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Written on May 11th, 2016 in politics by heidi
… Interview with Lourdes Huanca – Published on Upside Down World.org, by Georges Ygarza, May 8, 2016.
… Lourdes Huanca Atencio is president of the National Federation of female peasants, Artisans, Indigenous, Natives and Salaried workers of Peru or FENMUCARINAP. The organization was founded in 2006 with the purpose of defending and fighting for the rights of women in Peru. These include struggles for the control and defense of the female body and political, economic and social empowerment. Rooted in an ancestral cosmovision of their indigenous communities, a central struggle has been the fight for their subsistence, in maintaining land, water and seed sovereignty. FENMUCARINAP currently finds itself in 19 regions throughout Peru and counts on over 126,000 members. Continue Reading…
Written on May 10th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on South China Morning Post, May 6, 2016.
Greece’s central bank says its website suffered a denial-of service attack as Anonymous announces the start of a 30-day campaign targeting major financial institutions. Continue Reading…
Written on May 9th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on Dissident Voice, by Binoy Kampmark, May 6, 2016.
The monstrous Siamese twin of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement TPP, known as (and also) the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership TTIP, has been in a growing puddle of dispute after 248 pages of its content were leaked. Continue Reading…
Written on May 8th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Written on May 7th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on NPR.org, by Steve Inskeep, May 5, 2016.
STEVE INSKEEP: How is West Virginia different, if at all, from anywhere else you campaigned?
- SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: Well, West Virginia has some pockets of the worst poverty in the United States of America. Continue Reading…
Written on May 6th, 2016 in politics by heidi
… (and) pressures Anastasiades to accept NATO plan for Turkish troops in Cyprus – Published on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, May 4, 2016.
Yves here. We were one of the few sites to follow the brutal handling of the Cyprus banking system when one of its major banks got wobbly in 2013. Cyprus was demonized as a money laundering center, when its main sin was that it served as a conduit for inbound investment into Russia, including investment by large, well-recognized companies. Continue Reading…
Written on May 5th, 2016 in politics by heidi
… the Calm before the Coming Global Storm – Published on ZNet (first on Sputnik News), by Pepe Escobar, May 4, 2016.
Major turbulence seems to be the name of the game in 2016. Yet the current turbulence may be interpreted as the calm before the next, devastating geopolitical/financial storm. Let’s review the current state of play via the dilemmas afflicting the House of Saud, the EU and BRICS members Russia, Brazil and China. Continue Reading…
Written on May 4th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Written on May 3rd, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on Intrepid Report, by Walter Brasch, May 2, 2016.
… The reason Joe Sestak is a slow learner is because he hasn’t learned to accept the floating rules of the political machine. He believes people in power should be able to justify their decisions, and he has a healthy attitude that dictates he should question authority when necessary. As a three-star flag officer, he listened to his staff and supported the thousands of enlisted personnel under his command, but he challenged those entombed within their own tunnel vision. Continue Reading…
Written on May 2nd, 2016 in politics by heidi
Written on May 1st, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on Yahoo/Finance, by Andy Serwer, April 29, 2016.
… “After the events of 2008, really since then, the central banks either collectively or individually have tried to implement policies which would, in effect, buy time for individual governments to take the actions they should take to put their houses in order,” Thornton says. Continue Reading…
Written on April 30th, 2016 in politics by heidi
related articles published during April 2016: (continuously updated … ) Continue Reading…
Written on April 30th, 2016 in politics by heidi
… new RT documentary exposes dirty oil secrets, ISIS’ cozy ties with Turkey – Published on RT, April 29, 2016.
Exclusive eye witness reports and documents, abandoned by retreating jihadists and found by RT Documentary crew members in a region liberated by Syrian Kurds, point to a commercial scale oil smuggling operations and the terror group’s cozy relations with Turkey … // Continue Reading…
Written on April 29th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on Dissident Voice, by William Hawes, April 25, 2016.
We have all been told a lie. The lie that says democracy can be maintained only through voting, through purely representative, parliamentarian means. When the founding fathers set up the Constitution and Bill of Rights, they were wary of any truly popular, working and middle class control of the United States. Our government was to be run as a republic, designed by elites, for the elites. Continue Reading…
Written on April 28th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on Five Thirty Eight, by Andrew Flowers, April 25, 2016.
