politics for the 99%

Interview with Alexander Marin, published on Socialist Worker.org, by Eva Maria, March 4, 2014.

… Alexander Marín is a student organizer and member of Marea Socialista (Socialist Tide), a group working within the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), founded in 2007 by supporters of the late Hugo Chávez. Marín talked to Eva María about the nature of the protests rocking Venezuela, where they are headed and the state of the revolution today … //

… WHAT WOULD you say is the social character of the protests since mid-February? What motive or motives have pushed the people to go out to the streets?   Continue Reading…

Live Updates:

• on Mirror: Live updates after Russian soldier fires first shots in Crimea as surrender deadline passes, March 5, 2014;
• on Russia Today RT: Ukraine turmoil, March 4-5, 2014;    Continue Reading…

How international financial elites change governments to implement austerity – Published on Intrepid Report, by Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, March 4, 2014.

… Despite their many differences, these social turbulences share two common features. The first is that they are largely induced, nurtured and orchestrated from outside, that is, by the United States and its allies—of course, in collaboration with their class allies from inside. And the second is that, contrary to the long-established historical pattern of social revolutions, where the desperate and disenfranchised masses rebelled against the ruling elites, in most of the recent struggles it is the elites that have instigated insurgencies and civil wars against the masses. The two features are, of course, integrally intertwined: essentially reflecting the shared interests and collaborative schemes of the international plutocracies against the global 99%.  Continue Reading…

Published on TomDispatch, by Tom Engelhardt, March 2, 2014.

There is, it seems, something new under the sun.

Geopolitically speaking, when it comes to war and the imperial principle, we may be in uncharted territory.  Take a look around and you’ll see a world at the boiling point.  From Ukraine to Syria, South Sudan to Thailand, Libya to Bosnia, Turkey to Venezuela, citizen protest (left and right) is sparking not just disorganization, but what looks like, to coin a word, de-organization at a global level.  Increasingly, the unitary status of states, large and small, old and new, is being called into question.  Civil war, violence, and internecine struggles of various sorts are visibly on the rise. In many cases, outside countries are involved and yet in each instance state power seems to be draining away to no other state’s gain.  So here’s one question: Where exactly is power located on this planet of ours right now?   Continue Reading…

Published on Real-World Economics Review Blog, by Peter Radford, March 1, 2014.

I am preparing a talk on inequality here in America, and so have been re-reading the Piketty and Saez work. Amongst the more eye-opening facts I have come across is the assertion, by Saez, that the surge in the top 1% incomes is so large that the growth of the bottom 99% amounts to only half the average [mean].

Think about that for a moment. Continue Reading…

von MacroAnalyst auf YouTube hochgeladen:

• 1.3 Modul-1 Europäische Währungsunion, 14.18 min,
• 1.4 Modul-2: Europäische Fiskalunion, 15.41 min,
• 1.5 Modul-3: Bankenunion, 13.49 min;

von Jens B auf YouTube hochgeladen: Continue Reading…

watch this video with former NASA Scientist Richard Hoover, 23.31 min, uploaded by Open Minds Production, Feb 19, 2014: former NASA Scientist Richard Hoover shares revelations with journalist Lee Speigel from the Huffington Post. Hoover talks about the fact that someone may have destroyed evidence of life on Mars. This took place at the Open Minds 2014 International UFO Congress and Film Festival in Fountain Hills Arizona.

Published on Necessary and Proportionate.org, Info and Link received by Newsletter-Email, From: HURIDOCS, Date: Feb 11, 2014:

Dear reader, Privacy is a human right: People need it, governments have to protect it and business has to respect it. Too often, this is not the case.

Today is the day we fight back: Thousands of individuals, international experts and a coalition of NGOs from all around the globe demand an end to unchecked mass surveillance. Privacy is dear to everyone of them: It enables them to speak freely. To meet others without being watched. To know that it is their decision to share information about themselves.   Continue Reading…

Published on Global Research.ca (first on World Socialist Web Site WSWS), by Peter Schwarz, Feb 27, 2014.

“When the Soviet Union was collapsing in late 1991, Dick wanted to see the dismantlement not only of the Soviet Union and the Russian empire but of Russia itself, so it could never again be a threat to the rest of the world,” wrote former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in his recently published memoirs. Gates was referring to the then-Secretary of Defense, and later US Vice President, Dick Cheney.

