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Written on March 31st, 2016 in Index by heidi
Written on March 31st, 2016 in politics by heidi
related articles published during March 2016: (continuously updated … ) Continue Reading…
Written on March 31st, 2016 in politics by heidi
… German authors add subtitles instead – Published on RT, March 30, 2016 [with VIDEO]: the satirical piece about “The big boss from Bosporus,” who is “ripe for his great Ottoman Empire,” starts off with criticizing Erdogan crackdown on freedom of speech. Erdogan is also criticized for the alleged shuffling of the electorate votes and cracking down on women …;
Ankara reportedly pressurized Berlin into removing a satirical clip aired by NDR earlier this month. However, the show’s producers decided to amplify the message and released English and Turkish subtitled versions of the video criticizing the Turkish President. Continue Reading…
Written on March 30th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on Washington’s Blog, by Charles Hugh Smith, March 28, 2016.
If you work for Corporate America in a managerial or professional capacity, you know all about burnout, because you see it all around you or are experiencing it yourself. Readers describe what they are seeing in the top ranks of S&P 500 corporations, and the stories (anonymous because everyone knows the truth will get them fired/blacklisted) are all about the high personal costs of earning big paychecks by making the numbers–not just revenue but the all-important profits that power the multi-trillion-dollar valuations of U.S. corporations and the stock market that glories in their magnificent and ever-growing profits. Continue Reading…
Written on March 29th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on ZNet, by Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Kevin Berends, March 24, 2016.
Five days earlier they had loaded their suitcases, laptops, snacks, kids and water—there has been no escaping the extra heft of potable water—even as they took a brief respite from the foul and cursed realities of living in Flint. At that point even a 17 hour drive with kids so wired it was like they were experiencing Parkinson-like tremors was a welcome lull from the storm. The mothers looked for little things…gestures…small hands engrossed with a book. A mischievous glance from young eyes. Anything familiar and thus reassuring that their son, their daughter was riding with them into the future they had always believed. The future they have worked so hard to provide and protect. Continue Reading…
Written on March 28th, 2016 in comment, politics by heidi
UPDATE GRèCE – Cinq projections-débats en Suisse: le 28/03 à LAUSANNE, le 29/03 à VEVEY et le 30/03 à NEUCHÂTEL, by YANNIS YOULOUNTAS
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… Finalising Cruelty: The EU-Turkey Agreement on Refugees, published on Dissident Voice, by Binoy Kampmark, March 26, 2016.
It seemed a foregone conclusion, but here it was, a ghastly cuddling show between Turkish officials and Donald Tusk, President of the European Council. Both political forces had united behind a refugee containment system that is compromised from start to finish, one designed to frustrate and ultimately terminate the desire to flee lands in conflict. Continue Reading…
Written on March 27th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on Dissident Voice, by Bruce Lerro, March 25, 2016.
Is there political life outside of electoral politics?
Is it possible to be “political” in the United States and not get involved in electoral politics? For most of human history there have been “high politics” of kings and aristocrats and “low politics” of peasants, artisans and proletarians. Yet before roughly the 20th century, staging elections was not part of the political process. The root meaning of politics is “policy” which means setting a course or direction. Continue Reading…
Written on March 26th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on RT, March 25, 2016 (see also this video: Abandoned Afghan interpreter refused UK asylum shot by Taliban, 2.53 min, on RT, April 13, 2015 (my comment: I guess these guys knew too much, elites have no trouble to sacrify a peasant – Heidi).
A former Iraqi US Army interpreter is languishing in a troubled refugee hotspot of Idomeni after numerous failed attempts to obtain an American visa. To get it, he required – but reportedly never received – a mere acknowledgement of working for the US troops. Continue Reading…
Written on March 25th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Video, 4.15 min, on NewsHub, Auckland, by Dan Satherley, March 23, 2016;
Up until now, the relentless forward march of technology has arguably created as many jobs as it has destroyed – if not more.
But there are growing concerns this balance is about to end. Researchers have suggested in the next two decades, nearly half of all existing jobs will be lost to automation. Continue Reading…
Written on March 24th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1237, by Alfredo Saad Filho, March 23, 2016.
Every so often, the bourgeois political system runs into crisis. The machinery of the state jams; the veils of consent are torn asunder and the tools of power appear disturbingly naked. Brazil is living through one of those moments: it is dreamland for social scientists; a nightmare for everyone else. Continue Reading…
Written on March 23rd, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on Spiegel Online International, by Melanie Amann, Matthias Bartsch, Sven Becker, Markus Feldenkirchen, Jan Fleischhauer, Ralf Neukirch, René Pfister, Josef Saller and Katja Thimm, March 21, 2016 (Photo Gallery).
The success of the right-wing populist party AfD in recent state elections has shaken Germany. It is the expression of growing hatred of the elite among an expanding share of the population. Much of their anger is directed at Angela Merkel … // Continue Reading…
Written on March 22nd, 2016 in politics by heidi
Written on March 21st, 2016 in politics by heidi
… économiste HEC – ancien secrétaire général du Crédit Sisse
François de Siebenthal explique l’arnaque de la création monétaire dans sa conférence du 12 juillet 2015:
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Written on March 21st, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on Voltairenet.org, by Can Dündar, March 19, 2016.
The editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet, Can Dündar, who was recently freed from prison, published the op-ed column in Le Monde that we are reproducing here. He reveals the stakes of the agreement negotiated between the European Union and Turkey – not to have to assume the consequences of the deliberate destabilisation of Syria in exchange for 3 billion Euros per year and ignoring the dictatorship which is currently being set up by Ankara. Continue Reading…
Written on March 20th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on Toward Freedom, by Immanuel Wallerstein, March 18, 2016.
