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Published on Intrepid Report, by Frank Scott, February 21, 2012.

… After a recession bordering on a depression, the U.S. continues economic war on its people by cutting public spending while other nations reduce their populations to even more misery. Greece slashes its minimum wage and lays off more than a hundred thousand public employees so that private investors can collect interest on the national debt. That is the same situation all over the capitalist world, including Russia and China. Though they have only recently jumped into that economic frying pan, they seem to have noticed it has become so overheated that the entire kitchen may burst into flames at any moment.   Read the rest of this entry »

A book by Eberhard and Imke Hamer (in german: Mittelstand unter lauter Räubern – Die Plünderung der Selbständigen, bei amazon.de – siehe auch in Zeit-Fragen vom 17.1.2012).

Published on Current Concerns, by Ewald Wetekamp, February 5, 2012.

Beginning with the definition that the medium-sized company is a producing collective of people, with people and for people, Prof. Eberhard Hamer and Imke Hamer outline the importance of the medium-sized company for society and for the support of democracy in Germany. They do this with impressive examples and figures.  Read the rest of this entry »

Published on David Icke.com, by blog owner, February 17, 2012.

Breaking news … Robert Green, one of the most decent people you could ever wish to meet, has been jailed for 12 months as a consequence of his campaign to secure justice for Hollie Greig and a proper investigation (the first) into her claims to have been sexually and violently abused by members of the Scottish establishment.   Read the rest of this entry »

BMO help end infinity rubber strike – Published on rabble.ca, by rabbleTV, February 17, 2012.

The United Steelworkers (USW) and Occupy Toronto join forces to highlight the Bank of Montreal’s role in prolonging one of the longest strikes in Toronto history …

• Watch the video: USW Fighting Back Against Infinity Rubber, 2.29 minutes; (also on YouTube, including more videos in its right column);
• Photo Gallery: BMO Bankrolls Attacks on Workers, 13 February 2012.

Published on The Malta Independent Online, by David Casa, February 18, 2012.

… Exactly one year ago, thousands of Egyptians celebrated as the authoritarian ruler of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, stepped down and handed the government over to the military. The military council has been serving as an interim government ever since …  Read the rest of this entry »

Watch this 2 videos on YouTube:

• Dr. Claud Anderson, A Vision Beyond a Dream – Powernomics.avi, 120.44 minutes, uploaded by calell01, on Nov. 13, 2011: Black Labor White Wealth, How to practice Group Politics. How to redesign schools to produce competitive Black Children. How to expand the Role of the Black Church to make it the Group competitive and self sufficient;
• Dr. Claud Anderson, Inapproiate Behavhior a Road Block to Empowerment, uploaded by calell01, on YouTube, 119.01 minutes, uploaded on November 13, 2011.

Published on Spiegel Online International, by SPIEGEL Staff, February 16, 2012.

The leaders of Germany’s far-right NPD seek to project the party as mainstream and reasonable. In truth, however, the party is a melting pot for racists, Hitler worshippers and enemies of democracy. There are plenty of reasons to ban the party. But would it make the NPD more dangerous than ever?   Read the rest of this entry »

Published on ZNet, by Savas Michael-Matsas, February 14, 2012.

The worst fears of the ruling classes of Greece and Europe are becoming true: an uncontrollable social explosion is under way in Greece. *

When these lines are written, late in the night on February 12-13, 2012, the violent clashes and street fights between demonstrators and the riot police, in the center of Athens and in other cities all over the country, still continue. Read the rest of this entry »

Published on ZNet, by Paul Streeet, February 12, 2012.

• A handwritten note stuck on the message board of an old Occupy site I know reads as follows: “If you want to make God laugh, make a plan.”
• The message is clear: plans are for chumps.
• How sad. That message is part of how the 1% rules.

From “Strategicism” to “Expressivism”:   Read the rest of this entry »

Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Gamal Essam El-Din, 9 – 15 February 2012.

The tragic events in Port Said that left 74 people dead and hundreds others injured last week and the bloody clashes between protesters and police around the Interior Ministry building in downtown Cairo this week have left the newly-elected People’s Assembly in a difficult situation. While MPs almost agreed on a package of measures to fight riots during football matches, they were divided over what means should be used to prevent attacks on the Interior Ministry.   Read the rest of this entry »

Published on AlterNet, by Jefferson Morley, February 5, 2012.

