politics for the 99%

Published on Real-World Economics Review Blog RWER, by Editor, Aug 4, 2015.

The answer depends on what we mean by capital accumulation. The common view of this process is deeply utilitarian. Capitalists, we are told, seek to maximize their so-called ‘real wealth’: they try to accumulate as many machines, structures, inventories and intellectual property rights as they can … // Continue Reading…

Published on MrZine.org, by Victor Grossman, Aug 2, 2015.

“I don’t know.” Those words, often repeated 160-odd years ago in the USA, earned the gang of those using them the nickname “Know-Nothing Party.” Those were no expressions of intellectual modesty; party doings were secret, so members were not supposed to disclose anything about them, but just say, “I don’t know.” Their patriotic title was actually “American Party,” but many members truly knew almost nothing except that they hated immigrants, especially Catholic Germans and Irish, and wanted to bar them from entry, from citizenship and from the vote. Continue Reading…

Published on Montreal Gazette, by Donna Nebenzahl, Aug 1, 2015.

… The beds of this Action Communiterre collective garden in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce are already yielding lettuce, Swiss chard, peas, nasturtiums and a variety of herbs, along with raspberries from the bushes that form a pollinating garden around the edges of the space. The runner beans are climbing above the carrots, marigolds grow alongside eggplant, and peppers and tomatoes are being tied to strings attached to the wood frames that support them. Continue Reading…

Published on Perry G. Mehrling, by blog owner, July 31, 2015.

In the last few weeks, the ECB has been drawing on its liquidity swap line with the Fed, first $308 million for a week, then $658 million for a week, and last week back down to $358 million. What’s that about? … // Continue Reading…

Published on The Economic Times, by Yogima Sharma, August 1, 2015.

NEW DELHI: The government will likely put some money in your bank account every month if it goes ahead with a proposal currently being considered at the highest levels. The plan is to expand the direct cash transfer scheme, by deducting a portion of the subsidy each family receives through various government welfare schemes and putting an equivalent amount of cash in the account of the beneficiary … // Continue Reading…

Published on Global Research.ca, by Stephen Lendman, July 26, 2015.

When investing becomes gambling, bad endings follow. The next credit crunch could make 2008-09 look mild by comparison. Bank of International Settlements(BIS) data show around $700 trillion in global derivatives.   Continue Reading…

2015-07-01: Syriza, the Troika and the ironies;
2015-07-02: Interview: Greek Bailout Saved Bankers, But Punished the People;
2015-07-03: announcing Greece’s referendum on July 5;
2015-07-04: Germany from above – Deutschland von oben;
2015-07-05: A Revolutionary Pope Calls for Rethinking the Outdated Criteria That Rule the World;
2015-07-06: Famous Google Images – Hunderwasser;
2015-07-07: Neither Greater Asia nor Greater Europe: America’s Chaos versus a Silk World Order;
2015-07-08: Greeks Vote NO – a rebuke to EU-imposed austerity;
2015-07-09: America’s Greece, fixing Puerto Rico could provide answers for Europe;
2015-07-10: real post card visions of Europe;
2015-07-11: Is Neoliberalism Finally Running Out of Tricks?
2015-07-12: Nigel Farage is gutted …;
2015-07-13: Vangelis and Irene Papas;
2015-07-14: Challenging Ideologies and Institutions;
2015-07-15: Progressives, Neoliberalism, and Austerity – beyond the Polanyian Impasse;
2015-07-16: USA – Jade Helm 15;
2015-07-17: Understanding the Defeat, Means Preparing a Victory – the Greek Dilemma and Us;
2015-07-18: the bankruptcy of the planet accelerates;
2015-07-19: Greece’s Lesson For Russia;
2015-07-20: the end of capitalism has begun …;
2015-07-21: Rasmin Banedj-Schafii;
2015-07-21: We’re part of this city;
2015-07-22: sharing the One Percent’s fantasmes – not seeing the corruption in it;
2015-07-23: Casualties in the War – New Research Confirms Vaccines Do Have a Dark Side;
2015-07-24: no grounds to keep Russia sanctions in place – French MPs visiting Crimea;
2015-07-24: Medikamenten Nothilfe Griechenland – Spendenaufruf;
2015-07-25: Education – Time for a New Purpose;
2015-07-26: Diary: The Great Unbinding;
2015-07-27: some divings in HD;
2015-07-27: Das Schuldenproblem Griechenland 2015;
2015-07-28: Greece and the European Union;
2015-07-29: Abenomics and Japan’s Narrowing Horizons – Marc Abela;
2015-07-30: Even if we scrap the Human Rights Act, we’ll still be beholden to EU laws – David Cameron;
2015-07-31: YouTube’s Mix for Joan Baez;
2015-07-31: Basic Income BIG – Revenu de Base – Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen BGE, JULY 1-31, 2015.
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See also this page: All articles sorted chronologically.