One of the many games pundits and politicians are playing these days is to spell out why and how the European Union (EU) is going to collapse, is already collapsing. Anyone who follows the news worldwide knows all the standard explanations: Grexit and Brexit will only lead to other exits; nobody wants more migrants (refugees) in their country; Germany has too much power, or not enough; ultra-rightwing forces/parties are rising almost everywhere; the Schengen Agreement providing visa-less movement is being suspended in most countries that had adopted it; unemployment is unstoppably growing … // Continue Reading…
Written on March 19th, 2016 in politics by heidi
The Global Refugee Crisis – Published on Global Research.ca (first on Share The World’s Resources STWR), by Rajesh Makwana, March 15, 2016: the real crisis is not the influx of refugees to Europe per se but a toxic combination of destabilising foreign policy agendas, economic austerity and the rise of right-wing nationalism, which is likely to push the world further into social and political chaos in the months ahead.
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Written on March 18th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on Voltairenet.org, by Thierry Meyssan, March 17, 2016.
The announcement of the partial withdrawal of the Russian Army from Syria has spawned a great number of commentaries which illustrate the preconceived bias of their authors rather than reality. Thierry Meyssan points out that the facts demonstrate not only that the differences between Moscow and Damascus have been resolved, but that Russia – which managed to topple the Western powers into the anti-terrorist camp – intends to allow Syrians to liberate their territory by themselves. Continue Reading…
Written on March 17th, 2016 in politics by heidi
… reports – Published on RT, March 16, 2016.
Kurdish-controlled autonomous areas in northern Syria are expected to declare a federal system, local media and RT’s sources on the ground have said. The conference to declare the federation of three Western Kurdistan enclaves will be in Rmelan. Continue Reading…
Written on March 16th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on The Independent.co.uk, by Robert Fisk, March 13, 2016 [ with a VIDEO - and in 72 pictures: the rise of Isis].
Five years ago, we were high on Arab revolutions, and journalists were growing used to ‘liberating’ Arab capitals.
Just before I left Syria last month, a tall and eloquent Franco-Lebanese man walked up to me in a Damascus coffee shop and introduced himself as President Bashar al-Assad’s architect. It was his task, he led me to understand, to design the reconstructed cities of Syria. Continue Reading…
Written on March 15th, 2016 in politics by heidi
… Lauding Worker Organizing – Published on In These Times, by Michelle Chen, March 9, 2016.
Bernie Sanders’ newest campaign video, which will air tomorrow night on the Spanish-language channel Univision, features the candidate ceding the spotlight to a representative group that doesn’t get a lot of play in most political ads: a migrant mother, speaking entirely in Spanish, who works in Florida’s farm fields. The story behind the workers featured in the ad is one of quiet and passionate organizing far outside the Beltway … // Continue Reading…
Written on March 14th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on RT, March 13, 2016.
… “The Syrian Kurds are an important component of the country, so we need to find a formula in which they are able to express an opinion on the constitution and the governance of the country,” de Mistura told Swiss Le Temps newspaper on Saturday.
He added that he has “a mandate to find the formulas … that are as inclusive as possible.” Continue Reading…
Written on March 13th, 2016 in politics by heidi
- Broken Financial Bazookas: Unsettled Markets, the Fed, ECB, Bank of Japan, Central Banks have Lost Their Credibility, on Global Research.ca, by Bill Holter, March 12, 2016;
- VIDEO: Hillary Clinton est vendue à la finance – John R. MacArthur, dans l’Obs, par Aude Lancelin, le 12 mars 2016: à l’occasion de son passage à Paris, Aude Lancelin reçoit John R. MacArthur, patron du prestigieux mensuel “Harper’s”, le plus ancien magazine américain;
- The Wealth of Nations, Smith’s Basis for Modern Political Economy, on New Historian, by Daril Worthington, March 12, 2016; Book: The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology), by Joseph A. Tainter, on amazon.co.uk; Webs: DownWithTyranny;
- The Goal of the Neo-Liberal Consensus Is to Manage the Decline – Gaius Publius, on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, March 11, 2016; America blog; /Gaius Publius; Continue Reading…
Written on March 12th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on ZNet, by Alon Ben-Meir, March 11, 2016.
Only a few months after Turkey’s President Erdogan raided the offices of the Koza Ipek Media Group, the Turkish police assaulted early this month the offices of Feza Publications, which owns two newspapers (including Zaman) and two TV stations, without any warning. There is little else more injurious to any democracy than closing down news outlets and choking off freedom of speech Continue Reading…
Written on March 11th, 2016 in politics by heidi
Published on Greek Reporter, by A. Makris, March 9, 2016.
Syrian and Iraqi war refugees are sleeping by railroad tracks in northern Greece hoping to be allowed to travel onward to Germany and other northern EU countries. Seventy-three years ago, these tracks were traversed by another group heading to Germany for a completely different future: the Nazi death camps … // Continue Reading…
Written on March 10th, 2016 in politics by heidi
the Secret of Donald Trump’s Success, published on Social Europe (first on George Lakoff’s blog), March 7, 2016.
Donald Trump is winning Republican presidential primaries at such a great rate that he seems likely to become the next Republican presidential nominee and perhaps the next president. Democrats have little understanding of why he is winning — and winning handily, and even many Republicans don’t see him as a Republican and are trying to stop him, but don’t know how. There are various theories: People are angry and he speaks to their anger. People don’t think much of Congress and want a non-politician. Both may be true. But why? What are the details? And Why Trump? Continue Reading…