamer’s case represents skewed US-UK relationship, says Conservative MP;
2015-10-20: Migrant Crisis In Croatia Widens Political Rift – Plans For Coup d’état Suspected;
2015-10-21: ADHD – alternative treatments to medication;
2015-10-22: Dispatches: EU Border Closures Leave Asylum Seekers Stranded;
2015-10-23: Privatization of the US Prison System;
2015-10-24: The Syrianization of Turkey;
2015-10-25: Nice No More: The End of the German Fairytale;
2015-10-26: Truth About 9/11 Would Take Down the US as a Global Empire;
2015-10-27: Isis in Iraq: Peshmergas have new weapon in fight against militants – the ability to read;
2015-10-28: Indigenous Peoples’ History of the USA;
2015-10-29: Deutschland von oben / Germany from above;
2015-10-30: Refugee crisis: Last influx to fortress Europe cross Austrian border before route closes;
2015-10-31: Game-changer: European Parliament votes in favor of dropping charges against Snowden;
2015-10-31: Basic Income BIG – Revenu de Base – Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen BGE, October 1 – 31, 2015.
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See also this page: All articles sorted chronologically.

related articles published during Octobre 2015: (continuously updated …) Continue Reading…

Published on Russia Today RT, Oct 29, 2015;

The majority of European Parliament members have voted in favor of asking constituent states to grant protection to whistleblower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who has described the move as a ‘game-changer’ and a ‘chance to move forward’ … // Continue Reading…

ACTUALLY – RT on Air: tensions at the Slovenian-Austrian border …

Published on The Independent.co.uk, by Jamie Merrill, Oct 29, 2015.

Kawphar Zangana would not say how his wife died. It was too much for him. “They [Isis] took her from me in Iraq. Now I can only help my children get to Germany.”   Continue Reading…

… in five videos – can be seen without understanding the german spoken explanations – uploaded by P.-Călin A., 2014:   Continue Reading…

uploaded by LeftStreamed, Oct 2015: part 1/5, 30.37 min; part 2/5, 10.25 min; part 3/5, 11.54 min; part 4/5, 08.57 min; part 5/5, 16.01 min … (also on Socialist Project;   Continue Reading…

… an inability to understand signs can cost fighters their lives – night school aims to change that – Published on The Independent.co.uk, by Cathy Otten, Oct 25, 2015.

A student looks diligently up at his teacher and then down at an exercise book filled with rows of letters. Shkur Miro and the rest of the men listening carefully to what their teacher tells them are Peshmerga fighters, taking a break from the war with Isis. Continue Reading…

Published on Global Research.ca, by Kevin Barrett, Oct 20, 2015 (with video, 5.55 min … and the book link about).

The truth about the September 11, 2001 terror attacks would not only destabilize the American political system but it would also take down the US as a global empire, an American scholar says.   Continue Reading…

Published on Spiegel Online International, a commentary by Markus Feldenkirchen, Oct 20, 2015.

The World Cup scandal brought to light by SPIEGEL serves as a reminder that Germany is nowhere near as perfect as it had started to look – ironically, around the time of that historic “fairytale summer” … //

… With its social market economy, Germany also appeared to have defied the law of capitalism that requires one to be a little coarse and unscrupulous in order to prevail. Continue Reading…

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1175, by Sungur Savran, Oct 19, 2015.

The immense catastrophe that struck Turkey in the streets of Ankara, the capital city, on 10 October, when two bombs exploded in the midst of a thronging crowd of what would possibly turn out to be hundreds of thousands of people, leading to the death of an indefinite number of people, in any case exceeding one hundred, and the wounding of hundreds, some still under the risk of death, is a sharp reminder, if any were needed, that this is a country undergoing a severe political crisis … // Continue Reading…

Published on Global Research.ca, Oct 20, 2015.
(See also Arrest Records).

The following infographic shows us how profitable the US prison industry is. “Between 1980 and 1994, profits went up from $392 million to $1.31 billion” dollars. As reported in The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?, inmates, mostly Blacks and Hispanics, are also being exploited by various industries: Continue Reading…

REPORT from Human Rights Watch HRW - Published on relief web.int, by Lydia Gall, Oct 20, 2015.

We are stuck between two borders. We can’t enter Slovenia and we are not allowed to go back into Croatia. Everyone says we are someone else’s responsibility.”

