Sahra Wagenknecht mit ein paar Wortmeldungen:
some videos from the WEF:
Faction loyal to former PM releases commander of military amid continued volatility in the South Pacific nation – Published on Al Jazeera, January 27, 2012.
The commander of the Papua New Guinea military has been released by the 20 soldiers who staged a mutiny on Thursday, but they have refused to relinquish their arms until they are granted full pardons. Peter O’Neill, the South Pacific nation’s incumbent prime minister, has announced that Brigadier-General Francis Agawi, head of the Papua New Guinea armed forces, was released several hours after the bloodless mutiny began … // Continue Reading…
Published on Casey Research, by Marin Katusa, January 25, 2012.
The official line from the United States and the European Union is that Tehran must be punished for continuing its efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. The punishment: sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, which are meant to isolate Iran and depress the value of its currency to such a point that the country crumbles. Continue Reading…
Linked on our blogs with Jean Ziegler, Switzerland, and with and with Siv O’Neall, Sweden. – Published on Intrepid Report, by Siv O’Neall, January 25, 2012. (Translation of excerpts from Jean Ziegler’s latest book Destruction massive — Géopolitique de la faim by Siv O’Neall). See them also with Jean Ziegler’s wikipedia article, and his Google Web-search and with Siv O’Neall’s Google Web-search.
In his latest book Mass Destruction – the Geopolitics of Hunger, Jean Ziegler[1] talks about the current state of the world and the neoliberal politics of starvation of the poor, which has led to a crisis situation amounting to calculated murder. What we are witnessing today is the worst hunger crisis in human history. And it is all because of human greed (and the) colossal mismanagement for profit. Continue Reading…
Published on naked capitalism, by , January 24, 2012.
I’m behind on commenting on various opinion pieces, thanks to a mild case of food poisoning (ugh), but I wanted to take note of Paul Krugman’s current New York Times op ed, Is Our Economy Healing? Continue Reading…
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Published on Dissident Voice, by Bill Quigley, January 20, 2012.
Millions of people in the US work and are still poor. Here are eight points that show why the US needs to dedicate itself to making work pay.
One. How many people work and are still poor? Continue Reading…
Published on william bowles.info, by blog owner William Bowles, January 19, 2012.
There are more young people of working age out of work than at any time in recorded British history according to the latest government figures … //
… Social support will be cut to the absolute minimum the state can get away with. Resistance will be met with the full force of the corporate/security state with the Summer ’11 riots serving as an example of what happens when you deliberately allow ‘them’ to get on with the lootin’ anna burnin’. Continue Reading…
Help us bring the fight across the world – Received by e-mail, From: the Team from Access, (via bluestate digital), Date: Jan. 20, 2012.
Your voices have been heard! After days of international pressure online and offline against internet censorship legislation, including so many of you from Access, leaders in the US Congress announced they are postponing votes on the PROTECT IP Act and Stop Online Piracy Act. This is a fatal blow to this legislation! Continue Reading…
Received by e-mail, From: Jochai from Access, (via bluestate digital), Date: Jan. 19, 2012.
… I wanted to give you a quick report on what happened over the past few days in DC and New York, as well as tell you about an urgent global call to action before this Tuesday’s all important vote on the future of the internet. Continue Reading…
Linked on ourblogs with Danny Schechter, USA. – Published on ZNet (first on OCCUPY Wall Street News), by Danny Schechter, January 18, 2012.
We live in an increasingly degraded country. Our politics are degraded and a laughing stock to the word. Our military is demoralized and degraded with soldiers urinating on dead civilians and awaiting deployment orders for the next illegal intervention. Our education system has been degraded with standards falling and pervasive defunding. Our transportation system, ditto. Continue Reading…
Published on Too Much.org, by blog owner Sam Pizzigati, January 14, 2012.