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

many videos, all ages, endless – in autoplay.

Published on The Telegraph.co.uk, by Matthew Scott, July 28, 2015: His plan for a British Bill of Rights will do nothing to reclaim our sovereignty – while his EU renegotiation ignores the real problem.

One thing that unites the vast majority of Conservative MPs is surely the belief that Parliament should be sovereign and the British Supreme Court should be supreme.   Continue Reading…

• Abenomics and Japan’s Narrowing Horizons – Marc Abela, 20.14 min, uploaded by misesmedia, Aug 15, 2014 … Jeff Deist and Marc Abela discuss the Bank of Japan’s failed twenty-five year program of monetary stimulus, the resulting creation of insolvent zombie banks, and the impossibility of Abenomics …;
• The Social Economic Enslavement Of Japan, 11.51 min, uploaded by WeAreChange, July 20, 2015 … in this video Luke Rudkowski interviews economist Marc Abela in Tokyo Japan. Marc has lived in Tokyo for over 25 years and gives an amazing interview about the hidden true social economic in Japan. We go from cultural norms to the TPP and U.S military involvement in the region …;   Continue Reading…

Published on Dissident Voice, by James Petras, July 26th, 2015.

The Greek people’s efforts to end the economic depression, recover their sovereignty and reverse the regressive socio-economic policies, which have drastically reduced living standards, have been thrice denied … //

… Colonialism by Invitation:   Continue Reading…

Griechenland – Volker Pispers Kabarett komplett, neu in HD, 159.30 min, von Entertainment Babe am 7. Juli 2015 hochgeladen … zu den Themen Kapitalismus, Merkel, Schuldenabbau und mehr, passend zur aktuellen Griechenland Debatte.

• Sharks, Manta Rays, Jelly Fish Lake & more, 9.39 min, uploaded by Lukas Walter, March 8, 2015 … diving Palau 2015 HD;
• El Gouna Ägypten, 26.46 min, von ps klappi am 3. Feb 2015 hochgeladen … u.a. Delfine u. Wrack Giannis D;
• uploaded by Phuket Dive Tours & Similan Liveaboards, Phuket Thailand HD: Go Pro in Phuket, 13.01 min, Oct 21, 2014; Anemone Reef HD, 2.09 min, Oct 19, 2014; King Cruiser Wreck, 1.58 min, Sept 29, 2014;
• Palau Diving Trip 2014, 19.50 min, uploaded by Nat Yisunsri, May 12, 2014;
• Mauritius, Diving Tauchen Plongée, 5.45 min, uploaded by Just Diving Mauritius, Aug 30, 2013.

Published on OpEdNews, by Derryl Hermanutz, July 2015:

Part 1, July 12, 2015: Private commercial banks exercise a near absolute monopoly on the primary issuance and allocation of money. Virtually all money is created out of nothing by banks and loaned into existence as government and private debt. Debt binds the nations in compliant submission while money buys the world at destitution prices. It doesn’t have to be this way. Monetary reform — breaking the bank debt-money monopoly — is the first step toward the solution … // Continue Reading…

Published on Dissident Voice, by Graham Peebles, July 23, 2015.

Given the catalogue of calamities raging round the world, one could be forgiven for concluding that we are a civilisation in terminal decline. The socio-economic system, which promotes negative divisive ideals, dominates all areas of life and is the cause of much of our difficulties. It is an outworn, unjust way of organising society; does not serve the majority of people – the 99.9%; and is causing far-reaching damage to the planet that, unless radical action is taken, may well prove irreparable … // Continue Reading…

Prof. Dr. Athanassios Giannis gab dem deutschen Journalismus-Portal KenFM ein Telefoninterview und verdeutlichte die aktuelle Situation in seinem Heimatland:

Stell Dir vor, Du bist ein griechisches Kind in Athen, wurdest von einem Auto angefahren und benötigst dringend medizinische Hilfe. Deine Mutter ist wie drei Millionen andere Griechen nicht mehr im Besitz einer Krankenversicherung. Sie kann sich die Policen nicht mehr leisten. Jetzt einen Krankenwagen zu rufen ist zudem ein Glücksspiel, denn ein Großteil der Infrastruktur wurde aus Kostengründen stillgelegt. Aber auch wenn es die Mutter mit ihrem Kind in ein Klinikum schaffen würde, selbst das wie am Spieß schreiende Kind müsste Wartezeiten von bis zu zwölf Stunden in Kauf nehmen, würde dann aber nur behandelt, wenn die Mutter das Geld für die Not-Operation vorab bar bezahlt. Continue Reading…

Published on Russia Today RT, July 23, 2015 (incl. two videos).

