politics for the 99%

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…