The statement sheds light on the geopolitical dimensions of the recent putsch in Ukraine. What is at stake is not so much domestic issues—and not at all the fight against corruption and democracy—but rather an international struggle for power and influence that stretches back a quarter of a century … // Continue Reading…

2014-02-01: How junk economists help the rich impoverish the working class;
2014-02-02: Eric Hobsbawm;
2014-02-03: Apostasy ban overshadows political debate in Tunisia;
2014-02-03: Zur mehr gerechten Welt;
2014-02-04: greece 3rd bailout;
2014-02-05: Popular Paul Craig Roberts Videos;
2014-02-06: G. Edward Griffin about the FED;
2014-02-07: Speaking Truth to Power: ‘Boat’ reinvents notion of human possibility;
2014-02-08: Spain: Popular Resistance Delivers Results;
2014-02-09: all these links remaning on my Dashbard;
2014-02-10: To challenge global capitalism we must first understand it;
2014-02-11: Ed Miliband: Labour will give parents power to oust headteachers;
2014-02-12: Tony Gosling;
2014-02-13: Do over?
2014-02-14: Moving beyond the corporate vision of sustainability;
2014-02-15: Ursachen der Finanzkrise;
2014-02-15: The side effects of the monetary paradigm;
2014-02-16: Online revolts can stop govt;
2014-02-17: Venezuela: A Complex Psychological War;
2014-02-18: Intercept: An Essential New Site by Greenwald, Scahill, and Company;
2014-02-19: when Old is leaving, the New is coming;
2014-02-20: Alexej von Jawlensky, Gabriele Münter, Wassily Kandinsky;
2014-02-21: The Secret History of Western Education;
2014-02-22: we in our world;
2014-02-23: more medieval music;
2014-02-24: Banks Are Obsolete: The Entire Parasitic Sector Can Be Eliminated;
2014-02-25: CELAC States: a shining example for the whole world;
2014-02-26: The Murky Politics of the $15 Minimum Wage;
2014-02-27: Playing Real-Life Monopoly;
2014-02-28: US Culture of Secrecy & Security Overreach.

All articles sorted chronologically.

Interview with Daniel Ellsberg, re-published on ZNet, by AlJazeera, February 26, 2014.

In 1971, US military analyst Daniel Ellsberg leaked thousands of pages of a top-secret study on the Vietnam War to the American press. The Pentagon Papers, as the leak would come to be called, revealed previously shrouded layers of deception on the part of the US executive branch regarding decades of military involvement in Indochina … // Continue Reading…

Published on Counterpunch, by Alfredo Lopez, Feb 25, 2014.

It might seem like a game of Monopoly played by real monopolies and, with a tired groan, one might be tempted to dismiss it as part of an ugly but irreversible trend. But the merger of cable-television mammoth Comcast with its runner-up competitor Time-Warner Cable is a huge piece of news whose outcome, if it goes forward, will be crippling to communications in this country … //

… The courts can stop this merger. Most analysts doubt they will.   Continue Reading…

Published on Worker’s Action, by Shamus Coke, Feb 24, 2014.

… And although Sawant has been assured by the Seattle mayor that $15 is a done deal, she’s warning the Seattle public otherwise. Sawant recently spoke at a conference organized by the coalition “$15 Now,” and blasted the intrigue of the mayor’s committee set up to implement the new wage. Sawant knows the inner workings of the committee because she’s on it.

Sawant’s speech warned Seattle that the Seattle 1% are plotting a counter-offensive, aimed at undermining $15 by adding a variety of exceptions, loopholes, and extending the implementation time. In response Sawant demanded “$15 now, no exceptions.” The “$15 Now” coalition is staying on the offensive, going into the neighborhoods to ensure that $15 is implemented — they’ve given the Mayor’s committee a deadline and are preparing to organize a ballot initiative if necessary.  Continue Reading…

33 Latin America and Caribbean States  proclaim their region a Zone of Peace – Interview with Prof Dr iur et phil Alfred M. de Zayas, Geneva School of Diplomacy, published on Current Concerns, Feb 20, 2014.

In December 2011, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States / CELAC Communidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños was established. This community comprises 33 American states with the exception of the USA and Canada … //

… excerpt: …  Current Concerns: Professor de Zayas, how do you assess the Conference of Celac States 14 days ago in Havana? What results have been worked out by the countries of the Community of Latin America and the Caribbean States?   Continue Reading…

What else can we do with the $1.25 trillion we’ll save by eliminating these obsolete financial middleman parasites? A lot – Published on Washington’s Blog, by Charles Hush Smith, Feb 21, 2014.