… “As the US is lifting Cuba blockades, I see no reasons for Europe to keep Russia sanctions in place,” Mariani told reporters after speaking at the Crimean Parliament in Simferopol on Thursday. He added that he felt the effect of sanctions as the delegation’s mobile phones stopped operating because European companies refuse to provide service in the area.   Continue Reading…

Published on Global Research.ca (first on GreeenMedInfo), by Celeste McGovern, July 22, 2015.

… Vaccine Lottery:

• But the thing about the Great Vaccine Blitz is most people have no idea what is on the line. Not public health. Not the doctors. Not even Shoenfeld and his band of specialists can tell you that your kid is going to be 100% fine when you pump him full of 49 vaccines or if there will be any long-term effects. Vaccines were invented when they didn’t know an immune system even existed and researchers have barely begun to unravel the mysteries of that microscopic universe. They don’t know which kids are going to react or why. They don’t even know the odds. The Greater Good is all well and fine so long as it’s not your kid that gets the Lesser Evil. Continue Reading…

AGAIN this article: The Class Logic Behind Austerity Policies In the Euro-Area, Can SYRIZA Put Forward a Progressive Alternative? – Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1124, by John Milios, June 1, 2015:
we go directly to
… 2. The Greek Case: Can SYRIZA Challenge Neoliberalism?
2.1 The financial gap of the Greek public sector: … // Continue Reading…

… cast of ‘The Wire’ used real Baltimoreans to shed light on unrest – Published on Russia Today RT, July 21, 2015.

Cast members from the acclaimed Baltimore-based series ‘The Wire’ have reunited this past weekend to tell the stories of real people in the city in the wake of unrest caused by the death of Freddie Gray. Continue Reading…

Ende der Manipulation – Geheimnisse der Menschheit aufgedeckt, 60.09 min, von Querdenken TV am 30. Mai 2015 hochgeladen: Rasmin Banedj-Schafii im Gespräch mit Michael Friedrich Vogt. Seit Anbeginn der Menschheit tobt ein Kampf um den Umgang mit den Erdenbewohnern. Nach dem das atlantische Reich unterging und die Hochtechnologie in Form der Hochkulturen neue Blüten hervorgebracht hatten ging das Spiel der Dualität in die nächste Runde. Continue Reading…

… instead over the past 25 years it has been the left’s project that has collapsed – Published on The Guardian, by Paul Mason, July 17, 2015.
(my comment: maybe capitalism ends, but it was only the tool to submit us … ending a tool is NOT ending automatically any submission, it may become even worse – Heidi).

… If you lived through all this, and disliked capitalism, it was traumatic. But in the process technology has created a new route out, which the remnants of the old left – and all other forces influenced by it – have either to embrace or die. Capitalism, it turns out, will not be abolished by forced-march techniques. It will be abolished by creating something more dynamic that exists, at first, almost unseen within the old system, but which will break through, reshaping the economy around new values and behaviours. I call this postcapitalism.   Continue Reading…

Published on Dissident Voice, by Paul Craig Roberts, July 17, 2015.

Greece’s lesson for Russia, and for China and Iran, is to avoid all financial relationships with the West. The West simply cannot be trusted. Washington is committed to economic and political hegemony over every other country and uses the Western financial system for asset freezes, confiscations, and sanctions. Countries that have independent foreign policies and also have assets in the West cannot expect Washington to respect their property rights or their ownership. Washington freezes or steals countries’ assets, or in the case of France imposes multi-billion dollar fines, in order to force compliance with Washington’s policies. Iran, for example, lost the use of $100 billion, approximately one-fourth of the Iranian GDP, for years simply because Iran insisted on its rights under the Non-Proliferation Treaty.   Continue Reading…

… 24 nations are currently facing a debt crisis – Published on Activist Post (first on Economic Collapse, May 17), by Michael Snyder, July 16, 2015.

There has been so much attention on Greece in recent weeks, but the truth is that Greece represents only a very tiny fraction of an unprecedented global debt bomb which threatens to explode at any moment.

As you are about to see, there are 24 nations that are currently facing a full-blown debt crisis, and there are 14 more that are rapidly heading toward one.   Continue Reading…