… What had started 12 hours earlier as a politically-tinged eviction of an unsanitary but entirely peaceful encampment had suddenly turned into an aggressive display of force by the National Park Police officers (including 24 officers bussed in from New York City).   Read the rest of this entry »

Arab League Report Shows that Syria Has Been Mischaracterized – Published on Washingtons Blog, by Blog owner, February 7, 2012.

While the Western media act like the Syrian government is wantonly and indiscriminately killing its own people without provocation, an independent investigation has found a different reality on the ground.  Read the rest of this entry »

Published on ZNet, Noam Chomsky interviewed by Dean Carroll, February 03, 2012.

… How many of these problems relating to natural resources shortages do you expect man’s ingenuity and modern technology to solve – in other words, is a modern Utopia possible?

• “Nobody can predict that, but there certainly are theoretical possibilities. For example, if alternative sustainable energy can reach a sufficient scale – it is, in principle, possible to overcome the water shortage by desalination. But we are very far from achieving that. In the meantime, we have extremely serious problems. Read the rest of this entry »

Published on International Forecaster, by Bob Chapman, February 1, 2012;

Davos pact diminishes sovereignty of european nations, deflation and inflation, employment not improving for election, more money managers bullish on gold, money chaos cover up is political, gold rush in China as the year of the dragon starts, Fed bolsters commodities despite economic decline … //   Read the rest of this entry »

Julian Assange heads to UK court in bid to block his extradition to Sweden, where he faces allegations of sex crimes – Published on Al Jazeera, , February 1, 2012. – [The video which Bradley Manning released to wikileaks, the reason for his imprisonnement: short version 1.41 min, long version 39.14 min)].

… He was detained in Britain in December 2010 on a European arrest warrant issued by a Swedish prosecutor after two female former WikiLeaks volunteers accused him of sexual assault. His lawyers have argued that the warrant is invalid because it was issued by a prosecutor rather than a neutral judge or court.  Read the rest of this entry »

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Sven Böll, Alexander Neubacher, Ralf Neukirch, Christian Reiermann, Christoph Schult and Anne Seith, January 30, 2012. (comming next – Part 2: The Dismal Greek Economy).

… Europe’s politicians continue to battle reality. Everyone knows that Greece cannot repay its massive pile of debts, now at more than €350 billion ($459 billion). But instead of effectively reducing the financial burden, European politicians intend to approve new loans for the government in Athens and go on fighting debt with new debt. “If the country wants to remain in the euro zone, we should support it,” says Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann.   Read the rest of this entry »

Published on rabble.ca, by Murray Dobbin, January 30, 2012.

Two recent stories out of Ottawa underline the ongoing political and economic assault on ordinary Canadians. More Canadians are now working for low wages than at any time in decades, continuing a trend that began in the early 1990s, and Stephen Harper has announced major changes to retirement benefits – including delaying Old Age Security(OAS) eligibility to age 67. What kind of society beggars those of its citizens who worked all their lives and now want to retire in dignity while privileging the rich and super-rich by slashing their income taxes and allowing them to transfer their wealth to their children untouched? … //   Read the rest of this entry »

(… but first watch the video which Bradley Manning released to wikileaks, the reason for his imprisonnement: short version 1.41 min, long version 39.14 min).

… and now the article published on Global Research.ca, by Philip Fornaci and Susan Alfano, January 28, 2012.

Last month, at the massive Fort Meade army installation, Private First Class Bradley Manning, who grew in Crescent, OK, finally had his “day in court” – actually, seven days of a military “Article 32 hearing.”  Read the rest of this entry »

An Interview with Doug Henwood, published on ZNet, by Sasha Lilley, January 25, 2012.

Sasha Lilley: Protests against Wall Street have inspired many people to move their money from big banks to smaller banks and credit unions and encourage others to do the same. Why might you be skeptical of this effort?  Read the rest of this entry »

Published on BBCnews, January 26, 2012.

Iran is ready to revive talks over its nuclear programme but tougher sanctions will not force it to give into Western demands, its president has said. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said it was evident that “those who resort to coercion are opposed to talks”.  Read the rest of this entry »

Published on The Washington Post /National, by Melissa Bell, January 24, 2012.