The rich don’t much like paying taxes when tax rates run high. They don’t much like paying taxes when tax rates run low either. Any tax system that subjects rich people to high taxes is asking for trouble. Or so the politicians who cater to people of means incessantly argue. Continue Reading…
Published on Spiegel Online Ingternational, by staff, January 16, 2012.
Ever since the European Central Bank began flooding the markets with cheap money, European banks have rediscovered their taste for sovereign bonds. But the crisis is far from over, as Standard and Poor’s recent raft of downgrades showed. Some bankers are saying it’s just a matter of time before yields on peripheral bonds shoot up again … // Continue Reading…
Published on libcom.org, by Tom Wetzel, January 2012.
Article about the practice and limitations of union (closed) shops in the US workers’ movement in the 1930s and 40s. In particular it examines how they helped unions act as a tool of discipline over workers as opposed to a tool for defending their interests. Continue Reading…
Published on Project Syndicate, by Joseph E. Stiglitz, January 12, 2012.
KOLKATA – The year 2011 will be remembered as the time when many ever-optimistic Americans began to give up hope. President John F. Kennedy once said that a rising tide lifts all boats. But now, in the receding tide, Americans are beginning to see not only that those with taller masts had been lifted far higher, but also that many of the smaller boats had been dashed to pieces in their wake. Continue Reading…
Published on RootsAction.org, January 2012.
News from France: Conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy announced this weekend that he would take the lead in introducing a Financial Transaction Tax in his country. Referring to the tax as a “moral issue” and blaming deregulation and speculation for the global economic crisis, Sarkozy has said financial traders must “repay for the damage they have caused”. Sign here to call on President Obama to show the same leadership in the U.S. by pushing for a tax on Wall Street transactions … Continue Reading…
The Geo-Politics in the Strait of Hormuz – Published on Voltairenet.org, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, January 6, 2012. (also in italian).
Providing precious insight into the dynamics around the Iran-US standoff playing out in the strategically crucial Strait of Hormuz, Nazemroaya describes a situation that inevitably brings to mind the story of David and Goliath. With geography and international law standing resolutely on the side of Iran, we may be in store for a similarly amazing ending. Continue Reading…
Published on openDemocracy /Economy, by Tony Curzon Price, 9 January 2012.
It’s true that high pay for bosses serves no purpose except keeping them (and their headquarters) in the country. The only real solution is economic policy coordination. In its absence, Machiavelli would have been proud of the proposals and statements on display this new year in the UK … // Continue Reading…
Published on Spiegel Online International, by kla, January 11, 2012.
The German economy grew strongly last year, despite the European debt crisis. Gross domestic product jumped by 3 percent, while the national deficit sank, the Federal Statistical Office reported on Wednesday. But experts warn that, given the slight contraction in the final quarter of last year, Germany could enter a recession in 2012 … // Continue Reading…
a Canadian Dimension Roundtable – Published on Canadian Dimension, by Jim Stanford, January 5, 2012.
The 2007-08 financial crisis marked a major turning point in the world economy. From your perspective, why was the recovery so weak and why did economic stagnation continue to characterize the core capitalist countries? Continue Reading…
Published on Global Research.ca (first on Web of Dept), by Ellen Brown, January 9, 2012.
Neither rain nor sleet nor snow may have stopped the Pony Express, but the nation’s oldest and second largest employer is now under attack. Claiming the Postal Service is bankrupt, critics are pushing legislation that would defuse the postal crisis by breaking the backs of the postal workers’ unions and mandating widespread layoffs. But the “crisis” is an artificial one, created by Congress itself … // Continue Reading…
(le sujet en français / das Thema auf deutsch)
Basic Income Grant – Equal Money FAQ, by SignsOfTimesNews, October 25, 2012: Initially we will be lobbying for the introduction universally/globally for a basic income grant that will support every human being with an income in terms of housing, education, shelter, electricity, water and the ability to move around … Continue Reading…
Published on Washington’s Blog, by blog owner, January 7, 2012.
