Quand l’austérité tue, par Sanjay Basu et David Stuckler (Le Monde diplomatique, octobre 2014)

Quand l’austérité tue, par Sanjay Basu et David Stuckler (Le Monde diplomatique, octobre 2014)

Les conséquences sanitaires des politiques économiques

Quand l’austérité tue

Rigueur ou relance ?
Si, depuis le début de la crise financière de 2007, les gouvernements
européens ont choisi, les experts poursuivent leurs délibérations… avec
d’autant plus de prudence qu’ils font rarement partie des premières
victimes des coupes budgétaires. Soumettre les politiques économiques
aux critères d’évaluation de la recherche médicale permettrait toutefois
de trancher la question.



 

Une nation née dans la brutalité, par Eldridge Cleaver (Le Monde diplomatique, janvier 1973)

Une nation née dans la brutalité, par Eldridge Cleaver (Le Monde diplomatique, janvier 1973)



 Déclaration d'indépendance des États-Unis, approuvée le 4 juillet 1776 :
« Nous regardons comme des vérités évidentes par elles-mêmes, que tous
les hommes ont été créés égaux, qu’ils ont reçu de leur Créateur
certains droits inaliénables ; qu’au nombre de ces droits sont la vie,
la liberté et la recherche du bonheur ; que c’est pour assurer ces
droits que les gouvernements ont été institués parmi les hommes, et
qu’ils ne tirent leur juste pouvoir que du consentement de ceux qui sont
gouvernés ; que toutes les fois qu’une forme de gouvernement devient
destructive de ces fins, le peuple est en droit de le modifier ou de
l’abolir et d’instituer un nouveau gouvernement, en établissant ses
fondements sur les principes, et en organisant ses pouvoirs dans les
formes qui lui paraîtront les plus propres à réaliser sa sûreté et son
bonheur. »



 Declaration of Independence of the United States, approved July 4, 1776:
"We regard as self-evident truths in themselves, that all men are
created equal, that they received from their Creator with certain
inalienable rights; that among these rights are life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness; it is to ensure these rights that governments were
instituted among men, and they derive their just power from the consent
of the governed; that whenever any Form of Government becomes
destructive of these ends, the people are right to alter or abolish it,
and to institute new government, laying its foundations on principles,
and organizing its powers in the manner that he deems most appropriate
for its security and happiness. "

Vers un césarisme européen, par Cédric Durand et Razmig Keucheyan (Le Monde diplomatique, novembre 2012)

Vers un césarisme européen, par Cédric Durand et Razmig Keucheyan (Le Monde diplomatique, novembre 2012)





Selon Antonio Gramsci,
au cours des grandes crises du capitalisme, les institutions qui
dépendent du suffrage universel, comme les Parlements, passent au second
plan. A l’inverse, les circonstances consolident « la position relative
du pouvoir de la bureaucratie (civile et militaire), de la haute
finance, de l’Eglise, et en général de tous les organismes relativement
indépendants des fluctuations de l’opinion publique ». En temps normal,
toutes ces instances ne rechignent pas à laisser les institutions
démocratiques aux commandes. Ce n’est plus le cas en situation de crise :
d’une part, les contradictions inhérentes aux institutions légitimes
sur le plan électoral s’approfondissent, affaiblissant leur capacité à
prendre les décisions que requiert l’accélération du rythme de la
politique ; d’autre part, l’opinion publique fluctue considérablement,
menaçant de se tourner vers les solutions les plus radicales.


L'intellectuel italien nomme « césarisme » cette propension des régimes
démocratiques à manifester des penchants autoritaires en temps de crise.
(…) Les dynamiques actuellement à l’œuvre au sein de l’Union européenne
évoquent une forme de césarisme non pas militaire, mais financier et
bureaucratique. Entité politique à la souveraineté fragmentée, l’Europe
ne voit son unité garantie que par la bureaucratie bruxelloise et
l’immixtion structurelle de la finance internationale dans son
fonctionnement.



 According to Antonio Gramsci, in the great crises of capitalism,
institutions that rely on universal suffrage, as Parliaments, are
secondary. Conversely, the circumstances consolidate "the relative
position of the power of the bureaucracy (civil and military), of high
finance, of the Church, and in general all relatively independent bodies
fluctuations of public opinion" . Normally, all these bodies do not
mind letting the democratic institutions in charge. This is not the case
in crisis: first, the contradictions inherent in the legitimate
institutions electorally deepened, weakening their ability to make
decisions that require the accelerated pace of policy; on the other
hand, public opinion fluctuates considerably, threatening to turn to the
more radical solutions.
The Italian intellectual calls "Caesarism"
this propensity of democracies to authoritarian tendencies manifest in
times of crisis. (...) The current dynamics at work within the European
Union evoke a form of Caesarism not military but financial and
bureaucratic. Political entity in the fragmented sovereignty, Europe
sees its unity guaranteed by the Brussels bureaucracy and structural
interference of international finance in its operation.