… This entire parasitic middleman sector could be replaced with automated digital clearing houses and crowdfunded or non-bank loans. Why do we need banks to pay bills online? We don’t; any clearing house could charge a small fee for the transaction.

Why do we need banks when loans can be crowdfunded? If we can invest money in start-ups via Kickstarter, Indiegogo, RocketHub, AngelList, etc., why can’t we own a piece of someone’s auto loan or home mortgage?   Continue Reading…

uploaded by Unai Urigoiti-Irizabalbarrena:

• A Medieval Mystery – Il Laudario di Cortona.wmv, 79.42 min, on YouTube May 2, 2012;
• ANDALUSIAN LUTH.avi, 67.11 min, on YouTube June 7, 2012;
• Les Boréades et Dardanus Ouvertures, 10.09 min, on YouTube Jan 17, 2013;
• Find Unai Urigoiti-Irizabalbarrena: on YouTube-search; on Google Web-search;

uploaded by Caballerito de Arratia:

• LACHRIMAE – HESPÈRION XX.avi, 34.49 min, on YouTube March 26, 2011;
• Galliards – Paul O’DETTE.avi, 76.15 min, on YouTube Feb 13, 2011;
• HUME – MUSICALL HUMORS – SAVALL.avi, 69.44 min, on YouTube May 4, 2011.

• Ukraine Unrest – DIRECT: Rioters renew offensive in Kiev, truce broken, 7.30.51 h, uploaded by RT, Feb 20, 2014;
  (see again: Why You Should Care, Ukrainian Protests (E41), 3.12 min,  uploaded by RT, Dec 21, 2013);
• 2-minute video: How To Survive The Coming COLLAPSE Of The U.S. Dollar In 2014, on AngelPub.com, by Outsider Club, Feb 19, 2014;
• Noam Chomsky: How to Ruin an Economy, Some Simple Ways (2014), 34.59 min, uploaded by LeighaCohen, Feb 12, 2014 … and – uploaded by LeighaCohen – 43 other videos in autoplay;
  website: Leigha Cohen, Photography;
  website: Coalition for Peace Action;
• (Gas-) Fracking: cowboy industry driven by greed with ‘profit above all’ mantra, 4.54 min, uploaded by RT, Nov 26, 2013;
• Audio with Noam Chomsky: Asking the right questions, 118.18 min, uploaded by infiniteinfiniteinfi, August 9, 2012.
• Noam Chomsky (1990) in London: Year 501, 117.43 min, uploaded by argusfest, July 2, 2012: … he spoke on the 500 years of western imperialism since Christopher Columbus;
• Matt Stoller: “Free Trade” Pacts Were Always About Weakening Nation-States to Promote Rule by Multinationals, on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, February 21, 2014;
• Multi-Factor productivity in the UK, A stunning decrease, on Real-World Economics Review Blog, by merijnknibbe, Geb 20, 2014;
• Adam Smith – Socialist? on Real-World Economics Review Blog, by Peter Radford, Feb 19, 2014;
• in german: Galileo Galilei, auf Neues Geld.net, Feb 15, 2014;
• Weitzenegger.de’s Newsletter on International Cooperation for Sustainable Development coop4dev.eu, February 2014;
• Interview by Lars Schall: The side effects of the monetary paradigm, on Neues Geld.net, Oct 13, 2012;
• A “Flowing Money” System, on Neues Geld.net, Oct 13, 2011.

Videos with Charlotte T. Iserbyt – The Scientific Destruction of Minds:

• uploaded by TheAlexJonesChannel, June 16, 2011: 1/5, 15.19 min; 2/5, 15.08 min; 3/5, 15.06 min; 4/5, 15.00 min; 5/5, 14.27 min;
• or uploaded by PreserveOurFreedoms, June 17, 2011: as One Full Time Video, 75.00 min, ;

Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt served as the head of policy at the Department of Education during the first administration of Ronald Reagan. While working there she discovered a long term strategic plan by the tax exempt foundations to transform America from a nation of rugged individualists and problem solvers to a country of servile, brainwashed minions who simply regurgitate whatever they’re told.  Continue Reading…

Find Alexej von Jawlensky:

• in Artikeln: Das Leuchten in der Welt: Freie Presse, 19. Februar 2014: Wer Farben liebt, der muss auch diesen Jawlensky lieben. Dem Russen, der vor vermutlich 150 Jahren zur Welt kam und in Bayern zum Weggefährten von Wassily Kandinsky und Gabriele Münter wurde, widmet das Museum Gunzenhauser derzeit eine Ausstellung. Sie ist Genuss und Lehrstück gleichermaßen (die Ausstellung “Jawlensky. Neu gesehen” im Museum Gunzenhauser in Chemnitz /Germany, Falkeplatz, ist bis 27. April, dienstags bis sonntags und feiertags 11 bis 18 Uhr zu sehen);
• on Google Images-search;    Continue Reading…

• The Next America: The Emerging New Direction as the Old Order Decays, 80.32 min, uploaded by Schumacher Center for New Economics, Oct 24, 2013;
• Interview with Alice Maggio, Local Currency Program Director, 6.57 min, uploaded by Schumacher Center for New Economics,  July 24, 2013;
• Avoiding Economic Collapse: A Guide to Complementary Currencies, 16.57 min, uploaded by Global Research TV, April 3, 2013;
• Open World: The Open Sourcing of Everything, 11.09 min, uploaded by Global Research TV, December 9, 2013;

Links:

Sealed files reveal US hunt for WikiLeaks associates, on Russia Today RT, Feb 17, 2014;   Continue Reading…

Published on The Contrary Perspective, by blog owner, Feb 15, 2014.

In an age when many journalists are corporate-owned or are reduced by various pressures into stenographers for the powerful, it’s encouraging to hear of new journalistic ventures that promise to be critical of those in power. Glenn Greenwald, who’s established a reputation for outspoken journalism at Salon.com and The Guardian, and Jeremy Scahill, an investigative reporter and bestselling author of Blackwater as well as Dirty Wars, have established a new online magazine known as The Intercept (it’s available here: The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program).   Continue Reading…

Published on ZNet, by Tamara Pearson, February 15, 2014.

… On top of this, we have the media constantly lying about what is going on here (in Venezuela) and about what the government does, as well as the verbal abuse towards Chavistas on social networks. Then, over the last few weeks, in some parts of Venezuela, the most violent sectors of the opposition have been active. Here in Merida it started off with a few “students” blocking the main road; burning tires and garbage on it, and throwing rocks at anyone who tried to get close. They had no placards. From last Friday those protests escalated, both in terms of violence, people involved, and roads closed. It has been hard to get to school, work, and the hospital, and the frustration, inconvenience, and fear that comes with these sorts of actions combines with the aforementioned economic insecurity. The cacerolas (pot banging protests) that started last night in my barrio and in a few others here and in other cities also cause anxiety.   Continue Reading…

Yesterday we defeated SOPA, today we battle NSA – Interview with Josh Levy, published on Russia Today RT, Feb 12, 2014.

Properly mobilized people can become a massive online force capable of blocking ‘dangerous bills’ and changing government policies, Josh Levy of the Free Press told RT. The participants of The Day We Fight Back campaign say their call to action is simple.

RT: What are the protesters trying to achieve? How exactly are they supposed to ‘fight back’?

• Josh Levy: This day of action [Wednesday, February 11] is the next stop on the continuum of action that has taken place since Edward Snowden first revealed the extent of the NSA surveillance program back in June. It follows mass protests that took place in Washington DC in October, the huge online protest that took place in June after we’ve found out about all of these things. And what we have seen is that it has really changed the debate not only here in the US but around the world. And more and more people every day have turned away these programs and have tried to find the ways to stop them.   Continue Reading…

Published on Neues Geld.net, Interview Professor Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Berger, economist and philosopher, by Lars Schall, Translation into English by Lucy Streng, Feb 14, 2014 (Verbunden mit Ursachen der Finanzkrise).

Professor Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Berger is among the critics of an absolute basic prerequisite of today’s financial system: interest. In the following interview he reveals present conditions, risks and alternatives. “Interest is part of the system and it has side effects which therefore also belong to the system – terrible side effects.”  Continue Reading…

• Prof. Wolfgang Berger: Ursachen der Finanzkrise, 68.20 min, von RathausCafe am 2. Februar 2012 hochgeladen: … and see on YouTube a huge list of interesting URLs;
• Prof. Berger: Finanzkrise, Eurokrise und Auswege, 56.02 min, von herbert galehr am 2. Juni 2012 hochgeladen;
• … (verbunden mit The side effects of the monetary paradigm);
• Prof. Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Berger ist auch zu finden: auf Wissensmanufaktur.de/WolfgangBerger; auf de.wikipedia; auf YouTube.

Link: Die Schweiz sagt Fuck the EU.