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Moving beyond the corporate vision of sustainability

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Published on Intrepid Report, by Rajesh Makwana, February 12, 2014.

… The green economy vs. the greed economy:

Invariably, the big business lobby advocates for market-based solutions to environmental problems and the ‘greening’ of economic growth, and essentially works to safeguard opportunities for private sector investment and shareholder profit. But environmentalists and civil society organisations have long argued that there is something deeply misguided about putting corporate profits and market-based solutions at the forefront of our response to climate change and the wider environmental crisis. Continue Reading…

Do over?

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Published on Real-World Economics Review Blog, by Peter Radford, Feb 11, 2014.

You would have thought that, after all this time, economics would change. Or be changing. Or even be hinting at the possibility of changing. However, while there are a few encouraging signs, there is precious little sign of said motion inside the citadels that dominate the discipline. We still have a profession stuck in a most unprofessional rut, pursuing thinking that reflects not the world around it, but itself.   Continue Reading…

Tony Gosling

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Ed Miliband: Labour will give parents power to oust headteachers

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Proposed public service overhaul includes education hit squads to boost performance of failing schools or teachers – Published on The Guardian, by Patrick Wintour, Feb 9, 2014.

Parents are to be given a new power to call in a specialist team to boost the performance of failing schools or teachers, under a set of wide-ranging public service reform plans to be laid out on Monday by the Labour leader, Ed Miliband.

The improvement team, working separately from Ofsted, will have powers to set out school improvement plans, order greater collaboration between schools or even remove failing headteachers. The body would have powers to intervene with academies, free schools and community schools.  Continue Reading…

To challenge global capitalism we must first understand it

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… an interview with Leo Panitch – Published on red pepper, January 2014.

Globalisation and Imperialism: … //

  • … Is it really the case that other states have not also assumed the responsibility for promoting and protecting global capitalism?
  • That’s a good question, one that’s not fully resolved. The US is a new type of empire that only rules in conjunction with other states, especially G7 states. It’s not merely an imposition. It requires a lot of institutional coordination and interpenetration. That said, the Germans in particular have been recalcitrant in taking responsibility for ‘failure containment’ in light of financial volatility. Neither has Japan been very forthcoming. By contrast, the relationship between UK and US Treasury is particularly close in playing this failure containment role, although the UK accepts that the US is the senior partner, if for no other reason than it has greater capacity. Continue Reading…

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Spain: Popular Resistance Delivers Results

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Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 934, by Esther Vivas, February 7, 2014. http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/934.php

Resisting is pointless,” we hear endlessly repeated. “So many years of protest but the crisis continues, why bother?” insist others, inoculating us with apathy and resignation. “Protests could lead to something that’s even worse,” whispers the machinery of fear. They want us submissive, heads bowed. Dreams of change are forbidden. However, history rebels, indomitable. And it shows us, despite the naysayers, that struggle is worth it. The victories against the privatization of Madrid’s public health system, of the Gamonal neighbourhood standing up to speculators and the corrupt, of the cleaners in their battle for jobs in the capital and the struggle against evictions and the banks, are good examples … // Continue Reading…

Speaking Truth to Power: ‘Boat’ reinvents notion of human possibility

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Published on Journal News.net, by Sonja James, Feb 6, 2014.

Christopher Merrill’s “Boat” is an extraordinary and complex collection of dissident poetry.

Merrill’s gift lies in the laser-like precision with which he dissects memory, love, politics and faith. The poems assume forms as diverse as traditional narrative and prose poems as well as translations. His human rights message is simple and direct. Our highest ethical imperative as human beings is to question injustice and the abuse of power no matter where it occurs … //

poem-reviews …  Continue Reading…

G. Edward Griffin about the FED

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If America Doesn’t ABOLISH The FED, The FED Will ABOLISH AMERICA, 24.06 min, uploaded by uploaded by FinanceAndLiberty.com, Dec 23, 2013.

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Why is the Fed tapering?

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Published on Intrepid Report, by Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler, February 4, 2014.

On January 17, 2014, we explained The Hows and Whys of Gold Price Manipulation. In former times, the rise in the gold price was held down by central banks selling gold or leasing gold to bullion dealers who sold the gold. The supply added in this way to the market absorbed some of the demand, thus holding down the rise in the gold price.  Continue Reading…

Greece 3rd bailout

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Leaked: Germany says 3rd Greek bailout worth €10bn-€20bn, on Russia Today RT, Feb 3, 2014.

The next financial lifeline Greece will receive from Germany and its European lenders will be worth €10 billion to €20 billion, the German magazine Der Spiegel reports, citing a document leaked from Berlin’s finance ministry.

The rescue package, which will be the third for Europe’s most troubled economy, is considered “extra aid” by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble, who said the sum would be “far smaller” than the €240 billion is has already received from international lenders.   Continue Reading…

Zur mehr gerechten Welt

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mit nur echtem Geld, 125.09 min, von GoldenAUroraniS am 3. Februar 2013 hochgeladen.