Faces of the American Revolution | TIME

Faces of the American Revolution | TIME



 Faces of the American Revolution

On Independence Day, LightBox presents portraits of Revolutionary War veterans photographed 70 years after the end of the conflict.



 

China's abandoned children - Al Jazeera English

China's abandoned children - Al Jazeera English

China's abandoned children

Why are millions of youngsters left behind by parents in poverty seeking work in the cities?

 

 

Hillary Clinton’s Failed Libya ‘Doctrine’ | Consortiumnews

Hillary Clinton’s Failed Libya ‘Doctrine’ | Consortiumnews

Hillary Clinton’s Failed Libya ‘Doctrine’






Exclusive: Libya remains a nation shattered by political chaos and
bloody terrorism, a result of the U.S.-backed “regime change” in 2011
that Secretary of State Clinton championed and once saw as her crowning
foreign policy achievement, even the basis for a “Clinton Doctrine,”
reports Robert Parry.



 

Ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi shortly before he was murdered on Oct. 20, 2011.

Israel’s Arab citizens fight for a roof over their heads | Middle East Eye

Israel’s Arab citizens fight for a roof over their heads | Middle East Eye

Jonathan Cook, journalist


24 juny a les 20:18 ·




My latest for Middle East Eye: Israel's Palestinian citizens, already
facing a severe housing crisis after decades of an official
"Judaisation" programme, fear Netanyahu's government is gearing up for a
new wave of home demolitions.

Relatives of Tareq Khatib survey the ruins of his home on the edge of
the Israeli town of Kafr Kana, destroyed by Israeli officials on June 15
(Jonathan Cook/MEE)

▶ Greek govt compares Euro-creditors to terrorists - YouTube

▶ Greek govt compares Euro-creditors to terrorists - YouTube

Greek govt compares Euro-creditors to terrorists 

 

 

WikiLeaks - Bugging Brazil

WikiLeaks - Bugging Brazil



Bugging Brazil

Press Release

WikiLeaks publishes today, 4 July at 08:00 BRT, a top secret US National Security Agency target list of 29 key Brazilian government phone numbers that were selected for intensive interception. The publication proves that not only President Dilma Rousseff was targeted but also her assistant, her secretary, her chief of staff, her Palace office and even the phone in her Presidential jet. The US targeted not only those closest to the President, but waged an economic espionage campaign against Brazil, spying on those responsible for managing Brazil's economy, including the head of its Central Bank. The US also extensively targeted Brazil's diplomacy, targeting the phones of its Foreign Minister and its ambassadors to Germany, France, the EU, the US and Geneva.

The economic targets within Brazil's government include its key Finance Ministers and even the Governor of the Brazilian Central Bank. Cabinet Minister Nelson Henrique Barbosa Filho, who served as Executive Secretary at Brazil's Ministry of Finance from 2011 to 2013 and who is now Minister of Planning, Budget and Management is on the target list, as is Antonio Palocci, Minister of Finance under former President Lula and former Dilma's Chief of Staff.

The revelation of US economic espionage against Brazil follows WikiLeaks publications earlier this week revealing US economic espionage against France, Germany and the EU.

The cell phone of Luiz Alberto Figueiredo Machado, former Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2015 and current Brazilian Ambassador to the US, appointed by President Rousseff, was targeted, as was the phone for Adriana Queirzo de Carvalho, Attorney General for the Finance Ministry.



 

NSA's Top Brazilian Political and Financial Targets Revealed by New WikiLeaks Disclosure - The Intercept

NSA's Top Brazilian Political and Financial Targets Revealed by New WikiLeaks Disclosure - The Intercept





 NSA’s Top Brazilian Political and Financial Targets Revealed by New WikiLeaks Disclosure

Top secret data from the National Security Agency, shared with The Intercept by WikiLeaks, reveals that the U.S. spy agency targeted the cellphones and other communications devices of more than a dozen top Brazilian political and financial officials, including the country’s president Dilma Rousseff, whose presidential plane’s telephone was on the list. President Rousseff just yesterday returned to Brazil after a trip to the U.S. that included a meeting with President Obama, a visit she had delayed for almost two years in anger over prior revelations of NSA spying on Brazil.



 

Direct Actions Across Canada Declare: 'Time to Move on' from Tar Sands | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

Direct Actions Across Canada Declare: 'Time to Move on' from Tar Sands | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community



 Actions taking place coast-to-coast in Canada today + tomorrow, calling for action on ‪#‎JobsJusticeClimate‬!



 

Hoera! Amsterdam eerste gemeente die TTIP verwerpt! — Milieudefensie

Hoera! Amsterdam eerste gemeente die TTIP verwerpt! — Milieudefensie



 And here are some great news to start the week-end: ‪#‎Amsterdam‬'s City Council passed a resolution declaring itself a ‪#‎TTIP‬-free city! Congratulations to its citizens! ‪#‎StopTTIP‬

Article: You, Too, Can Buy a Congressman! | OpEdNews

Article: You, Too, Can Buy a Congressman! | OpEdNews

You, Too, Can Buy a Congressman!

Ever wonder what the best investment you can make is?

