politics for the 99%

Published on Dissident Voice, by Binoy Kampmark, May 6, 2016.

The monstrous Siamese twin of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement TPP, known as (and also) the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership TTIP, has been in a growing puddle of dispute after 248 pages of its content were leaked.   Continue Reading…

• Wild Thailand HD, 44.59 min, uploaded by NatureDocumentary;
• Wild Russia The Secret Forest HD, 46.56 min, uploaded by Nat Geo Wild;
• Wild Balkans 2016, 44.14 min, uploaded by BBC Natural World.

Published on NPR.org, by Steve Inskeep, May 5, 2016.

STEVE INSKEEP: How is West Virginia different, if at all, from anywhere else you campaigned?

• SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: Well, West Virginia has some pockets of the worst poverty in the United States of America.   Continue Reading…

… (and) pressures Anastasiades to accept NATO plan for Turkish troops in Cyprus – Published on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, May 4, 2016.

Yves here. We were one of the few sites to follow the brutal handling of the Cyprus banking system when one of its major banks got wobbly in 2013. Cyprus was demonized as a money laundering center, when its main sin was that it served as a conduit for inbound investment into Russia, including investment by large, well-recognized companies. Continue Reading…

… the Calm before the Coming Global Storm – Published on ZNet (first on Sputnik News), by Pepe Escobar, May 4, 2016.

Major turbulence seems to be the name of the game in 2016. Yet the current turbulence may be interpreted as the calm before the next, devastating geopolitical/financial storm. Let’s review the current state of play via the dilemmas afflicting the House of Saud, the EU and BRICS members Russia, Brazil and China.   Continue Reading…

• BBC How Plants Communicate & Think – Amazing Nature Documentary, 52.35 min, uploaded by DOCUMENTARY TV;
• The Rise of Black Wolf, 46.33 min, uploaded by Discovery Channel … Discovery channel animals documentaries;
• Secret Pacific Ocean Paradise Nature, 66.05 min, uploaded by rohan xxl, … a National Geographic Doc;
• The Water World of Pantanal, 45.12 min, uploaded by Mississippi … Mysterious Natural Paradise 3 of 5.

Published on Intrepid Report, by Walter Brasch, May 2, 2016.

… The reason Joe Sestak is a slow learner is because he hasn’t learned to accept the floating rules of the political machine. He believes people in power should be able to justify their decisions, and he has a healthy attitude that dictates he should question authority when necessary. As a three-star flag officer, he listened to his staff and supported the thousands of enlisted personnel under his command, but he challenged those entombed within their own tunnel vision.   Continue Reading…

• #1ERMAI: 17.000 manifestants à Paris selon la préfecture de police, 70.000 selon la CGT, en hausse par rapport à 2015, dans l’Obs, le 1er mai 2016;
• The Big News in the Union Rift Over the Working Families Party, on ZNet (first on Portside.org), by Jim Pope, May 1, 2016;

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Published on Yahoo/Finance, by Andy Serwer, April 29, 2016.

… “After the events of 2008, really since then, the central banks either collectively or individually have tried to implement policies which would, in effect, buy time for individual governments to take the actions they should take to put their houses in order,” Thornton says. Continue Reading…