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Published on The Guardian, by Faiza Shaheen, Nov 16, 2016.
These seemingly bland organisations are actively undermining employment rights, driving precarious workers into the arms of exploitative companies … // Continue Reading…
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… bevor wir wieder zur Tagesordnung übergehen:
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Published on truthout, by Skanda Kadirgamar, Nov 16, 2016.
… Aggressive Trainings:
The ITOA conference is one of many tactical trainings and weapons fairs that occur across the United States. These trainings offer participating police departments a variety of training opportunities such as licensing officers to use “less than lethal” weapons like tear gas and tasers. Continue Reading…
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Published on Dissident Voice, by Mohammed Mesbahi, Nov 15, 2016: a spiritual education for the Art of Being (Part One; Part Two).
… The lack of right education in our societies therefore highlights our underlying dilemma, in that the sharing economy is a viable idea, a potentially colossal and planetary idea, if it is accomplished in a wholly inclusive and moral way by firstly concentrating all our attention on the needs of the world’s struggling poor majority. Continue Reading…
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Published on Countercurrents.org, by Mirza Yawar Baig, Nov 15, 2016.
Dire Straits’ famous song has some very politically incorrect lyrics but the refrain, ‘Money for nothing and the chicks for free’ sums up the situation of black marketeers and owners before the demonetization and the name of the songsters – Dire Straits – sums up their situation in India today. But what are the implications of demonetization? We have seen many theories; conspiracy and otherwise. One of the best articles that I have read is by former Finance and Economic Affairs Secretary, Arvind Mayaram, which is here: Continue Reading…
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… including most kids in Afghanistan – Published on RT, Nov 15, 2016.
.. Thirty-two percent also said their schools were not always safe. The ‘Small Voices, Big Dreams’ survey, conducted by the ChildFund Alliance, interviewed 6,226 children between the ages of 10 and 12 who live in 41 countries – 31 of which are developing nations across Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Of the students surveyed, 3,658 were from developing nations. Continue Reading…
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Published on The Spectator, Brendan O’Neill, Nov 9, 2016.
If you want to know why Trump won, just look at the response to his winning. The lofty contempt for ‘low information’ Americans. The barely concealed disgust for the rednecks and cretins of ‘flyover’ America who are apparently racist and misogynistic and homophobic. The haughty sneering at the vulgar, moneyed American political system and how it has allowed a wealthy candidate to poison the little people’s mushy, malleable minds. Continue Reading…
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Published on In The Half Light, by PaulOC, Nov 9, 2016.
The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, much like the Brexit vote in the UK earlier this year, has been greeted by mainstream commentators with a mixture of vapid incomprehension and shrill, moralistic denouncement. The emptiness of these responses reflect a central problem for liberals, centrists, so-called ‘leftists’ and others in advanced capitalist countries, namely that their gods have failed them. Capitalist development and competition, wedded to (and notionally tempered by) limited, representative democracy and consensus politics have all proven inadequate to the historical tasks before them. Continue Reading…
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Published on Global Research.ca, by RT News, Nov 10, 2016.
At least five Russian major banks came under a continuous hacker attack, although online client services were not disrupted. The attack came from a wide-scale botnet involving at least 24,000 computers, located in 30 countries. Continue Reading…
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Published on The Independent.co.uk, by Kim Sengupta, Nov 9, 2016.
On some areas of geopolitics the UK is now out of step with the new White House, particularly when it comes to Russia’s role in Syria.
It has been a paradox of the US election that Donald Trump, the right-wing populist, was seen as a dove on foreign and defence policy while Hillary Clinton, the liberal sophisticate, was regarded as a hawk … (no, it’s not a paradox, this chaos is wanted, so people may be better misleaded … and the UK goes it’s own way with Brexit, but mainstream media and the establishment are unable to recognize it … because it’s the people who decide (called populism) and not the elites – Heidi). Continue Reading…
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Published on Let’s Try Democracy, by David Swanson, Nov 9, 2016.
Dear Democrats, are you finding yourselves suddenly a bit doubtful of the wisdom of drone wars? Presidential wars without Congress? Massive investment in new, smaller, “more usable” nuclear weapons? The expansion of bases across Africa and Asia? Are you disturbed by the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen? Can total surveillance and the persecution of whistleblowers hit a point where they’ve gone too far? Is the new Cold War with Russia looking less than ideal now? How about the militarization of U.S. police: is it time to consider alternatives to that? Continue Reading…
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Published on Dissident Voice (first on New Eastern Outlook) NEO, by Andre Vltchek, Nov 7, 2016.
People all over the world are fed up with capitalism … // Continue Reading…
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Published on RT, Nov 6, 2016.
Among the many ways in which the 2016 US presidential election has been out of the ordinary is the invocation of Russia as a looming threat to American democracy, basically putting “Putin on the ballot” in the words of the Washington Post. Continue Reading…
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Published on Informed Comment, by Juan Cole, Nov 4, 2016.
The Turkish government has detained 11 members of parliament from the leftist, feminist and pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP),including the party’s co-chairs. This step is intended to give Erdogan the majority in parliament he needs to make himself president for life, and to give Turkey (currently a parliamentary government) an imperial presidency on the Egyptian model. The pretext was that these MPs declined to testify in a witch-hunt inquiry. I.e., this is precisely McCarthyism. Continue Reading…
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Published on New Statesman, by John McDonnell, Nov 2, 2016.
After four decades, the economic consensus is crumbling, what can politicians do next? Continue Reading…
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Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E- Bulletin No 1324, by David Bush, editor at RankandFile.ca., Nov 3, 2016.
There is major disorientation on the left in many Western countries when it comes to Syria and about how antiwar activists should respond to events on the ground in Syria and Iraq. The highly complex nature of the Syrian war involving a multitude of foreign states and non-state actors would, in the best of times, present the left with a real challenge to find political clarity. The fact that this is occurring precisely when the antiwar movement in countries like Canada and the United States are relatively weak only adds to the confusion. Continue Reading…
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an Open Letter to Law Enforcement and National Guard in North Dakota – Published on ZNet, by Winona La Duke, Ann Wright and Zoltan Grossman, Nov 2, 2016.
So you joined law enforcement or the National Guard because you wanted to uphold the law, protect innocent civilians against the bad guys, and help your community in times of need. Instead, they’re having you blockade unarmed people who are trying to hold a prayer vigil, chasing them with armored vehicles and ATVs, raiding their tipis and sweat lodges at gunpoint, and shooting them (and their horses) with pepper spray, concussion grenades, tasers, and rubber bullets. You thought you’d be the cop on the beat or the citizen soldier, and they’ve made you into the cavalry riding in with Custer. Continue Reading…
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Published on New Economic Thinking, by Dean Baker, Oct 27, 2016.
Offshoring manufacturing may have hurt many working people in America, but professionals and intellectual property have been robustly protected. Continue Reading…
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Published on ROARmag.org, by Harriet Paintin and Hannah Kirmes-Daly, Oct 31, 2016.
Chaos and confusion prevail as the autonomous migrant camp in Calais is being cleared, but few have any doubts that before long new Jungles will arise. Continue Reading…
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Published on Global Research.ca, by F. William Engdahl, Jan 28, 2016. Bill Gates, Rockefeller and the GMO giants know something we don’t (first published in same blog on Dec 4, 2007) … //
… No project is more interesting at the moment than a curious project in one of the world’s most remote spots, Svalbard. Continue Reading…
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Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1321, by Leo Panitch, Oct 29, 2016.
Canada’s Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland’s sense of amour propre was clearly dented last week when the latest talks to salvage the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the European Union and Canada appeared to fall apart in face of the refusal of the Belgian regional parliament in Wallonia to accede to the Belgian government’s support for it. Continue Reading…
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Published on by Systemic Disorder, Oct 26, 2016.
Class warfare is poised to reach a new milestone as this year’s combined total of dividends and stock buybacks by 500 of the world’s largest corporations will exceed US$1 trillion. Continue Reading…
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Published on Dissident Voice, by Binoy Kampmark, Oct 26, 2016.
… It grew out as an organic consequence of failure – a failure on the part of Europe’s authorities to come to some measure of proportionate and even handed procedures to assess and process desperate refugees who have very little intention of returning back to their countries. Continue Reading…
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Published on ZNet (first on TomDispatch), by Nomi Prins, Oct 27, 2016.
As this endless election limps toward its last days, while spiraling into a bizarre duel over vote-rigging accusations, a deep sigh is undoubtedly in order. The entire process has been an emotionally draining, frustration-inducing, rage-inflaming spectacle of repellent form over shallow substance. For many, the third debate evoked fatigue. Continue Reading…