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Written on January 31st, 2016 in Index by heidi
Written on January 31st, 2016 in politics by heidi
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Written on January 31st, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on RT, Jan 30, 2016.
A federal court judge in Portland has denied bail to Ammon Bundy and three of his cohorts as the occupation of a federal wildlife refuge building in Burns, Oregon continues. The FBI says four people remain there as the protest hits its fourth week.
The leader of the group of armed men that occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Ammon Bundy, as well as his brother Ryan, Brian Cavalier, and Ryan Payne, were all denied release on Friday. US Magistrate Judge Stacie Beckerman said that they posed a danger to public safety and were considered a flight risk, as she was concerned they would not follow orders to return to Oregon for criminal proceedings … // Continue Reading…
Written on January 30th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on Basic Income Earth Network BIEN, by Stanislas Jourdan, Jan 28, 2016.
Critics of basic income have been proven wrong once again. Giving everyone the means to survive would not make people lazy. A new opinion poll carried out in Switzerland shows that only a tiny fraction of the population would stop working if they had a Universal Basic Income (UBI). What is more, most young people believe UBI will be implemented in the future.
The survey was conducted by DemoSCOPE and released on January 27, 2016 (you can read the full results here). Among the 1076 respondents, only 2% said they would stop working completely, while another 8% said they would ‘rather’ stop working. This trend is also persistent among the youth, were only 3% said they would stop working. However, about a third of the respondents think “others would stop working.” Continue Reading…
Written on January 29th, 2016 in politics by heidi
- The Lie We Live, 8.28 min, uploaded by Freshtastical, Jan 27, 2015 … (subtitled in french: le mensonge que nous sommes en train de vivre)
- Thoughts on Egypt’s revolution from the ground, 3.11 min, uploaded by Middle East Eye, Jan 25, 2016;
- The case for radical modernity, on red pepper.org.uk, by Jeremy Gilbert, Jan 2016: the left should embrace technological innovation and new class alliances as part of a strategy for 21st-century socialism;
- Shocking Disfunction and The Power Of Oligarchs, 62.38 min, uploaded by Minethis1, Nov 4, 2015 … Candid interview with Yanis Varoufakis (subtitled in german);
- Die neue, selbstorganisierte, ressourcenbasierte Wirtschaft – Prof. Franz Hörmann, 96.15 min, von NeueHorizonteTV am 25. September 2014 hochgeladen … und weitere Videos in autoplay;
- Rethink your life, 4.56 min, uploaded by iReleaseEndorphins, Feb 8, 2012;
- The Story of Your Enslavement, 13.09 min, uploaded by Stefan Molyneux, April 17, 2010.
Written on January 29th, 2016 in comment, politics by heidi
Published on tni.org.uk, Jan 25, 2016.
Final declaration of the Global Forum of Producers of Prohibited Plants.
In a global meeting small scale farmers of cannabis, coca and opium from 14 countries discussed their contribution to the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS). The UNGASS will discuss all aspects of global drug control policies, including the worldwide ban on the cultivation of coca, poppy and cannabis, an issue the Global Farmers Forum demands that their voices be heard and taken into account … // Continue Reading…
Written on January 28th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on ZNet (first on red pepper.org), Jan 27, 2016.
What do you see as the main threats to democracy today?
- The threat to democracy has always been the disdain the establishment has for it. Democracy by its nature is very fragile and the antipathy towards it by the establishment is always extremely pronounced, and the establishment has always sought to undo it. Continue Reading…
Written on January 27th, 2016 in politics by heidi
… rightists’ election victory poses major threat to Venezuela’s advances – Published 0n The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1211, by Richard Fidler, Jan 25, 2016.
Seventeen years after Hugo Chávez was elected Venezuela’s President for the first time, the supporters of his Bolivarian Revolution, now led by President Nicolás Maduro, suffered their first major defeat in a national election in the December 6 elections to the country’s parliament, the National Assembly … // Continue Reading…
Written on January 26th, 2016 in politics by heidi
- We Can’t Address the EU Refugee Crisis Without Confronting Global Capitalism – Slavoj Zizek, on IN THESE TIMES, by SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK, Sept 9, 2015;
- Environment, Identity and Multiculturalism – discussion with Slavoj Zizek, 40.13 min, uploaded by Science and Scolastic, July 24, 2015;
- What does it mean to be a great thinker today – Slavoj Zizek, 111.54 min, uploaded by IWM Vienna, May 6, 2015 … Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen / Institute for Human Sciences;
- an excerpt of above: Continue Reading…
Written on January 25th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on Real World Economic Review Blog RWER, by Norbert Häring, Jan 22, 2016.