I'm not in the business of giving financial advice -- but I wanted to share with you this secret that every billionaire and large corporation in this country knows.

The best investment you can make isn't gold or some revolutionary technology.

The best investment you can make is to buy a politician!

Investing in a politician can yield more returns than any stock or other commodity ever could.

 

 

10 Reasons Why You Have No Reason to Celebrate “Freedom” this Fourth of July | The Free Thought Project

10 Reasons Why You Have No Reason to Celebrate “Freedom” this Fourth of July | The Free Thought Project





As Americans don their red white and blue sequence bar-b-que aprons
and raise their flags, ironically made in China, in an effort to
“celebrate their freedom,” we should be asking ourselves, what freedoms
do American’s really have?


We are under constant surveillance, our every move under a microscope by government goons, “protecting us” from “terrorists.”


We are under the constant threat of violence from the state
for possessing a plant, or having a tail light out, or simply walking
down the street.


Americans are constantly paranoid of those blue and red lights
popping up in the rearview mirror that most always end in extortion and
could very well end with a visit to the hospital, being locked in a
cage, or worse.


In the Land of the Free, police killed more people in just one month of this year than the United Kingdom has in the entire 20th century.


In the Land of the Free, police kill at more than 70 times the rate of other first world nations.


In the Land of the Free, we are told to “fear the terrorists” but US police kill 58 times more people than all terrorist activity against US civlians since 9-11!



 

El nuevo pacto sobre el TTIP con el PP europeo divide a los socialistas | bilaterals.org

El nuevo pacto sobre el TTIP con el PP europeo divide a los socialistas | bilaterals.org



 The new pact on TTIP with European PP divides 








The PSOE socialist
bloc voted in favor of the agreement with the Conservatives, but 34
different socialist countries rejected this alliance, claiming that the
language of the new amendment is not clear, and that leaves the door
open to introduce a mechanism such as corporations pursuing
The new
pact on TTIP with European PP divides the Socialists. The PSOE voted as
a bloc in favor of the agreement with the Conservatives, but 34
different socialist countries rejected this alliance, claiming that the
language of the new amendment is not clear, and that leaves the door
open to introduce a mechanism like the one pursued by the corporations



 

Yanis Varufakis: "Lo que hacen con Grecia tiene un nombre: terrorismo" - 20minutos.es

Yanis Varufakis: "Lo que hacen con Grecia tiene un nombre: terrorismo" - 20minutos.es

Yanis Varufakis: "What they do with Greece has a name: terrorism"

 

 

 

The settlements are not part of Israel - Opinion - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

The settlements are not part of Israel - Opinion - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

The settlements are not part of Israel

The U.S.
administration's sharp message that protection of Israel from boycott
doesn't apply to the settlements should come as no surprise.

 

 

File photo: A Jewish settler
looks at the West bank settlement of Maaleh Adumim, from the E-1 area on
the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem.
Photo by AP

El TiSA entregará datos personales de millones de ciudadanos a las multinacionales | bilaterals.org

El TiSA entregará datos personales de millones de ciudadanos a las multinacionales | bilaterals.org



 Tisa deliver personal data of millions of citizens to multinational

The only exception to comply with paragraph on Electronic Commerce
accepting USA is the defense of "essential security interests" of the 51
countries that sign the pact secret services.
BRUSSELS Tisa
put on a silver platter companies control data from hundreds of millions
of citizens living in the 50 countries that sign. The multinationals
have carte blanche to store, process or transfer personal information
"provided that such action is in connection with the business management
of that service provider," which in practice means giving free rein to
the corporations and their subsidiaries. In fact, the only exception to
the fulfillment of this agreement to the US is the defense of "essential
security interests" of the countries that signed the Trade in Services
Agreement (TISA), the European Commission negotiates with the utmost
secrecy in the name of 28 states of the Union.



 

Islamists only want one thing. We cannot appease them - Telegraph

Islamists only want one thing. We cannot appease them - Telegraph

Islamists only want one thing. We cannot appease them

Like the old Leninists, Isil truly believes only it can defeat the conspiracy
that runs the world. There is no possible common ground 

 

 

 

The bearers of this flag will not surrender or negotiate Photo: AP

Iceland, the land of freedom and true democracy, grows booming economy after jailing bankster criminals - NaturalNews.com

Iceland, the land of freedom and true democracy, grows booming economy after jailing bankster criminals - NaturalNews.com



 Iceland, the land of freedom and true democracy, grows booming economy after jailing bankster criminals

(NaturalNews) Banks around the world are no longer the quaint little savings-and-loan depositories of yesterday. Today, most of them are owned or co-opted by giant mega-wealthy criminal conglomerates that charge customers for everything from cash deposits to ATM fees.

One Western country finally figured out that allowing these criminal enterprises to continue operating business as usual was hurting growth and destroying its economy, so its government decided to make some serious reforms.

Instead of bailing out the big criminal banking enterprises, Iceland instead chose to try, convict and jail criminal banksters. And as a result, the country has the fastest recovering economy in all of fiscally moribund Europe.