Daniel Straub remembers the night he got hooked on basic income. He had invited Götz Werner, a billionaire owner of a German drugstore chain, to give an independent talk in Zurich, where Straub was working as a project manager for a think tank. He had read an article about the radical proposal to unconditionally guarantee citizens an income and spent a few years casually researching the idea. Continue Reading…
Written on April 27th, 2016 in politics by heidi
update April 27, 2016/09.25 MEZ: LIVE – MCIS Moscow Conference on international security forum discusses fight against terrorism, global defense issues, on RT, April 27, 2016.
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Written on April 26th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on Spiegel Online International, by Peter Müller in Brussels, April 25, 2016.
The European Commission (its President Jean-Claude Juncker) had hoped not to provide fresh anti-EU ammunition to pro-Brexit voters ahead of Britain’s upcoming referendum. But SPIEGEL has learned that Brussels is planning to launch legal proceedings against the UK over its truck toll. Continue Reading…
Written on April 25th, 2016 in politics by heidi
… how much of the electoral process is illusory? – Published on truthout, by Candice Bernd, April 24, 2016.
The parallel Democracy Spring and Democracy Awakening mobilizations wrapped their week of sit-ins protesting the corrosive influence of money in politics and voter suppression at the US Capitol on Monday, tallying more than 1,400 arrests. Continue Reading…
Written on April 24th, 2016 in politics by heidi
… even if 90% of people smoked weed instead of working – Published on Tech Insider, by Chris Weller, April 19, 2016.
The chief complaint people lodge at universal basic income — a form of income distribution that gives people money to cover basic needs regardless of whether they work or not — is that it’ll make them lazy.
Sam Altman doesn’t buy it. Continue Reading…
Written on April 23rd, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on Counterpunch, by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, April 22, 2016.
Have you noticed that it is not only the presstitute media and the two establishment political parties that are beating up on Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump but also the progressive left. Continue Reading…
Written on April 22nd, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on Political Violence @ a Glance, by Tijen Demirel-Pegg, April 20, 2016.
The killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York – and the subsequent failure to indict the police officers that killed them in 2014 – generated massive outrage across the United States. While large-scale protests were held in a number of cities, leaving pundits to wonder if Black Lives Matter was turning into a new civil rights movement, an unexpected event happened: two police officers were shot to death in New York on December 20, 2014, by a man who was allegedly outraged by the Brown and Garner cases. Continue Reading…
Written on April 21st, 2016 in politics by heidi
After Vote to Remove Brazil’s President, Key Opposition Figure Holds Meetings in Washington – Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1249, by Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman, David Miranda, April 20, 2016.
Brazil’s lower House of Congress on Sunday voted to impeach the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff, sending the removal process to the Senate. In an act of unintended though rich symbolism, the House member who pushed impeachment over the 342-vote threshold was Dep. Bruno Araújo, himself implicated by a document indicating he may have received illegal funds from the construction giant at the heart of the nation’s corruption scandal. Continue Reading…
Written on April 20th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Panama Papers show world’s tax progress, We ultimately want transparency – OECD’s Gurria, 5.51 min, uploaded by slithereen guard, Apr 16, 2016;
AUDIOS: Weekly Economic Update with Richard Wolff – the latest 5 issues:
- uploaded by slithreen guard: April 15, 2016, 46.44 min; April 8, 2016, 55.18 min; April 1, 2016, 55.54 min;
- uploaded by MNN NYC: March 23, 2016, 58.02 min; March 17, 2016, 58.03 min; Continue Reading…
Written on April 19th, 2016 in politics by heidi
some random contributions uploaded by WES:
Warwick Economics Summit February 2016:
Written on April 18th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Publishde on Dissident Voice, by Paul Craig Roberts, April 16, 2016.
On April 14 Syria held parliamentary elections at 7,000 polling stations, keeping the voting open an extra five hours to accommodate the massive turnout. All were allowed to vote, even displaced Syrians from the two provinces still terrorized by Washington and Israeli backed ISIS. Continue Reading…