A central bank governor in Athens conspires with the President of the Republic to sabotage the negotiation strategy of his government to weaken it in its negotiations with the European Central Bank. After the government has capitulated, this governor, who is a close friend of the new finance minister and boss of the finance ministers wife, and the President of the Republic travel together to the ECB to collect their praise and rewards. This is not an invention, this is now documented. Continue Reading…
Written on January 24th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on Spiegel Online International, conducted by Bernhard Zand, Jan 22, 2016: … (she) discusses the recent market crash, the end of China’s building boom and why she views Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as a role model for the wealthy … //
… SPIEGEL: In comparison, how did things start out for you?
- Zhang: When we started out, we were among the first. Beijing had no and Shanghai had very few large buildings. At that time, it was all about building, building, building — and then selling, selling, selling. We were working like a manufacturer. Soon, however, we realized that land was running out in Beijing and Shanghai. So we started keeping our buildings, and managing and renting them out. We became landowners. That was the second act. Continue Reading…
Written on January 23rd, 2016 in comment, have a look at by heidi
SAP-Manager hält bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen für wichtig, auf gulli/news, 22. Jan 2016.
Wir befinden uns vor einer neuen industriellen Revolution, die viele Menschen die Arbeitsplätze kosten könnte. Das sehen sogar Manager von Unternehmen so und fordern daher, dass die Regierungen etwas tun. SAP-Vorstandsmitglied Bernd Leukert hält ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen für wichtig, damit die Gesellschaft nicht auseinanderbricht … // Continue Reading…
Written on January 23rd, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on ASIA TIMES, by ASIA UNHEDGED China, Jan 21, 2016.
The People’s Bank of China BPOC on Wednesday said it wants to issue its own digital currency to cut the costs of circulating traditional paper money, boost policymakers’ control of money supply and improve the efficiency of global transactions.
The central bank set up a research team in 2014 to study digital currencies and application scenarios, according to a statement posted on the regulator’s website. Continue Reading…
Written on January 22nd, 2016 in politics by heidi
How to kill the demos: the water struggle in Italy
Published on ZNet (first on Roarmag.org), by Andrea Muehlebach, January 20, 2016.
On November 28, 2015, water activists from the Southern Italian region of Campania staged a massive protest in the city of Naples. Some 5,000 water activists and environmentalists, trade unionists and workers from Naples’ water works protested a recently passed regional law that aims to centralize water management and set the stage for water privatization … // Continue Reading…
Written on January 21st, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on ZNet, by Paul Rubin, Jan 18, 2016.
The labor movement in this country is in deep crisis. All too many unions are losing members, confronting deteriorating job conditions, and fighting defensive battles. One would think that labor in conservative, right-to-work states would be in the worst shape of all. But this is not necessarily so. One union local in historically conservative Arizona has continued to grow not just in size but, more importantly, in influence. I believe there are lessons here for labor activists across the nation … //
… Internal Organizing/Education: Continue Reading…
Written on January 20th, 2016 in politics by heidi
… and How Not to Be Fooled – Published on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, Jan 17, 2016; (first by Larry Schwartz on AlterNet).
… Americans, as P.T. Barnum once noted, are not all that difficult to fool, and our nation’s somewhat weak math skills don’t help. A Pew Research Center report issued last year, which studied test results of 15-year-olds, ranked the United States 35th in the world in math. Not only has this weakness in understanding numbers created opportunities for mass exploitation by Big Pharma and other industries, it has led to needless and mostly unwarranted fear. While Americans don’t understand math, be assured that corporations do, and they happily use it to mislead and obfuscate in the name of selling their products. Continue Reading…
Written on January 19th, 2016 in politics by heidi
- The Costs of Capitalism’s Crisis, Who Will Pay? 95.00 min, uploade by Joe Friendly, Jan 27, 2012;
- Marxian Economics vs Capitalism with Economist Prof. Richard D. Wolff, 37.31 min, uploaded by TYT Interviews, Aug 4, 2014 … Professor Richard D. Wolff. is one of the world’s leading Marxian economists and is a professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, where he taught from 1973 to 2008. He is also currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York. He is also a founding member of the Green Party of New Haven Connecticut, is the host of Economic Update, at WBAI in New York City, and has co-authored 13 books, most recently “Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism” in 2012 …;
- MALAYSIA: Budget 2016 revision not austerity measures, says Wahid, on The Edge Markets, by Kamarul Anwar, by Simeon Kerr, Jan 19, 2016;
- Spain’s deadlocked parliament a reflection of the crisis of the regime, on In Defense of Marxism, by Jorge Martin, Jan 18, 2016;
- Unions, Kirchnerite leaders blast austerity measures, repression, on Buenos Aires Herald, Jan 11, 2016.
Written on January 19th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on The Atlantic, by Molly Ball, Jan 16, 2016.
The Working Families Party has pushed the political debate to the left in the states where it’s already active. Now—in the era of Occupy and Bernie Sanders—it’s ready to take that fight nationwide.
At a recent private dinner in Manhattan, a small group of leftists plotted to take over America. Continue Reading…
Written on January 18th, 2016 in politics by heidi
- Global Capitalism – Monthly Economic Update January 2016, 91.48 min, uploaded by Richard D Wolff, Jan 13, 2016;
- Days of Revolt, the Making of Global Capitalism, 25.01 min, uploaded by teleSUR english, Sept 7, 2015;
- Audio: truthout on the radio – a critique of capitalism – Richard Wolff, uploaded by Kinda Gamey, March 26, 2014: Part 1, 22.55 min; Part 2, 8.42 min;
- The Crisis of Global Capitalism, ten years on – Prof John Gray, 88.29 min, uploaded by London School of Economics and Political Science LSE, Dec 17, 2010; Continue Reading…
Written on January 17th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Written on January 16th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on Spiegel Online International, by Christoph Reuter in Korin, Syria, Jan 13, 2016 (Photo Gallery).
Even as war continues to rage in Syria, normal people in the country are doing their best to survive in places like the village of Korin. It has transformed into a kind of mini-republic and has WiFi on the town square. But its population is slowly dwindling. Continue Reading…
Written on January 15th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Uplpaded by Deutsches Haus:
- Slavoj Žižek: Is Hegel Dead—Or Are We Dead in the Eyes of Hegel? 194.00 min, Oct 30, 2015 … a Hegelian View of the Present Age. Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Department of German at NYU present a talk by Slavoj Žižek, Global Distinguished Professor of German at NYU … Introduced by Avital Ronell, Professor of German and Comparative Literature at NYU …;
- Slavoj Žižek: The Hegelian Wound, 121.21 min, Sept 26, 2014;
- German Idealism and Psychoanalysis, with Slavoj Zizek, Alenka Zupancic, Mladen Dolar – Part 1, 10.26 min, May 7, 2012 … followed by parts 2 to 5 in autoplay;
Continue Reading…
Written on January 14th, 2016 in politics by Administrator
Published on ZNet (first on Other Worlds), by Mphatheleini Makaulele, Simone Adler and Beverly Bell, Jan 9, 2016.
… Everybody originated with indigenous ways of living and the way of Mother Earth.
The real role of women is in the seed. It is the women who harvest, select, store, and plant seeds. Our seeds come from our mothers and our grandmothers. To us, the seed is the symbol of the continuity of life. Seed is not just about the crops. Seed is about the soil, about the water, and about the forest. Continue Reading…
Written on January 13th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on Spiegel Online International, by Matthias Bartsch and Anna Clauß, Jan 5, 2016.
Absurd, unfounded reports about asylum seekers are circulating on German social media. They are part of a targeted misinformation campaign by right-wing extremists designed to instill fear and stoke anti-migrant sentiment. But where do the stories come from? Continue Reading…
Written on January 12th, 2016 in politics by Administrator
… Supreme Court Case - Published on Common Dreams, by Sarah Lazare, Jan 8, 2016 (the Case could result in the enforcement of ‘Right to Work’ laws on all public sector labor unions in the United States).
Workers across the United States are bracing for a major Supreme Court case, set for argument on Monday, that could strike a devastating blow to public sector unions nationwide. Continue Reading…