Robert Fisk: Israeli disinformation sullies a rare moment of wartime compassion - Comment - Voices - The Independent

Robert Fisk: Israeli disinformation sullies a rare moment of wartime compassion - Comment - Voices - The Independent



Robert Fisk: Israeli disinformation sullies a rare moment of wartime compassion

For years, the Israelis have used this wartime operation to justify their mass killing of civilians


When will the Israeli government stop misusing the RAF’s wartime raid
on the Gestapo’s Danish headquarters to justify their killing of
children? Their shameful and dishonest version of the 1945 air attack in
Copenhagen is repeated constantly by Israeli spokesmen whenever the
world responds in horror to the
country’s pulverisation of Arab civilians. It popped up again last week
when the Israeli spokesman, Mark Regev, tried to avoid Channel 4’s
questions about the UN’s latest report on the 2014 Gaza bloodbath and
the killing of four children on a beach a year ago.


The four had been playing next to a fisherman’s hut – witnessed by many
foreign journalists at the time. A tragic mistake, announced Regev. The
Israelis had not intended to kill the children. And he launched into an
old canard. The RAF had attacked Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, he
said, “and the bombs went astray and hit an orphanage and that was a
tragedy, a real tragedy”. It wasn’t an orphanage, but no matter. The
Israelis went on promiscuously shooting into built-up areas of Gaza,
eventually killing around 2,200 Palestinians – 1,492 of whom were
civilians.



 

The human rights crisis: a problem of perception? | openDemocracy

The human rights crisis: a problem of perception? | openDemocracy

When Israel is criticized about its rights-abusive policies
in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the refrain most often heard among
local politicians is that the government’s hasbara—the
Israeli propaganda machine—is inadequate. The problem, in other words,
is not what Israel actually does to the Palestinians, but rather the
inability to get its positive message across to the international
community. This is usually referred to as “rebranding Israel”. The underlying assumption here is that the merchandise is fine, and only the packaging needs to be replaced.

Rachel Krys’ recent argument
is based on a similar logic, even though she is writing about a
different issue. She tells us that most people in the UK do not support
human rights, while arguing that this is happening because human rights
are presented in a way that is disconnected from people’s everyday
lives. She claims that if the public would hear less “negative
discourse” about human rights and more “stories about old people
challenging bad treatment, invasive decisions or the intrusion into
their private and family life”, support for human rights would be much
wider. Once again the problem with human rights has to do with
perceptions, and the solution, here as well, is hasbara.

The
relationship between representation and reality is, however, much more
complex. It has to do with human rights themselves: the way they have
been institutionalized, the political projects to which they lend
themselves, their intricate connections to the state, and the
alternative discourses of justice they omit and repress.



 

100,000 beekeepers urge Germany to ban GMOs as biotech industry destroys their livelihood and environment - NaturalNews.com

100,000 beekeepers urge Germany to ban GMOs as biotech industry destroys their livelihood and environment - NaturalNews.com



 100,000 beekeepers urge Germany to ban GMOs as biotech industry destroys their livelihood and environment

(NaturalNews) Nearly 100,000 German beekeepers are calling for a nationwide ban on the cultivation of GMO crops. The beekeepers are represented by the German Beekeepers Association (DIB), which is pursuing the ban after the introduction of legislation allowing member states to opt out of GM planting schemes that have been approved at the EU level.

The new law allows a member state to ban GMO agriculture in all or part of its territory. The legislation is strongly opposed by GM proponents and has become a controversial issue throughout the EU.

The DIB is urging Agriculture Minister Christian Schmidt (CSU) to enact a ban throughout the entire country, but the minister is calling for each state or region within Germany to decide on an individual basis.



 

Greek citizens dumpster dive for food... do you have a Food Rising Grow Box yet? - NaturalNews.com

Greek citizens dumpster dive for food... do you have a Food Rising Grow Box yet? - NaturalNews.com



 Greek citizens dumpster dive for food... do you have a Food Rising Grow Box yet?

(NaturalNews) As Greece slides ever deeper into its debt crisis with no real hope of a solution on the horizon, many average citizens have been reduced to scavenging in dumpsters just to stay alive.

A recent article in The Telegraph details the plight of formerly employed Greek nationals who now must resort to scouring the streets to find scraps of cardboard, plastic bottles, metal or anything else that can be sold at recycling centers for a few meager euros per day.

Some of these unfortunate people are even forced to eat discarded food found in the trash bins of cities such as Athens, the article reports.



 

Half a million Greeks unable to vote in referendum | EurActiv

Half a million Greeks unable to vote in referendum | EurActiv



Half a million Greeks unable to vote in referendum

EXCLUSIVE / At least half a million Greeks are unable to vote in a referendum widely perceived as a choice on whether or not to remain in the eurozone, unless they return to Greece before Sunday’s poll.

There is no provision under Greek law to allow for voting abroad. Instead, Greeks must travel home to where they hold their voting rights to make their voices heard.

Since the 2007-8 financial crisis, 505,666 Greeks have left Greece, which has suffered two bailouts and years of harsh austerity and high unemployment, according to Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical office.