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Apostasy ban overshadows political debate in Tunisia

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Published on The Tunis Times, by Staff, Jan 23, 2014.

The debate over the role of religion in the constitution has ignited an ideologically-heated dispute between the secularists and the Islamists. Ultimately, the two sides of the conflict, whether public or parliamentary, argued that Article 6 – the heart of this debate- should be worded otherwise to maintain balance. The article guarantees freedom of belief and conscience and the free exercise of religion and bans apostasy and incitement on violence.   Continue Reading…

Eric Hobsbawm

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How junk economists help the rich impoverish the working class

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Published on Intrepid Report, by Paul Craig Roberts, Jan 31, 2014.

A few days ago, I explained how economists and policymakers destroyed our economy for the sake of short-term corporate profits from jobs offshoring and financial deregulation.  Continue Reading…

Index January 2014

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2014-01-01: NSA’s Secret Toolbox: Unit Offers Spy Gadgets for Every Need;
2014-01-02: The NSA Can Literally Watch Every Keystroke You Make;
2014-01-03: The pseudo-legal arguments for a police state;
2014-01-04: Chance of a Century: International Investors Flock to Tehran, Part 1;
2014-01-05: The Geopolitical Ecology of Empire’s Ally;
2014-01-06: Western economies: A tale of thieves and tapers;
2014-01-07: Currencies, geopolitics, real estate, finance;
2014-01-08: Has the House of Saud seen its Stalingrad?
2014-01-09: Labor Market: Does Germany Benefit from Balkan Immigrants?
2014-01-10: NSA Insiders Reveal What Went Wrong;
2014-01-11: HOME;
2014-01-11: Les Origines du Sida (about AIDS);
2014-01-12: America’s Black-Ops Blackout;
2014-01-13: South Africa will return land to dispossessed – Zuma;
2014-01-14: Two Transitions in Brazil: Dilemmas of a Neoliberal Democracy;
2014-01-15: Why the Washington Post’s New Ties to the CIA Are So Ominous;
2014-01-15: Freiheit & Überwachung;
2014-01-16: About the pyramids’ construction;
2014-01-17: U.S. Court of Appeals Allows ISP’s to Selectively Block Web Traffic;
2014-01-18: Offshore Banking, Fraud, and the Crisis;
2014-01-18: Neoliberalität: vom Landgrabbing zur Geldschöpfung;
2014-01-18: Russian Officials visit Gitmo;
2014-01-19: Obama’s Executive Order problem;
2014-01-20: Labour’s reforms will ensure new banks flourish;
2014-01-21: Aaron Russo’s Documentary;
2014-01-22: Carl Hart on drugs;
2014-01-23: BBC on WikiLeaks;
2014-01-24: Overheated Financial Planet, World Political Chaos and Shadow Banking;
2014-01-25: Jacque Fresco;
2014-01-26: Links on my Dashboard;
2014-01-27: The Real Causes of the Catastrophic Crisis in Greece and the “Left”;
2014-01-28: Indians Anthology;
2014-01-28: Gregor Gysi;
2014-01-29: The One Percent;
2014-01-30: calme music;
2014-01-30: Tanz auf dem Vulkan;
2014-01-31: Prepared to Die: The Right Wing’s Role in Ukrainian Protests.
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Prepared to Die: The Right Wing’s Role in Ukrainian Protests

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Published on Spiegel Online International, by Spiegel Staff: BENJAMIN BIDDER, CHRISTIAN NEEF, VLADIMIR PYLYOV and MATTHIAS SCHEPP, January 27, 2014 (Photo Gallery).

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich appears bent on crushing the protest movement but the opposition won’t go quietly. A right-wing nationalist party is seeking to benefit from the growing violence and has begun warning of a civil war. Continue Reading…

Tanz auf dem Vulkan

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calme music

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The One Percent

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The One Percent, 76.29 min, uploaded by WarZalez, Nov 1, 2011: This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing “wealth gap” in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. Johnson, who cut his film teeth at NYU and made the Emmy®-nominated 2003 HBO documentary Born Rich, here sets his sights on exploring the political, moral and emotional rationale that enables a tiny percentage of Americans – the one percent – to control nearly half the wealth of the entire United States. The film Includes interviews with Nicole Buffett, Bill Gates Sr., Adnan Khashoggi, Milton Friedman, Robert Reich, Ralph Nader and other luminaries. Website: The One Percent.

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Gregor Gysi

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Indians Anthology

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The Real Causes of the Catastrophic Crisis in Greece and the “Left”

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Published on Global Research.ca, by Takis Fotopoulos, January 16, 2014.

… 2. Capitalist globalization can only be neoliberal:

The Euro-elites simply cannot afford to lose more of their competitiveness. In fact, the real reason for the creation of EU and later of the Eurozone had nothing to do with the ideals of freedom, democracy, human values and the rest of its ideology, as EU’s history has clearly shown. It was the growing gap in competitiveness (in terms of EU’s share of world exports) during the 1980s, which led the Euro-elites to speed up the integration procedures, which were mostly dormant up to then.  Continue Reading…

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Jacque Fresco

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