… The television show could be the best format for the former world traveler to get his message out — so long as it’s filmed at his current home. He’s currently under house arrest in Britian where he awaits a court decision on whether or not he should be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of sexual assault.  Read the rest of this entry »

Linked on our blogs with John Pilger, Australia and England. – Published on ZSpace, by John Pilger, January 19, 2012.

… In the early 1960s, the Labour government of Harold Wilson secretly agreed to a demand from Washington that the Chagos archipelago, a British colony, be “swept” and “sanitised” of its 2,500 inhabitants so that a military base could be built on the principal island, Diego Garcia. “They knew we were inseparable from our pets,” said Lizette, “When the American soldiers arrived to build the base, they backed their big trucks against the brick shed where we prepared the coconuts; hundreds of our dogs had been rounded up and imprisoned there. Then they gassed them through tubes from the trucks’ exhausts. You could hear them crying.” Read the rest of this entry »

A look at how a former beacon of booming development and social prosperity has been plunged into economic desperation – Watch the video with filmmaker Sinead O’Shea, 25.00 minutes, published on Al Jazeera, January 19, 2012.

Ireland has been one of the largest casualties in the global financial crisis, which began during the banking collapse of 2008 and has continued to impact markets and destabilise the developed world ever since.   Read the rest of this entry »

Words are witnesses which often speak louder than documents, wrote Eric Hobsbawm in The Age of Revolutions – Published on RGE Analysts Blog (first on global Policy gp), by William Omam, January 17, 2012.

… The collective action void:

But beyond the intensification of global trade and capital flows, perhaps the single most important commonality between the industrial and post-industrial revolutions is that both periods exposed in a stark way the deep-seated internal contradictions in advanced countries’ societal modes of organization.   Read the rest of this entry »

Linked on our blogs with Eric Walberg, Canada. – Published on Global Research.ca, by Eric Walberg, January 18, 2012.

Yes, it really is another Vietnam, and just as in 1972, presidential elections will make no difference … //

… The counterinsurgency hurt the Taliban if only because the occupiers killed thousands of them. It no doubt caused splintering of Taliban forces, and contributed to the seemingly random violence.  Read the rest of this entry »

Published on Inequality.org, January 15, 2012.

In 2030, the majority of U.S. residents under 18 will be people of color. If current household wealth trends continue, the majority of America’s young people will be growing up in economically insecure households.    Read the rest of this entry »

Two members of parliament flee and declare support for opposition as activists report more deaths across country – Published on english Al Jazeera, January 16, 2012.

Nawaf al-Bashir, a tribal leader and MP from Deir Ezzor, told Dubai-based Al-Arabiya TV on Monday that he had “come to Turkey to activate the opposition”. He said he was a member of the Syrian National Council (SNC), the most prominent opposition bloc.   Read the rest of this entry »

Von: Attac Schweiz /Infobulletin, Datum: 17. Januar 2012.

Am 24. und 25. Januar 2012 stehen der Nahrungsmittelkonzern NESTLE und die Schweizer Sicherheitsfirma SECURITAS am Bezirksgericht Lausanne wegen Bespitzelung der globalisierungskritischen Bewegung Attac. Damit wird der Schleier der Verschwiegenheit gelüftet, der sich seit Juni 2008 über den Skandal „Nestlégate“ gelegt hat.    Read the rest of this entry »

National Call to Action Made by the Portland General Assembly, January 1st, 2012 – Published on Occupy Together, by Ella, January 7, 2012.

Occupy Portland calls for a national day of non-violent direct action to reclaim our voices and challenge our society’s obsession with profit and greed by shutting down the corporations.  We are rejecting a society that does not allow us control of our future. We will reclaim our ability to shape our world in a democratic, cooperative, just and sustainable direction.   Read the rest of this entry »

Video auf SF1 /DOK, 50.37 min, Sendung vom 11. Januar 2012 /22.56 Uhr: (in german, swiss german and espanol language).

Helden und Verbrechen im Kaffeeland Guatemala. Guatemala ist ein wunderschönes Land – und eines der gewalttätigsten der Welt. In diesen prekären Verhältnissen gelang dem Schweizer Ueli Gurtner, die indianischen Kleinbauern zu einer eigenständigen Kraft im Kaffeegeschäft zu machen – gegen massive Anfeindungen der Mächtigen, die ihre Monopole nicht verlieren wollen.