But the true figure of disenfranchised Greeks is likely to be even higher, because Eurostat does not have figures for 2007, 2009, 2014 or 2015.

Sunday’s referendum is officially on whether or not to accept new bailout terms offered by Greece’s creditors. But it is seen in practice as a vote on whether or not to remain in Eurozone.

http://www.euractiv.com/sections/euro-finance/half-million-greeks-unable-vote-referendum-315990



 

Alexis Tsipras' Syriza party swept to power on an anti-austerity platform.  [Karl-Ludwig Poggemann/Flickr]

Cecilia Malmström and TTIP won the Swedish Greenwash Award 2015 | Jordens Vänner

Cecilia Malmström and TTIP won the Swedish Greenwash Award 2015 | Jordens Vänner



 Cecilia Malmström and TTIP won the Swedish Greenwash Award 2015

Update:

Since Cecilia Malmström was attending the political fair Almedalen Week in Sweden, Friends of

the Earth Sweden took the opportunity to deliver the prize, while she was on her way to a seminar on the same treaty that caused her winning the award. A movie clip with English and Swedish subtitles is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcoV7qIb0jM

Cecilia Malmström and TTIP won the Swedish Greenwash Award 2015

Today, Friends of the Earth Sweden announced the winner of the Swedish Greenwash Award. Of five nominees, the European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström was voted

winner for her statements about the environment and the Transatlantic Trade and

Investment Partnership (TTIP).

The Swedish Greenwash Award goes out to organizations and politicians for false green

communication. The reason can be everything from lies about environmental work to

communicating small green investments to draw attention away from larger shortcomings. 

By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - Neither Greater Asia nor Greater Europe: America’s «Chaos» versus a Silk World Order - Strategic Culture Foundation - on-line journal > Neither Greater Asia nor Greater Europe: America’s «Chaos» versus a Silk World Order > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation

By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - Neither Greater Asia nor Greater Europe: America’s «Chaos» versus a Silk World Order - Strategic Culture Foundation - on-line journal > Neither Greater Asia nor Greater Europe: America’s «Chaos» versus a Silk World Order > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation



 Neither Greater Asia nor Greater Europe: America’s «Chaos» versus a Silk World Order

 Tectonic geopolitical shifts are taking place in Eurasia. The Venetian merchant Marco Polo and the Moroccan scholar Ibn Battuta, both great travelers of their days, would be thoroughly impressed with the trade networks that are developing. The Eurasia of today is developing into a vast network of superhighways, railroad connections, mammoth ports, and sophisticated airports.

Interconnectedness is the name of the game and Beijing has been leading the way forward. Despite China’s massive project to bring the economies of Eurasia together, the Chinese still faces resentment by those that want to tarnish the image and leadership role of the People’s Republic. Here is just the latest example: although it is annually reported around Ramadan that there are restrictions on China’s Muslims, this year there has been a large international media barrage of reports claiming that China has banned fasting in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. This type of media campaign evokes memories about the 3.14 protests that were orchestrated in the Tibet Autonomous Region and internationally to disrupt the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.



 

Nine Myths About the Greek Crisis – by James K. Galbraith | Yanis Varoufakis

Nine Myths About the Greek Crisis – by James K. Galbraith | Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis

Nine Myths About the Greek Crisis – by James K. Galbraith

Posted on July 3, 2015 by yanisv

 

Click here for the original Politico site, or read on…


The citizens of Greece face a referendum Sunday that could decide the
survival of their elected government and the fate of the country in the
Eurozone and Europe. Narrowly, they’re voting on whether to accept or
reject the terms dictated by their creditors last week. But what’s
really at stake? The answers aren’t what you’d think.


I have had a close view of the process, both from the US and Athens,
after working for the past four years with Yanis Varoufakis, now the
Greek finance minister. I’ve come to realize that there are many myths
in circulation about this crisis; here are nine that Americans should
see through.



 

As Referendum Looms, Troika Charged with Plotting 'Regime Change' in Greece | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

As Referendum Looms, Troika Charged with Plotting 'Regime Change' in Greece | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

As Referendum Looms, Troika Charged with Plotting 'Regime Change' in Greece

That
elite financial forces in Europe are using financial muscle to provoke
political outcomes in Athens has never been more apparent, say critics

by

Jon Queally, staff writer

 

 

Campaigners hold a solidarity protest for Greece in Trafalgar Square in London on Thursday. (Photo: EPA/Facundo Arrizabalaga)

The CIA’s Creation of “Islamic Terrorism” on American Soil | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

The CIA’s Creation of “Islamic Terrorism” on American Soil | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization: 



The CIA’s Creation of “Islamic Terrorism” on American Soil



 

By Dr. Paul L. Williams

Islamic paramilitary camps have been set up in the United States and Canada to train African American Muslims in guerilla warfare. After months of training on firing ranges and obstacle courses, the black Muslims are sent to Pakistan where they receive advanced training in explosives. Many never return.

Stories about these camps are not new. They have been reported by the main stream media, including Fox News.

The origin of these compounds for would-be jihadis dates back to 1979, when the Agency sent hundreds of radical Islamic clerics to the United States in an effort to recruit African American Muslims for the holy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan.



 

No Fracking Way! | Corporate Europe Observatory

No Fracking Way! | Corporate Europe Observatory



No Fracking Way!
CEO and FOEE lodge complaint with Ombudsman on industry-dominated advisory group

Following the publication of the Carte Blance for Fracking report earlier this year, CEO and Friends of the Earth Europe have submitted a complaint to the European Ombudsman about the industry dominated advisory group convened by the Commission to get fracking introduced through the back door.
 

 

DOCUMENT  PDF


No Fracking Way! CEO and Friends of the Earth Europe have lodged a complaint with the European Ombudsman on industry dominance of a Commission advisory group on #fracking

The move comes following the publication of the 'Carte Blance for Fracking' report earlier this year, available here:

http://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/attachments/carte_blanche_for_fracking_final.pdf

Leaked: What’s in Obama’s trade deal

Leaked: What’s in Obama’s trade deal

Is the White House going to bat for Big Pharma worldwide?

By
Michael Grunwald

 

What Stinks about Varoufakis and the Whole Greek Mess? | New Eastern Outlook

What Stinks about Varoufakis and the Whole Greek Mess? | New Eastern Outlook



 What Stinks about Varoufakis and the Whole Greek Mess?

Something stinks very bad about Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and the entire Greek mess that has been playing out since the election victory of the nominally pro-Greek Syriza Party in January. I am coming to the reluctant conclusion that far from being the champion of the hapless Greek people, Varoufakis is part of a far larger and very dirty game.

The brilliant psychologist Eric Berne, author of the seminal book Games People Play, would likely call the game of Varoufakis and the Troika, “Rapo,” as in the rape of the Greek people and, ultimately of all the EU, Germany included. How do I come to this surprising conclusion?

When the left-right coalition was elected by a Greek population desperate for change from the several years of austerity, pension cuts, health and education cuts demanded by the IMF in order to insure that Greek creditors be repaid their pound of flesh in terms of state debt, I was among many who held out hope that finally a government that stood for the interests of her people was in office in Athens.

What we have witnessed since is what can only be called a clown show, one in which the laugh is on the Greek people and EU citizens as a whole. The ones laughing, as often is so, are the mega banks and Troika–ECB, IMF and EU. Behind the Troika, almost invisible, are the Greek oligarchs who have robbed the state coffers of hundreds of billions over the years, tucking it away in numbered Swiss and Lichtenstein secret bank accounts, avoiding paying a single penny tax to support their nation. And it is looking more and more as though the “leftist” economist, Varoufakis’s role is that of a Trojan Horse for the destruction of the entire Eurozone by the bankers and those Greek oligarchs. Next after Greece Italy looks poised to become victim, and that will put the entire Euro in a crisis that is today unimaginable.



 

TISA Leaks Part Deux: More Evidence of Concerted Attack on Democracy | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

TISA Leaks Part Deux: More Evidence of Concerted Attack on Democracy | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community



TISA Leaks Part Deux: More Evidence of Concerted Attack on Democracy

A WikiLeaks analysis shows how 52-nation Trade in Services Agreement threatens both net neutrality and personal data privacy



 

The
Trade in Services Agreement "responds to major corporate lobbies’
desire to deregulate services," says global trade expert. (Photo: GGAADD/flickr/cc)

TISA Exposed: 'Holy Grail' of Leaks Reveals Detailed Plot for Corporate Takeover | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

TISA Exposed: 'Holy Grail' of Leaks Reveals Detailed Plot for Corporate Takeover | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

TISA Exposed: 'Holy Grail' of Leaks Reveals Detailed Plot for Corporate Takeover


Fifty-two-nation Trade in Services Agreement uses trade regulations 'as
a smokescreen to limit citizen rights,' says labor leader

At a protest in Geneva last year. (Photo: Annette Dubois/flickr/cc)

Iran: Volleyball Federation Should Penalize Ban on Women | Human Rights Watch

Iran: Volleyball Federation Should Penalize Ban on Women | Human Rights Watch

Iran: Volleyball Federation Should Penalize Ban on Women

Iranian Women Still Excluded from Stadiums

 

Fans of Iran during FIVB Volleyball World League 2015 Iran during a match against Poland on June 26, 2015 in Tehran, Iran.



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How Zionism Corrupts Judaism | Consortiumnews

How Zionism Corrupts Judaism | Consortiumnews



 How Zionism Corrupts Judaism

Judaism is a religion based on humanistic principles offering powerful arguments for social justice, but it has been hijacked by Zionists who have twisted it into an excuse for ethnic cleansing and mass murder, as Professor of Moral Theology Daniel C. Maguire describes.

By Daniel C. Maguire

Like the Palestinian people, Judaism is also suffering from siege and occupation. Zionism, a Nineteenth Century hallucinatory piece of fictive theology and a vicious ideology, has gotten a demonic grip on much of modern Jewish consciousness and has taken possession of U.S. policies in the Middle East.

Zionism is not Judaism; Judaism is 3,000 years old. Zionism is a heretical upstart based upon preposterous assumptions. In terms of theistic Judaism, Zionism teaches that God, the creator of everything in the universe from fruit flies to quasars, is also into real-estate distribution and has assigned Palestine to Jews or those who tenuously claim to be Jews … from dark-skinned Ethiopians to blue-eyed Russians.



 

The Prophet Isaiah (Illustration from a Bible card published by the Providence Lithograph Company)

El TiSA obligará a los Estados a hacer leyes que cumplan sus pactos secretos | bilaterals.org

El TiSA obligará a los Estados a hacer leyes que cumplan sus pactos secretos | bilaterals.org



 Tisa require States to make laws to fulfill their secret pacts


Public 'reveals Wikileaks world exclusive with twelve other countries
means, the content of the core text of the international agreement on
trade in services that are negotiated in the medium shade hundred
countries, including Spain although EU partners only represents the
European Commission. This secret treaty imposed on all signatories
clauses that benefit large multinational corporations at the expense of
sovereignty and public interests of each country.

The economic
laws of States approved in the future they will come imposed by
agreements secrets between allies fifty US government and the EU,
without parliamentarians and citizens know the real reasons for
legislating in favor of large multinational corporations even when it is
harming the public interest.



 

El ICAB alerta de los PELIGROS de los TRATADOS SECRETOS como TTIP y TISA | bilaterals.org

El ICAB alerta de los PELIGROS de los TRATADOS SECRETOS como TTIP y TISA | bilaterals.org



 
The ICAB warning of the dangers of secret treaties as TTIP and TISA


Bigstock Confilegal , 01/07/15



The dean of the College of Lawyers of Barcelona Oriol Rusca warning
about the hazards posed to citizens and professionals and investors the
approval of international treaties "secrets" as TTIP (which seeks to
regulate goods and products) and TISA (which aims to regulate services),
"we know from wikileaks" he says.



 

Diario Público

Diario Público



 wikileaks

The Tisa deliver personal data of millions of citizens to multinational ---- Ten secret pact threats to the global financial system Tisa Tisa ----- require states to make laws that meet ----- secrets pacts Tisa force governments to give voice to the multinationals in the laws affecting their business ------ International secret pact States Tisa remove the digital control data its citizens -----------

http://www.publico.es/search/?query=wikileaks



 

davidehsmith | The relationship between economics

davidehsmith | The relationship between economics

LIST OF RECENT ARTICLES, LETTERS & NOTIFICATIONS

LIST OF RECENT ARTICLES, LETTERS & NOTIFICATIONS


29) The European Union’s Commission’s receipt of: “The
NOTIFICATION of Preexisting CHALLENGE to the EU – Canada Comprehensive
Economic & Trade Agreement (CETA)”; EU may consider
“Renditioning Info” as Condition of CETA Deal to Minimize “Unethical
& Inhumane” Arrangements between Canadian lobbyists’
clients/parties’ executives; CHINA Unprotected with C-CITreaty?

How The Elite Stay In Power

How The Elite Stay In Power





How The Elite Stay In Power

In this video we break down in
simple terms the only way "those in power" can stay in power. It's not
as complex at it may seem. They need us more than we need them



 

Breaking the Silence › Video Testimony - Finding ways to relieve the boredom

Breaking the Silence › Video Testimony - Finding ways to relieve the boredom



 Breaking the Silence 



The testifier describes routine conduct in houses that were seized during Operation Protective Edge.



 

video catalog number: 50856
rank: First sergeant
unit: Mechanized Infantry
place: Gaza strip
period: Operation Protective Edge 2014

The testifier describes routine conduct in houses that were seized during Operation Protective Edge. 

• This video appears under these categories: Destruction of property, Humiliation, Protective Edge

1. This testimony can also be viewed with Hebrew subtitles

Department of Justice: Militarized Police Tactics Caused Ferguson Riots | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

Department of Justice: Militarized Police Tactics Caused Ferguson Riots | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization



According to a Department of Justice document obtained by the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, the police effort to handle protests with inappropriate,
militaristic tactics not only violated constitutional rights, it
effectively antagonized and incited the crowd—creating the very
situation police ostensibly sought to prevent.



 

‘UK spied on Merkel’s Greek bailout plans and told NSA’ – WikiLeaks — RT UK

‘UK spied on Merkel’s Greek bailout plans and told NSA’ – WikiLeaks — RT UK

‘UK spied on Merkel’s Greek bailout plans and told NSA’ – WikiLeaks

 

British intelligence agencies spied on German Chancellor Angela
Merkel and other leaders as they discussed Greek bailout plans for
European banks in 2011, WikiLeaks revelations suggest.




Phone calls from top
German ministers, public officials and even Merkel’s personal
assistant were intercepted by the UK and shared with the US
National Security Agency (NSA).



WikiLeaks claims the leaked cables reveal Merkel’s personal
skepticism about solutions to Greece’s financial crisis and
Berlin’s support for a special IMF bailout for banks funded by
the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South
Africa).



The cables, published Wednesday, also purport to show Germany’s
support for a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) to be levied on
banks, a move opposed by the UK and US. 



 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Reuters / Fabrizio Bensch)

 

UK surveillance Tribunal reveals the government spied on Amnesty International | Amnesty International

UK surveillance Tribunal reveals the government spied on Amnesty International | Amnesty International

UK surveillance Tribunal reveals the government spied on Amnesty International

In a shocking revelation, the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal
(IPT) today notified Amnesty International that UK government agencies
had spied on the organization by intercepting, accessing and storing its
communications.


In an email sent today,
the Tribunal informed Amnesty International its 22 June ruling had
mistakenly identified one of two NGOs which it found had been subjected
to unlawful surveillance by the UK government. Today’s communication
makes clear that it was actually Amnesty International Ltd, and not the
Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) that was spied on in
addition to the Legal Resources Centre in South Africa.


The NGOs were among 10 organizations that launched a legal challenge
against suspected unlawful mass surveillance of their work by the UK’s
spy agencies.



 

XKEYSCORE: NSA's Google for the World's Private Communications

XKEYSCORE: NSA’s Google for the World’s Private Communications

One of the National Security Agency’s most powerful tools of mass
surveillance makes tracking someone’s Internet usage as easy as entering
an email address, and provides no built-in technology to prevent
abuse. Today, The Intercept is publishing 48 top-secret and
other classified documents about XKEYSCORE dated up to 2013, which shed
new light on the breadth, depth and functionality of this critical spy
system — one of the largest releases yet of documents provided by NSA
whistleblower Edward Snowden.


The NSA’s XKEYSCORE program, first revealed by The Guardian,
sweeps up countless people’s Internet searches, emails, documents,
usernames and passwords, and other private communications. XKEYSCORE is
fed a constant flow of Internet traffic from fiber optic cables
that make up the backbone of the world’s communication network, among
other sources, for processing. As of 2008, the surveillance system
boasted approximately 150 field sites in the United States, Mexico,
Brazil, United Kingdom, Spain, Russia, Nigeria, Somalia, Pakistan,
Japan, Australia, as well as many other countries, consisting of over
700 servers.



These servers store “full-take data” at the collection sites — meaning
that they captured all of the traffic collected — and, as of 2009,
stored content for 3 to 5 days and metadata for 30 to 45 days. NSA
documents indicate that tens of billions of records are stored in its
database. “It is a fully distributed processing and query system that
runs on machines around the world,” an NSA briefing on XKEYSCORE says.
“At field sites, XKEYSCORE can run on multiple computers that gives it
the ability to scale in both processing power and storage.”



 

WikiLeaks - Trade in Services Agreement

WikiLeaks - Trade in Services Agreement

Trade in Services Agreement - Press release

Press Release

Today, Wednesday July 2, 2015 at 1500 CEST,
WikiLeaks continues publishing documents from the secret ongoing TiSA
(Trade in Services Agremeent) negotiations, with four Chapters in key
areas ahead of the next negotiating round on Monday: Electronic Commerce, Telecommunications Services, Financial Services and Maritime Transport Services.
All four texts include the confidential negotiating positions for each
of the TiSA participating countries. Today WikiLeaks is also publishing
detailed analyses on each of these Chapters, totalling 26 pages,
explaining how they have changed since previous rounds, also published
by WikiLeaks.



The Annexes show a concerted attempt to place
restrictions on the ability of participating governments to regulate
services sectors, even where regulations are necessary to protect the
privacy of domestic populations, the natural environment or the
integrity of public services. Today's TiSA documents follow WikiLeaks
publication yesterday of five TiSA negotiating texts including the Core
Text, and brings WikiLeaks' overall total of published secret TiSA texts to 28. 



 

▶ "I'm Just a Mom!" Daphne Lee Gives Powerful Speech Against NDAA in Clark County, Nevada - YouTube

▶ "I'm Just a Mom!" Daphne Lee Gives Powerful Speech Against NDAA in Clark County, Nevada - YouTube

"I'm Just a Mom!" Daphne Lee Gives Powerful Speech Against NDAA in Clark County, Nevada

After making her wait 8 hours, the Clark County Commission decided to
hear Daphne Lee speak against the NDAA in Clark County, NV. What
followed was one of the most powerful public comments in history.

PANDA
NV's Anti-NDAA Resolution, step one, will be on the Agenda Dec. 3rd at
the Clark County Commission Meeting @ 9AM. If you're in the area, please
attend and give her support!

The PANDA (People Against the NDAA Mission Statement:

Our
Mission is to nonviolently defeat, strike down, repeal, stop, void and
fight the indefinite detention provisions, Sections 1021 and 1022, of
the National Defense Authorization Act for the Fiscal Year of 2012, to
fight for American civil liberties, to combat laws restricting liberty
in the interest of National Security, to support current government
officials that are doing so and to engage a younger generation in the
politics of the United States so this cannot happen again.