politics for the 99%

2015-02-01: Merkel’s unintended creation, could Tsipras’ Win upset balance of power in Europe?
2015-02-02: Sick or Psychotic? Bradley Cooper in American Sniper;
2015-02-03: US mulls providing Kiev forces with ‘defensive’ weapons – report;
2015-02-04: Richard D. Wolff about Global Capitalism and European’s Austerity Fight;
2015-02-04: Pegida oder nicht? Charlie oder was? … und was noch?
2015-02-05: Class War Furor;
2015-02-05: aus der Rosa-Luxemburg-Konferenz;
2015-02-06: the lessons that can be drawn from the failure of the Greek 2012 restructuring;
2015-02-07: The Last Days of Annie Bus, a Chronicle of Dutch Euthanasia;
2015-02-08: Democracy in the Digital Era;
2015-02-08: Geld – Gold – globale Gesellschaft;
2015-02-09: Save democracy, Stop the attack on, and expand voting rights;
2015-02-10: 40 world leaders “marching with the people” …;
2015-02-10: What is a Conspiracy Theory? What is the Truth?
2015-02-11: The Grand Manipulation;
2015-02-11: Banking Giant HSBC Sheltered Murky Cash Linked to Dictators and Arms Dealers;
2015-02-12: A ‘basic income system’ could be feasible in Spain;
2015-02-13: Leaking Against the Impossible: Whistleblower John Kiriakou, CIA Torture and Leaking;
2015-02-13: 16-hour Minsk marathon: Vodka for journos, Merkel’s cell died, Lavrov smokes;
2015-02-14: The Rojava Revolution and the Liberation of Kobani;
2015-02-15: Putin set to drop “truth bomb” on USA;
2015-02-16: Cuba: Land of Opportunity;
2015-02-17: Beyond the Market-State, Decentralising Power in a Sharing Society;
2015-02-18: Interview with Greek Finance Minister Varoufakis;
2015-02-19: Guantanamo of the East, Ukraine Locks Up Refugees at EU’s Behest;
2015-02-20: Speaking out on religion, salvation or destruction;
2015-02-21: The Coercion of Greece;
2015-02-22: Transnational Capitalist Class TCC and related articles;
2015-02-23: Videos with Yanis Varoufakis;
2015-02-24: Swimming with the Sharks;
2015-02-25: Tsípras: Scared by His Own Courage;
2015-02-26: 25 Facts About the Pharmaceutical Industry, Vaccines and “Anti-Vaxers”;
2015-02-27: BILD says ‘NEIN’ to Greece bailout extension;
2015-02-28: The chance of an American being killed by terrorists is close to zero;
2015-02-28: Basic Income BIG – Revenu de Base – Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen BGE, FEBRUARY 1-28, 2015.

related articles published during February 2015 … : Continue Reading…

… the risk is calculated to be 1 in 20 million – Published on Intrepid Report, by John Chuckman, Feb 27, 2015.

… Let’s get a rough total estimate of what has happened to Americans from these causes in the time since 9/11. Just using the low number in each case for fourteen years, 7,000 Americans were killed by their own police, 420,000 were killed by something parked in their garage, 210,000 were murdered by fellow citizens, 1,400,000 were killed by friendly family doctors, and there were 560,000 who just decided to pack it in for one reason or another. The total of these various causes of death rounds to 2,600,000 deaths, nearly 867 times the number of Americans killed in 9/11, 867 collapsed sets of twin towers, nearly 62 collapsed sets of towers per year.   Continue Reading…

Published on The Local.de, Feb 26, 2015:

BILD, Europe’s biggest-selling daily newspaper, on Thursday targeted plans for an extension to Greece’s bailout by asking readers to email in selfies with the paper’s “NEIN” headline. NO! No more billions for the greedy Greeks! the paper declared in its print and online editions. It urged readers to snap a selfie while holding it and email it back to the paper as part of a campaign against further subsidies.   Continue Reading…

Published on Global Research.ca, by Julie Lévesque, Feb 25, 2015.

… Why is the media so keen on portraying Big Pharma critics as crazy, uneducated, unscientific and irresponsible people?

Dr Marcia Angell worked for over two decades as editor of The New England Journal of Medicine. She was fired after criticizing the pharmaceutical industry, which had exerted a n overriding and negative influence on the scientific literature. She said: “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published.”   Continue Reading…

Published on Dissident Voice, by Wilhelm Langthaler, February 21, 2015.

… Sýriza is prisoners of its own past, its origins in the euro-communist Synaspismós. For them the European Union has been the greatest achievement of the post-war period. Only they would need to make it more socially inclined. They failed to understand that the very raison d’être of the EU is to destroy the welfare states which historically had grown within the nation states.   Continue Reading…

… Goldman Sachs, School Districts, and Capital Appreciation Bonds – Published on Dissident Voice, by Ellen Hodgson Brown, Feb 21, 2015.

… Remember when Goldman Sachs, dubbed by Matt Taibbi “The Vampire Squid”, sold derivatives to Greece so the government could conceal its debt, then bet against that debt, driving it up? It seems that the ubiquitous investment bank has also put the squeeze on California and its school districts. Not that Goldman was alone in this; but the unscrupulous practices of the bank once called the undisputed king of the municipal bond business epitomize the culture of greed that has ensnared students and future generations in unrepayable debt.   Continue Reading…

• The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy, 57.26 min, uploaded by SkriptaTV, Feb 12, 2015 – his book/same title: on  Zed Books, London, 2013; on amazon; on Google Web-search … followed by other videos in autoplay;
• Yanis Varoufakis on February 5, 2015, 9.58 min, uploaded by Podemos ecoLogicos, Feb 10, 2015;
• All the good stuff that cannot be measured, 19.59 min, uploaded by SkriptaTV, Feb 7, 2015 (first on Democratic Underground);
• Chinese credit speculation, the Greek debt crisis and US earnings woes, 27.46 min, uploaded by Boom Bust, Jan 28, 2015;
• Who is Yanis Varoufakis? 2.10 min, uploaded by CNNMoney, Jan 28, 2015;   Continue Reading…

• A Very Dark Chapter of Globalization, Part 3/3, Flassbeck, 13.07 min, uploaded on YouTube by TheRealNews, Feb 6, 2015
• Why you can not have a Capitalist Democracy – Noam Chomsky, 17.46 min, uploaded by Leigha Cohen, Oct 5, 2014;
• Peter Phillips: Project Censored and the Transnational Corporate Class, 69.00 min, uploaded by freespeechtv, Oct 3, 2014;
• Until the Rulers Obey – Learning from Latin America’s Social Movements, on Covering Activism an Politics in Latin America (Upside Down World.org) by Clifton Ross and Marcy Rein, Sept 24, 2014: An excerpt from the introduction to Until the Rulers Obey: Voices of from Latin American Social Movements, edited by Clifton Ross and Marcy Rein /Oakland: PM Press, 2014;   Continue Reading…

Published on ZNet (first on Counterpunch), by Mark Weisbrot, Feb 20, 2015.

The Economist’s February 6 cover displayed the Venus de Milo statue pointing a revolver, with the headline “Go ahead, Angela, make my day.” In the editors’ upside-down world, Greece is threatening Europe, or at least Germany. Really? Continue Reading…

Published on Intrepid Report, by Dave Alpert, Feb 19, 2015.

I was born a Jew and grew up in The Bronx in New York City. At the age of 13, I was Bar Mitzvad. As I grew older, I became more and more disenchanted with religion as an institution. I became aware of the historical role religion played in the life and destiny of man, a history which demonstrates wars, deaths, and destruction all in the name of God. Continue Reading…

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Maximillian Popp, Feb 17, 2015:  (Photo Gallery).

Brussels is doing all it can to prevent refugees from reaching Fortress Europe, with initiatives like funding the construction of interment centers in Ukraine. Asylum seekers who have spent time there report miserable conditions and abuse.   Continue Reading…

… Austerity Has Done Nothing to Solve Greece’s Problems – Published on Spiegel Online International, by Thomas Hüetlin and Alexander Neubacher, Feb 2015.

Greek Finance Minister Giannis Varoufakis has had little luck convincing his EU counterparts that Athens needs a debt cut. He speaks with SPIEGEL about why austerity has failed, how aid conditions are like waterboarding and where the bailout money went …; Continue Reading…

Published on Dissident Voice, by Rajesh Makwana, February 15, 2015.

At a time when governments are failing abysmally to mitigate climate change, reduce inequality or end poverty, the key to creating a more equal and sustainable world is establishing participative forms of political engagement at all levels of society – from the local to the global … //

… From local alternatives to global reforms: … // Continue Reading…

Published on Washington’s Blog, by DavidSwanson, Feb 15, 2015: What can I be sure of after only one week in Havana? Very little. There are exceptions to every pattern, and sometimes more exceptions than patterns. But a few claims, I think, are possible … // Continue Reading…

… plus (scroll down): Pravda: Putin droht mit Veröffentlichung von 9/11-Beweismaterial – Published on Veterans Today VT, by Kevin Barrett, Feb 12, 2015: will Russia blow 9/11 wide open?

As Gordon Duff reported here Tuesday – and as discussed on today’s False Flag Weekly News (posted above – click here for story links) – Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing the release of Russian satellite photos and other evidence showing that 9/11 was a false-flag operation by treasonous elements of the American national security community.   Continue Reading…

Published on ZNet, by Justin Podur and Sardar Saadi, Feb 13, 2015.

Since September of 2014, the city of Kobani has been in the news as the site of a battle between Kurdish forces from the Rojava region and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). At the end of January, the Kurdish forces (YPG and YPJ) announced that Kobani had successfully repelled the attack. But ISIS is still in control of villages surrounding Kobani and maintaining its threat to other parts of Rojava.   Continue Reading…

Published on Russia Today RT, Feb 13, 2015.

From journalists’ sleepless wanderings in the Minsk palace to “buckets of coffee” served to the leaders, RT has gathered most interesting moments from behind the scenes of the epic all-night Ukraine peace negotiations.

(READ MORE: Ukraine peace deal: Ceasefire starting February 15, removal of heavy weapons)

Hide-and-seek in the palace:   Continue Reading…

Published on Global Research.ca, by Binoy Kampmark, Feb 12, 2015.

… He was the only agent of the Central Intelligence Agency to blow the otherwise hesitant whistle on the torture program made infamous by the Bush administration. And for all that good grace, he paid with a prison sentence, having violated the covenant of the espionage service. In 2007, John Kiriakou publicly confirmed and noted the use of waterboarding by agents in dealing with terrorist suspects. And it hardly came with bells and whistles. Continue Reading…

… but only by reframing the current debate – Published on London School of Economics LSE, by José A. Noguera, Feb 4, 2015.

… The concept of a ‘basic income’ is now at the centre of the political agenda in Spain: at least since the left-wing party Podemos, which has surged to the top of Spanish opinion polling in recent months, included the proposal in its political programme for the last European election. Under different names (‘Citizens Income’, ‘Universal Basic Income’, ‘Basic Income Guarantee’), the idea essentially involves paying an unconditional minimum income to all citizens.   Continue Reading…

Published on International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ICIJ.org, by Gerard Ryle, Will Fitzgibbon, Mar Cabra, Rigoberto Carvajal, Marina Walker Guevara, Martha M. Hamilton and Tom Stites, Feb 8, 2015.

Team of journalists from 45 countries unearths secret bank accounts maintained for criminals, traffickers, tax dodgers, politicians and celebrities. Continue Reading…

Published on Intrepid Report, by Paul Craig Roberts, Feb 9, 2015:

Americans are the most manipulated people in history. Since 2008, the economy has been manipulated for the benefit of a few oversized banks “too big to fail.” US foreign policy has been manipulated to serve the hegemonic agenda of a handful of neoconservatives. These manipulations have undercut the consumer basis of the US economy and have pushed the American people into a conflict situation with Russia and China.   Continue Reading…

Published on Global Research.ca, by Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Feb 05, 2015.

… Xenophobia and the Military Agenda:

• The wave of xenophobia directed against Muslims which has swept across Western Europe is tied into geopolitics. It is part of a military agenda. It consists in demonizing the enemy.   Continue Reading…

We read this headline: “Paris march: TV wide shots reveal a different perspective on world leaders at largest demonstration in France’s history“, on The Indepndent.co.uk, by Adam Withnall, Jan 12, 2015. Critics suggest images show dignitaries ‘didn’t lead march’ after all, but many still speak positively about display of global unity.

en français:   Continue Reading…

Published on Political Affairs, by political action commission of the communist party USA, Feb 3, 2015.

• Ordinary Americans have had to battle for the right to vote from the very beginning. When the Constitution was adopted there was no explicit guarantee of the right to vote for anyone, including US citizens. In fact there was not even a definition of US citizen in the Constitution.

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