Tensions Between U.S., Israeli, British and Iranian Warships:
What Could Go Wrong? … // Continue Reading…
World’s biggest oil company receives ten per cent of what it demanded in a dispute over the planet’s largest deposit – Published on english Al Jazeera, by Chris Arsenault in Doha, January 6, 2012.
… After four years of arbitration at the ICC, Exxon still has another case pending against Venezuela at the World Bank-affiliated International Centre for Settlement and Investment Disputes. Continue Reading…
Linked on our blogs with Stephen Lendman, USA. – Published on Global Research.ca, by Stephen Lendman, January 4, 2012.
Wall Street does it by controlling money, credit and debt, as well as manipulating markets for private enrichment. House and Senate millionaires do it their way for greater wealth, privilege, power and status. New Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) figures show it. More on them below. New York Times writer Eric Lichtblau commented in his article headlined, “Economic Downturn Took a Detour at Capitol Hill,” saying: Continue Reading…
Watch these 5 videos, published on Natural news TV, by SimisMisis, uploaded December 31, 2011 – Humanity. Survival in The 21st Century:
As US troops leave Iraq, parallels to post-WWI decolonisation are important to understand so the region can be free. – Published on english Al Jazeera, by Mohammad Tarbush, January 5, 2012.
Geneva, Switzerland – As American troops are finally pulling out of Iraq and heading back home, those who genuinely wish both the United States and the Arab world well must be heaving a deep sigh of relief. Continue Reading…
Publié dans Le Figaro, par Isabelle de Foucaud, le 30 décembre 2011.
La première «accorderie» française a ouvert ses portes à Paris. Importé du Québec, ce concept permet aux habitants d’un quartier d’échanger des services en fonction de leurs compétences. Continue Reading…
How Media is used to Whip the Nation into Wartime Frenzy Faking It, How the Media Manipulates the World into War - Published on Global Research.ca, by James Corbett, January 3, 2012.
… Remarkably, the public at large has seemingly learned nothing from all of these documented historical manipulations. If anything, the media has become even bolder in its attempts to manipulate the public’s perceptions, perhaps emboldened by the fact that so few in the audience seem willing to question the picture that is being painted for them on the evening news. Continue Reading…
Published on Current Concerns, no. 29, by ts, December 18, 2011.
ts. In his study “La Suisse avant et pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale”, Christian Favre provides an insight into the complex backgrounds of the Second World War, how they really were. Continue Reading…
And We Wonder Why They Resist from Afghanistan to Attawapiskat – Published on Michael Skinner Research, by Michael Skinner Research, December 12, 2011.
On 24 November 2011, the Government of Afghanistan awarded a Canadian mining company, Kilo Goldmines, approximately 25 percent of the stake to develop the massive Hajigak iron deposit in Bamiyan Afghanistan. A consortium of Indian companies won the other 75 percent of the development. Continue Reading…
… watch this video: Peter Schiff interviews Ann Barnhardt, 18.01 min, published on Morning Liberty, December 21, 2011.
Links: Continue Reading…
Published on Current Concerns no 29 (Source: RIA Novosti), by Rossijskaja gaseta, December 18, 2011.
… “The approaching of Moscow and Germany on the one hand and France on the other hand is already in progress, primarily due to the initiative of Berlin, which is seeking a reinforcement of their economic relations. [...] This process may even be accelerated if the euro-crisis will lead to a depression. Germany as well as France are recognizing, that it is impossible to manage the present crisis on their own.” Continue Reading…
an interview with Dr. Luchetu Likaka – Published on Nourishing the Planet, by Emily Gilbert, December 30, 2011.
… What are some of the difficulties being faced by the elderly and ageing populations in Kenya?
2011-12-01: Why Banks Deserve Preferential Treatment While Millions of Homeowners Are Denied Assistance And Are At Risk of Foreclosure?