25-year-old Hadi from Syria was shivering as we spoke. He said he had been stuck for nearly 20 hours, exposed to rain and cold in the no-man’s land between the Croatian and Slovenian borders. I met him there last night, together with hundreds of other migrants and asylum seekers, including many women and children, who were brought from Croatia’s Tavornik camp at about 1 a.m. the morning before.   Continue Reading…

Medication rates high for ADHD sufferers – Published on JMU (Liverpool UK), by Amy Cole, Oct 19, 2015.

Medication for Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder [ADHD] is being heavily prescribed across Merseyside, with statistics showing Wirral ranking second highest in the country … //

… Dr Tony Lloyd from the Liverpool-based ADHD Foundation says that medication isn’t always the best option and can cause reliance on a pill for a chronic condition.
He told JMU Journalism: “Sadly, in most parts of the country, medication is the first and only line of treatment.”
Blame is quick to fall on doctors for overprescribing and not offering alternative treatments and therapies … // Continue Reading…

Published Croatia, the War and the Future, by Ina Vukic, Oct 18, 2015.

More than 190,000 refugees and migrants have crossed into Croatia over the past month and assisted to cross over Hungary to richer European countries (383,000 have crossed Hungary so far this year). At midnight Friday 16 October Hungary sealed its border with Croatia and, hence, refugees making their way to Hungary from Croatia can no longer contemplate that route. Continue Reading…

Published on Middle East Eye MEE, Oct 17, 2015.

British resident Shaker Aamer has been imprisoned without charge by US authorities since 2001.

A senior UK politician will be taking part in a hunger strike to show support for the last British resident held at the US run Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba.   Continue Reading…

Interview with integration specialist Naika Foroutan – Published on Spiegel Online International, by Frank Hornig and Maximilian Popp, Okt 14, 2015: Doubt has lately begun creeping into the German refugee debate, but integration specialist Naika Foroutan says that the new Germany has sent its message loudly and clearly: We can absorb the refugees … //

… SPIEGEL: Will competition for jobs increase?   Continue Reading…

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Christoph Scheuermann, Oct 15, 2015:

They drink heavily, shatter champagne flutes and smash furniture — before moving on to positions of leadership. The elite Bullingdon Club is an exclusive haven for Britain’s rich and powerful. But members don’t like to talk about it.   Continue Reading…

Published on Abel Danger, by Paul Craig Roberts, Oct 11, 2015.

“Information Clearing House” – The world is beginning to realize that a sea change in world affairs occurred on September 28 when President Putin of Russia stated in his UN speech that Russia can no longer tolerate Washington’s vicious, stupid, and failed policies that have unleashed chaos which is engulfing the Middle East and now Europe. Two days later, Russia took over the military situation in Syria and began the destruction of the Islamic State forces … // Continue Reading…

what happens?

US: The lead investigative reporter in the case of 11 holistic doctors that have died mysteriously within the last 90 days:
Mysterious Death of Holistic Doctors Uncovered, 7.54 min, uploaded by WeAreChange, Oct 9, 2015 … in this video Luke Rudkowski interviews Erin Elizabeth of health nut news;   Continue Reading…

Published on Deal Street Asia, by Shiwen Yap, Oct 12, 2015.

With its fragmented economies, diverse language and geographies, as well as differing developmental status, the Asia Pacific (APAC) region is often seen as a challenging regional economy for businesses to operate in. Another major issue is the wealth inequality seen across the region, especially in major economies like India, the Philippines and Indonesia.   Continue Reading…

Published on counterpunch, by Jeremy Malcolm, Oct 13, 2015.

… Since we now have the agreed text, we’ll be including some paragraph references that you can cross-reference for yourself – but be aware that some of them contain placeholders like ‘x’ that may change in the cleaned-up text.

Also, our analysis here is limited to the copyright and Internet-related provisions of the chapter, but analyses of the impacts of other parts of the chapter have been published by Wikileaks and others. Continue Reading…

Published on Dissident Voice, by James Petras, October 11, 2015.

… Putin: Demon or Realist, Autocrat or Democrat, Vassal or Independent Leader?

• The Western media has backed every oligarch, gangster, and fraudster who has gone on trial and been convicted during Putin’s term in office. The propagandists tell us the reason for this affinity between the Western media and the gangster-oligarchs is that these convicted felons, who claim to be ‘political dissidents’ and critics of Putin’s rule, have been dispossessed, and jailed for upholding ‘Western values’.   Continue Reading…