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Written on May 15th, 2014 in politics by heidi
Published on Russia Today RT, May 14, 2014.
The UN has voiced concerns over the apparent use of UN-marked helicopters by Kiev troops in their military operation against Donetsk regional militia. A video of a white-painted Mil Mi-24 strike helicopter with UN logo has emerged.
When inquired about the United Nations’ stance on the use of peacekeeper-marked military hardware in non-peacekeeper operations, the office for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s spokesperson said such use would violate UN rules. Continue Reading…
Written on May 14th, 2014 in politics by heidi
This article is part of an E-IR Edited Collection on Indigenous Self-Determination – Published on E-International Relations, by Marc Woons, May 13, 2014.
… The idea of restitution might do better to reflect colonialism’s lasting and irreversible impacts. Yet, it raises serious questions. What are the reasons for restitution? What would fair restitution entail? Who should receive restitution? How would it be determined? The list of questions is a lengthy one. Here, very different perspectives emerge between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. Whereas the former assert their inherent authority to self-determine, demand self-determination as a right, demand recognition of prior sovereignty, and demand respect for historical agreements, the latter typically believe that these claims should be reduced in favour of more limited state recognition and greater forms of redistribution in the form of funding or access to state programs. Continue Reading…
Written on May 13th, 2014 in politics by heidi
- Donetsk, Lugansk proclaim independence from Kiev, 3.59 min, uploaded by RT, May 12, 2014;
- Kev Baker Show: As Putin Pulls Troops Back … (Kiev)NATO Push On … Who Is Acting Like NAZIS Now? uploaded by TruthTube451 (AKA MrGlasgowTruther), May 7, 2014: Long version, 52,43 min, Excerpt of this long version, 5.47 min;
- Von Deutschland+Russland am 8. und am 10. Mai 2014 auf YouTube hochgeladen … und 85 weitere videos in autoplay: Russischer Blogger über Nazi-Staatsstreich in der Ukraine (2,7 Mio. Aufrufe in Russland), 25.54 min; Putin: Russland begrüßt den Vorschlag von Kanzlerin Merkel zu Lösung der Ukraine-Krise, 7.02 min; Continue Reading…
Written on May 12th, 2014 in politics by heidi
(UPDATE May 12, 2014: Rebels declare victory in east Ukraine poll, on english Al Jazeera, May 11, 2014: Pro-Russia separatists announce 89 percent of voters in Donetsk favoured self-rule, in referendum rejected by Kiev).
Egypt’s upcoming presidential polls will be heavily supervised by local judges and foreign monitors – Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Gamal Essam El-Din, May 8, 2014.
Seventy nine domestic civil society groups and five foreign organisations — the European Union (EU), the Arab League, the Carter Center, Transparency International and the US-based Democracy International (DI) — have been licensed to observe the presidential polls, says Abdel-Aziz Salman, spokesman for the Presidential Election Commission (PEC). Continue Reading…
Written on May 11th, 2014 in politics by heidi
Published on Axis of Logic, by Willima Blum, The Anti-Empire Report #128/williamblum.org, May 10, 2014.
So, what do we have here? In Libya, in Syria, and elsewhere the United States has been on the same side as the al-Qaeda types. But not in Ukraine. That’s the good news. The bad news is that in Ukraine the United States is on the same side as the neo-Nazi types, who – taking time off from parading around with their swastika-like symbols and calling for the death of Jews, Russians and Communists – on May 2 burned down a trade-union building in Odessa, killing scores of people and sending hundreds to hospital; many of the victims were beaten or shot when they tried to flee the flames and smoke; ambulances were blocked from reaching the wounded. Try and find an American mainstream media entity that has made a serious attempt to capture the horror[1] … // Continue Reading…
Written on May 10th, 2014 in politics by heidi
Interview with Kavita Krishnan, published on LINKS.org.au, by Mila Gisbert, May 8, 2014.
… It is now over a year since the Delhi case ignited people’s anger and led them to protest. What do you consider has been the main achievement of that movement?
- I would say the main achievement has been actually a shift in the way that rape is talked about. To me, the most significant thing about the protest was that there were slogans being raised against victim blaming, rape culture, and this was happening for the very first time, and to introduce the idea that the women should not be subjected to restrictions in the name of “chastity”. This was something new that was happening in India for the first time with this case.
- But I think that the changes we want to see are clearly yet to happen and not all of the changes were positive. Continue Reading…
Written on May 9th, 2014 in politics by heidi
Published on truthout, by Mike Ludwig, May 7, 2014.
A woman in New York City left a nightclub in late 2010 to meet some friends for tacos. While she was walking to the restaurant in the Queens neighborhood of Jackson Heights, a man pulled up beside her in a dark-colored car and began talking to her. As the woman inched closer to hear what the man was saying, two undercover police officers jumped out of a van and arrested her for engaging in prostitution. She was thrown into a van with a dozen other women and taken to the115th Precinct in Jackson Heights to be fingerprinted before being transferred to Central Booking. There, she was then jailed in the men’s unit, where she endured painful verbal harassment from some of the cops and men in custody, according to the community organizing group Make the Road New York, which identified the woman by the pseudonym “Natasha.” Continue Reading…
Written on May 8th, 2014 in politics by heidi
Published on Dissident Voice, by Peter Breschard, May 7, 2014.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Unalienable Rights. Self-evident Rights. You might say the modern definition of Human Rights springs directly from that unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. You probably wouldn’t be given much of an argument. Continue Reading…
Written on May 7th, 2014 in politics by heidi
update 8. Mai 2014: Gabriele Krone-Schmalz auf SWR-BR, 14.22 min, von senzaAkka am 4. Mai 2014 hochgeladen;
NDR/ZAPP: Das darf nicht sein, 24.12 min, von lore lorus am 16. April 2014 hochgeladen;
mein Kommentar: genau so läuft es, danke. – Jetzt aber noch ein Aergernis: da wird gefragt … “bei jenen, die nicht einverstanden sind, hat es doch all die Verweigerer, Verschwörungstheoretiker (hört sich an nach Lumpenpack) aber auch respektvolle Leute, die man ernst nehmen muss … danke sehr, Sie arroganter Kerl, wollen Sie uns noch mehr ärgern, hoffentlich noch mehr Briefe erhalten? Immer noch nichts gelernt? Ihnen wurde doch gerade etwas über Anstand erklärt? Ihr aristokratisches Schwarz-Weiss-Denken ist wohl immer noch intakt?
… Inzwischen geht die ganze Berichtserstattung genau so weiter, wie oben kritisiert – NICHTS GELERNT / NICHTS EINGESEHEN ?!! Continue Reading…
Written on May 7th, 2014 in politics by heidi
Published on Intrepid Report, by Wayne Madsen Report WMR, May 6, 2014.
President Obama reversed the largely “benign neglect” of his predecessor toward the wave of progressive governments coming to power in Latin America and, at some time during his administration, he signed a classified presidential Finding” to do whatever is necessary to oust left-leaning governments in the Western Hemisphere and replace them with docile, pro-American ones. Continue Reading…
Written on May 6th, 2014 in politics by heidi
Published on Pambazuka News, by Patrick Bond, May 1, 2014.
Nigeria’s ‘rebased’ GDP now beats South Africa’s in theory – but how does this measure up against the country’s actual wealth? Patrick Bond examines some of the biggest fallacies of the neoliberal investment prospects of the 2000s – BRICS, MINT (countries) and CIVETS, and why citizens are rising up in spite of the hype. Continue Reading…
Written on May 5th, 2014 in politics by heidi
Published on truthout.org, by Douglas Jamiel, May 4, 2014.
The historical cost of building our postal network, its unique characteristics and efficiency, the nefarious efforts to privatize and cripple it, and the economic and personal costs of losing it are considered … //
… Since the 1970s, the right has patiently tried to wrest control of the US Postal Service from the government using a three-step strategy characterized by: Continue Reading…
Written on May 4th, 2014 in have a look at by heidi
uploaded by Walk of the Earth:
- Royals, 4.42 min, August 11, 2013;
- HAPPY … Ft. Parachute, 3.55 min, March 11, 2014; (visit http://24hoursofhappiness.com/)
- Say Something – Gianni and Sarah, 3.43 min, Jan 26, 2014;
- Listen To The Music, 3.44 min, Oct 14, 2013; Continue Reading…
Written on May 3rd, 2014 in politics by heidi
Published on Global Research.ca, by Andrew J. Santos, May 3, 2014.
The revelation concerning a secretive airborne surveillance test in Compton, CA is disturbing. The Los Angeles County Sheriff Department via “Persistent Surveillance Systems”, spied on residents in Compton, CA for nine days in 2012.[1] Continue Reading…
Written on May 2nd, 2014 in politics by heidi
Published on Spiegel Online International, by SUSANNE AMANN, FRANK DOHMEN, JÖRG KRAMER, PAUL MIDDELHOFF AND BARBARA SCHMID, April 30. 2014.
As Moscow continues to escalate the situation in Ukraine, public and political pressure is turning against German companies who do business with Russia. The countries’ economic ties make disengagement next to impossible.
Clemens Tönnies usually says what he thinks. When, on a February morning, he climbed into a private jet with his wife Margit to fly to the Olympic Games in Sochi, he described his views on Russia to a reporter with Sport Bild magazine: It has “bothered him, how negatively this country has been portrayed … // Continue Reading…
Written on May 1st, 2014 in politics by heidi
Published on Axis of Logic, by Alex Park/Mother Jones, April 28, 2014.
(Editorial comment: The French title of Jean Ziegler’s latest book translates literally as ‘Mass Destruction – the Geopolitics of Hunger’. When I translated the article by Édouard MARET (Hunger can be overcome, according to Jean Ziegler), the title in English as it is now, was already posted. His last few books had not found a publisher or a translator into English, which I have guessed may be due to titles like ‘The Empire of Shame’ and ‘Hatred of the West’, concepts hard to face in the western world. Those two, and others, are magnificent books that give us the inside view of what is going on in the world with more or less planned and calculated starvation of the poor and the takeover of the entire world by the Corporate giants). Continue Reading…
Written on April 30th, 2014 in Index by heidi
Written on April 30th, 2014 in politics by heidi
Published on Russia Today RT, by Nadezhda Kevorkova, April 28, 2014:
The Americans never intended to help us build our country. Now Kabul is asking them not to leave Afghanistan so that the Taliban will not attack them,” a Pashtun from Kabul in his Moscow shop muses.
“Just imagine: we had 44 countries invading Afghanistan with modern weapons, satellite monitoring, tanks and missiles. The Taliban has an army of less than 20,000. We have 400,000 Afghan troops and 200,000 Americans with the most advanced weaponry. How is it possible that they can’t prevail over the Taliban?” he says. Continue Reading…
Written on April 29th, 2014 in politics by heidi
Published on Global Research.ca, by Prof. John McMurtry, April 26, 2014.
- Yet Russia gets all the blame for “brute force” in reclaiming Crimea – although 96% of a voluntary turnout of 82% voted to rejoin its traditional mother country. While denounced as “violation of international law”, the Crimea referendum choice expresses the “self-determination” of a society guaranteed under Article 2 of the United Nations Charter. Ukraine’s coup government, in contrast, has prohibited any referendum on its rule – especially the Eastern regions where popular uprisings with no mass deaths or beatings (as in the Kiev coup) call for self-determination against illegal rule from Kiev. Continue Reading…
Written on April 28th, 2014 in politics by heidi
Watch this video, 13.09 min, uploaded by The Real News, April 26, 2014 … and more videos in autoplay.
Links:
28.4.2014 Updated Link: Football ultras clash with anti-govt protesters in eastern Ukraine, at least 14 injured (PHOTOS, VIDEO), on Russia Today RT, April 27, 2014;
India losing water war, on dna India, by R.N. Bhaskar and S. Balakrishnan, April 27, 2014;
Hot statistics: Spanish exodus, Polish government finance ‘miracle’, more deflation in Ireland, Greek trade, on RWER, by merijnknibbe, April 26, 2014.
Written on April 27th, 2014 in politics by heidi
Published on transform, by Elisabeth Gauthier, April 23, 2014.
The abstention levels of 39% were a record high for municipal elections. They were particularly high in areas most affected by the crisis; in metropolitan communes; among the young; workers; and voters of the Front de Gauche (Left Front) and of the FN (National Front). In addition, almost 3 million potential voters were not registered to vote. Continue Reading…
Written on April 26th, 2014 in politics by heidi
Published on The Market Oracle.co.uk, by Raul I. Meijer, April@3, 2014.
A lot of words are being spent again these days on deflation and the QE measures that are supposed to “cure” it. Paul Krugman, who when it comes to stimulus is a hammer seeing nails only, now has it in for Sweden’s central bank, which he labels monetary sadists for not opening the spigots. But it’s all a hugely deceptive false flag; it’s not an issue of whether you launch QE or not. There’s a third, and much more valid, way of looking at this. Continue Reading…
Written on April 25th, 2014 in politics by heidi
- 2,700 more Muzaffarnagar riots victims apply for relief, on The Indian Express, April 23, 2014;
- India / Uttar Pradesh: KILLING FIELDS OF MUZAFFARNAGAR, 47.34 min, uploaded on YouTube by Gobal Menon, Feb 22, 2014 (in local language, subtitles in english): 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots is the worst communal violence in India in the last decade …;
- 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots on en.wikipedia, The clashes between the Hindu and Muslim communities in Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, India in August – September 2013, resulted in at least 49 deaths and injured 93 and left more than 50,000 displaced.[5][6][7][8] By 17 September, the curfew was lifted from all riot affected areas and the army was also withdrawn[9] …;
- Muzaffarnagar: Post Riot Assessment – Report, by Citizens’s Inquiry Team, not dated, 20 pdf-pages;
See also:
India / Gujarat: The Unholy War, uploaded on YouTube by Gopal Menon, April 19 + 22, 2014:
Narendra Modi has made tall claims about good governance in Gujarat. His vibrant Gujarat campaign claims that the state is the most developed state in the country. Is it true? All the social indicators prove otherwise. All the public services have been privatised …;
find this also on the Website of Countercurrents.org.
Written on April 24th, 2014 in politics by heidi
Published on Washington’s Blog, by Charles Hugh Smith, April 23, 2014.
Before an empire collapses, it first erodes from within. The collapse may appear sudden, but the processes of internal rot hollowed out the resilience, resolve, purpose and vitality of the empire long before its final implosion.
What are these processes of internal rot? Here are a few of the most pervasive and destructive forces of internal corrosion: Continue Reading…
Written on April 23rd, 2014 in politics by heidi
… the United States’ desperate solutions for not sinking alone – Published on GEAB N°84, April 17, 2014.
In the present confrontation between Russia and the West over the Ukrainian crisis, the image of the Cold War inevitably comes to mind and the media are obviously fond of it. However, contrary to what it gives us to understand, it’s not Russia that seeks the return of an iron curtain but really the US. An iron curtain separating the old powers and emerging nations; the world before and the world afterwards; debtors and creditors. And this in the crazy hope of preserving the American way of life and the US’ influence over “its” camp in the absence of being able to impose it on the whole world. In other words, go down with as many companions as possible to give the impression of not sinking. Continue Reading…