2011-12-02: The big picture revealed;
2011-12-03: Autocratic western elites failed – An Europe of Nations and Citizens is needed;
2011-12-04: Labour’s Business and the Unions;
2011-12-05: End game for the euro;
2011-12-05: Close government loopholes to help bring an end to forced child labor;
2011-12-06: George Orwell on the Evil Iranian Menace;
2011-12-06: Incubating A Worker Cooperative On A Shoestring With Time Banks;
2011-12-07: Creating New Economists;
2011-12-08: No People No Problem: The Baltic Tiger’s False Prophets of Economic Austerity;
2011-12-09: AAA ratings are a beauty contest – someone has to win;
2011-12-09: Die Große Depression in Deutschland (der 30er Jahre);
2011-12-10: CrossTalk on Merkozy: Averting Euro Doomsday?
2011-12-11: Occupy Wall Street: Black Voices for Economic Justice Must Be Heard;
2011-12-12: The Financial Crisis Was Entirely Foreseeable;
2011-12-13: The Unilever strike, pensions and structural adjustment;
2011-12-14: Economics in Society: The Ethical Dimension;
2011-12-15: Euro Crisis: Britain’s Financial Arsonist Returns to the Scene of the Crime;
2011-12-16: Financial Cost: Eight years in Iraq;
2011-12-17: In the black Labour and the concept of fiscal potentiality;
2011-12-18: The year of revolt;
2011-12-19: How Maliki and Iran Outsmarted the U.S. on Troop Withdrawal;
2011-12-20: Time to trust the people;
2011-12-21: End of Nations: Canada, the US and the Security Perimeter;
2011-12-22: Courage in high places in short supply;
2011-12-22: Norme pénale spéciale contre les mutilations sexuelles féminines;
2011-12-23: Destroying the American Dream;
2011-12-24: US tax ultimatum has Swiss banks sweating;
2011-12-25: A bankrupt EU wants to extort Switzerland;
2011-12-26: Crush Labor and Impose Austerity: ECB Head Draghi’s Real Goal for the Eurozone;
2011-12-27: Measuring African capital flight;
2011-12-28: Unrelenting Global Economic Crisis: A Doomsday View of 2012;
2011-12-29: Moderate Islam Alliance: Containing Rebellion Defending Empire;
2011-12-30: UNCUT: Peter Watt’s 2012 crystal ball;
2011-12-31: The Federal Reserve is Secretely Bailing out Europe.
… Watch this video, 5.01 min, published on Washington’s Blog, by blog owner, December 29, 2011.
O’Driscoll wrote in a Wall Street Journal editorial: America’s central bank, the Federal Reserve, is engaged in a bailout of European banks. Surprisingly, its operation is largely unnoticed here. Continue Reading…
Published on Labour Uncut, by Peter Watt, December 29, 2011.
… First the economy. You don’t need to be much of a soothsayer to know that next year will all be about the horrific state of the international economy. Much of the world, although by no means all, is teetering on the edge of recession. I am no longer sure that anyone knows either what is happening or how to sort it. Years of trade deficits in much of the West coupled with cheap credit of which many individuals and countries took advantage have produced huge instability. Continue Reading…
Linked on our blogs with James Petras, USA, and with Corruption. – Published on The James Petras Website, December 12, 2011.
… In conclusion we will evaluate the viability of this alliance and its capacity to contain and deflect the popular democratic movements and repress the burgeoning class and national struggles, especially in regard to the ‘obstacles’ posed by the Israel-US-Zionist ties and the continued IMF policies which promise to worsen the crises in the Muslim countries.
The Transition from Neo-Liberal Client Rulers to Power-Sharing with Moderate Islamists: Continue Reading…
The economic, political and social outlook for 2012 is profoundly negative – Linked on our blogs with James Petras, USA. - Published on Global Research.ca, by Prof. James Petras, December 25, 2011.
… The Collapse of the European Union: