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Written on October 31st, 2015 in Index by heidi
Written on October 31st, 2015 in politics by heidi
related articles published during Octobre 2015: (continuously updated …) Continue Reading…
Written on October 31st, 2015 in politics by heidi
Published on Russia Today RT, Oct 29, 2015;
The majority of European Parliament members have voted in favor of asking constituent states to grant protection to whistleblower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who has described the move as a ‘game-changer’ and a ‘chance to move forward’ … // Continue Reading…
Written on October 30th, 2015 in politics by heidi
ACTUALLY – RT on Air: tensions at the Slovenian-Austrian border …
Published on The Independent.co.uk, by Jamie Merrill, Oct 29, 2015.
Kawphar Zangana would not say how his wife died. It was too much for him. “They [Isis] took her from me in Iraq. Now I can only help my children get to Germany.” Continue Reading…
Written on October 29th, 2015 in politics by heidi
… in five videos – can be seen without understanding the german spoken explanations – uploaded by P.-Călin A., 2014: Continue Reading…
Written on October 28th, 2015 in politics by heidi
uploaded by LeftStreamed, Oct 2015: part 1/5, 30.37 min; part 2/5, 10.25 min; part 3/5, 11.54 min; part 4/5, 08.57 min; part 5/5, 16.01 min … (also on Socialist Project; Continue Reading…
Written on October 27th, 2015 in politics by heidi
… an inability to understand signs can cost fighters their lives – night school aims to change that – Published on The Independent.co.uk, by Cathy Otten, Oct 25, 2015.
A student looks diligently up at his teacher and then down at an exercise book filled with rows of letters. Shkur Miro and the rest of the men listening carefully to what their teacher tells them are Peshmerga fighters, taking a break from the war with Isis. Continue Reading…
Written on October 26th, 2015 in politics by heidi
Published on Global Research.ca, by Kevin Barrett, Oct 20, 2015 (with video, 5.55 min … and the book link about).
The truth about the September 11, 2001 terror attacks would not only destabilize the American political system but it would also take down the US as a global empire, an American scholar says. Continue Reading…
Written on October 25th, 2015 in politics by heidi
Published on Spiegel Online International, a commentary by Markus Feldenkirchen, Oct 20, 2015.
The World Cup scandal brought to light by SPIEGEL serves as a reminder that Germany is nowhere near as perfect as it had started to look – ironically, around the time of that historic “fairytale summer” … //
… With its social market economy, Germany also appeared to have defied the law of capitalism that requires one to be a little coarse and unscrupulous in order to prevail. Continue Reading…
Written on October 24th, 2015 in politics by heidi
Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1175, by Sungur Savran, Oct 19, 2015.
The immense catastrophe that struck Turkey in the streets of Ankara, the capital city, on 10 October, when two bombs exploded in the midst of a thronging crowd of what would possibly turn out to be hundreds of thousands of people, leading to the death of an indefinite number of people, in any case exceeding one hundred, and the wounding of hundreds, some still under the risk of death, is a sharp reminder, if any were needed, that this is a country undergoing a severe political crisis … // Continue Reading…
Written on October 23rd, 2015 in politics by heidi
Published on Global Research.ca, Oct 20, 2015.
(See also Arrest Records).
The following infographic shows us how profitable the US prison industry is. “Between 1980 and 1994, profits went up from $392 million to $1.31 billion” dollars. As reported in The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?, inmates, mostly Blacks and Hispanics, are also being exploited by various industries: Continue Reading…
Written on October 22nd, 2015 in politics by heidi
REPORT from Human Rights Watch HRW - Published on relief web.int, by Lydia Gall, Oct 20, 2015.
We are stuck between two borders. We can’t enter Slovenia and we are not allowed to go back into Croatia. Everyone says we are someone else’s responsibility.”
25-year-old Hadi from Syria was shivering as we spoke. He said he had been stuck for nearly 20 hours, exposed to rain and cold in the no-man’s land between the Croatian and Slovenian borders. I met him there last night, together with hundreds of other migrants and asylum seekers, including many women and children, who were brought from Croatia’s Tavornik camp at about 1 a.m. the morning before. Continue Reading…
Written on October 21st, 2015 in politics by heidi
Medication rates high for ADHD sufferers – Published on JMU (Liverpool UK), by Amy Cole, Oct 19, 2015.
Medication for Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder [ADHD] is being heavily prescribed across Merseyside, with statistics showing Wirral ranking second highest in the country … //
… Dr Tony Lloyd from the Liverpool-based ADHD Foundation says that medication isn’t always the best option and can cause reliance on a pill for a chronic condition.
He told JMU Journalism: “Sadly, in most parts of the country, medication is the first and only line of treatment.”
Blame is quick to fall on doctors for overprescribing and not offering alternative treatments and therapies … // Continue Reading…
Written on October 20th, 2015 in politics by heidi
Published Croatia, the War and the Future, by Ina Vukic, Oct 18, 2015.
More than 190,000 refugees and migrants have crossed into Croatia over the past month and assisted to cross over Hungary to richer European countries (383,000 have crossed Hungary so far this year). At midnight Friday 16 October Hungary sealed its border with Croatia and, hence, refugees making their way to Hungary from Croatia can no longer contemplate that route. Continue Reading…
Written on October 19th, 2015 in politics by heidi
Published on Middle East Eye MEE, Oct 17, 2015.
British resident Shaker Aamer has been imprisoned without charge by US authorities since 2001.
A senior UK politician will be taking part in a hunger strike to show support for the last British resident held at the US run Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba. Continue Reading…
Written on October 18th, 2015 in politics by heidi
Interview with integration specialist Naika Foroutan – Published on Spiegel Online International, by Frank Hornig and Maximilian Popp, Okt 14, 2015: Doubt has lately begun creeping into the German refugee debate, but integration specialist Naika Foroutan says that the new Germany has sent its message loudly and clearly: We can absorb the refugees … //
… SPIEGEL: Will competition for jobs increase? Continue Reading…
Written on October 17th, 2015 in politics by heidi
Published on Spiegel Online International, by Christoph Scheuermann, Oct 15, 2015:
They drink heavily, shatter champagne flutes and smash furniture — before moving on to positions of leadership. The elite Bullingdon Club is an exclusive haven for Britain’s rich and powerful. But members don’t like to talk about it. Continue Reading…
Written on October 16th, 2015 in politics by heidi
Published on Abel Danger, by Paul Craig Roberts, Oct 11, 2015.
“Information Clearing House” – The world is beginning to realize that a sea change in world affairs occurred on September 28 when President Putin of Russia stated in his UN speech that Russia can no longer tolerate Washington’s vicious, stupid, and failed policies that have unleashed chaos which is engulfing the Middle East and now Europe. Two days later, Russia took over the military situation in Syria and began the destruction of the Islamic State forces … // Continue Reading…
Written on October 15th, 2015 in politics by heidi
what happens?
US: The lead investigative reporter in the case of 11 holistic doctors that have died mysteriously within the last 90 days:
Mysterious Death of Holistic Doctors Uncovered, 7.54 min, uploaded by WeAreChange, Oct 9, 2015 … in this video Luke Rudkowski interviews Erin Elizabeth of health nut news; Continue Reading…
Written on October 15th, 2015 in politics by heidi
Published on Deal Street Asia, by Shiwen Yap, Oct 12, 2015.
With its fragmented economies, diverse language and geographies, as well as differing developmental status, the Asia Pacific (APAC) region is often seen as a challenging regional economy for businesses to operate in. Another major issue is the wealth inequality seen across the region, especially in major economies like India, the Philippines and Indonesia. Continue Reading…
Written on October 14th, 2015 in politics by heidi
Published on counterpunch, by Jeremy Malcolm, Oct 13, 2015.
… Since we now have the agreed text, we’ll be including some paragraph references that you can cross-reference for yourself – but be aware that some of them contain placeholders like ‘x’ that may change in the cleaned-up text.
Also, our analysis here is limited to the copyright and Internet-related provisions of the chapter, but analyses of the impacts of other parts of the chapter have been published by Wikileaks and others. Continue Reading…
Written on October 13th, 2015 in comment, politics by heidi
Published on Dissident Voice, by James Petras, October 11, 2015.
… Putin: Demon or Realist, Autocrat or Democrat, Vassal or Independent Leader?
- The Western media has backed every oligarch, gangster, and fraudster who has gone on trial and been convicted during Putin’s term in office. The propagandists tell us the reason for this affinity between the Western media and the gangster-oligarchs is that these convicted felons, who claim to be ‘political dissidents’ and critics of Putin’s rule, have been dispossessed, and jailed for upholding ‘Western values’. Continue Reading…
Written on October 12th, 2015 in politics by heidi
Published on Social Europe.eu, by Joseph Stiglitz and Adam Hersh, Oct 5, 2015.
As negotiators and ministers from the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries meet in Atlanta in an effort to finalize the details of the sweeping new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), some sober analysis is warranted. The biggest regional trade and investment agreement in history is not what it seems.
You will hear much about the importance of the TPP for “free trade.” The reality is that this is an agreement to manage its members’ trade and investment relations – and to do so on behalf of each country’s most powerful business lobbies. Make no mistake: It is evident from the main outstanding issues, over which negotiators are still haggling, that the TPP is not about “free” trade. Continue Reading…
Written on October 11th, 2015 in politics by heidi
Pubished on Social Europe, by Sinob Glendinning, Oct 9, 2015.
… Nietzsche is a German philosopher best known for his radical critique of Europe’s historical (and especially Christian) morality of “good and evil”. However, it is less well known that his efforts to go “beyond” the Europe of those values is still made in the name of Europe, and specifically with reference to the coming of a new “supra-national and nomadic type of man” that he calls “good Europeans” (154). These Europeans will have achieved independence of any “definite milieu” (153), and belong to a Europe that “wants to become one” (169). In what follows I want briefly to raise the question why Nietzsche retains this stress on Europe. Why does Nietzsche speak of “we Europeans”, and not simply, say, “we whoevers”? … // Continue Reading…
Written on October 10th, 2015 in politics by heidi
Published on Global Research.ca, by Binoy Kampmark, Oct 8, 2015: Global Markets Imperilled by “Unfree Trade”.
… The estranged political classes continued their defiance of democratic practice by signing, again without the involvement of non-trade interests, a document that has been sold as a choice between the rash and the damned. The delegates at the Atlanta round of talks for the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement came from twelve states, and some of them were acutely aware that domestic matters were pressing. The election cycle in the United States is starting to gain steam. Canada faces a close election on October 19. Australia’s new prime minister is hunkering down. Continue Reading…