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2 April, 2013 — CorpWatch Blog
Bank sign in Limassol, Cyprus. Photo: Leonid Mamchenkov. Used under Creative Commons license.
A few years ago Yiannis Kypri and Andreas Vgenopoulos, senior executives at the two biggest banks in Cyprus, were on top of the financial world. Kypri courted wealthy Russian investors in Moscow while Vgenopoulos handed out millions in loans to companies in Greece, the country of his birth.
19 March, 2013 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
The question is not should we advocate reducing production within capitalist society but rather: How do we best relate to those struggles that are already occurring? Activists across the globe are challenging the uncontrollable dynamic of economic expansion which threatens the survival of humanity. It has never been more urgent to provide a vision of a new society that can pull these efforts together.
29 March 2013 — Africa is a Country
South African actress/singer/writer Masello Motana has had a career in the entertainment business that many would envy. She has played a leading role in a number of South African television shows as well as in a mainstream feature film. Her poems have been published in several anthologies in that country and she regularly amazes audiences as a musical performer. Sounds like the good life. Well, life would be much simpler for Masello if only she was content with collecting paychecks from beauty contracts and soap opera gigs. If only she pretended last year’s horrific massacre of mineworkers at the now infamous Marikana platinum mine in South Africa’s northwest never happened. If only she ignored the fact that businessman Cyril Ramaphosa, board member of the company that operates the Marikana mine, was elected to deputy president of the country’s largest political party, the ANC. If only she had kept her mouth patriotically clasped about social and economic inequality in South Africa. Continue reading this...
28 March, 2013– webofdebt
Confiscating the customer deposits in Cyprus banks, it seems, was not a one-off, desperate idea of a few Eurozone “troika” officials scrambling to salvage their balance sheets. A joint paper by the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Bank of England dated December 10, 2012, shows that these plans have been long in the making; that they originated with the G20 Financial Stability Board in Basel, Switzerland (discussed earlier here; and that the result will be to deliver clear title to the banks of depositor funds.
25 March 2013 — Voltaire Network
Washington was quick to use the financial crisis in Cyprus to implement a strategy for capturing capital described three weeks ago in these columns [1]. With the help of the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, US comprador Christine Lagarde, the American leadership challenged the inviolability of private property in the European Union and attempted to confiscate a tenth of bank deposits, supposedly to bail out the Cypriot national bank affected by the Greek crisis.
28 March 2013 – Global Research
If your daily routine took you from one homegrown organic garden to another, bypassing vast fields choked with pesticides, you might feel pretty good about the current state of agriculture.
If your daily routine takes you from one noncommercial progressive website to another, you might feel pretty good about the current state of the Internet.
26 March 2013 – The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor
Capitalists imagine their mode of production as production for exchange and imagines its origins in trade, in the circulation of the commodities between producers and …..producers, between producers and consumers, producers and “circulators,” merchants.
25 March 2013 — The Bullet • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 789
class=”quest”>Vladimir Simovic and Darko Vesic (VS and DV): Norway is considered as one of the most successful (economically, socially, etc.) countries in Europe and beyond. As such Norway is usually taken as a model for other countries to look up to. But the real question would be is Norway an exception in this age of neoliberal capitalism and the crisis it generated?
24 March 2013 – Information Clearing House
Obama Boosts Syria Support as Congress Pushes Military Intervention
By Samer Araabi
“The CIA is on the ground helping sort out who should get money, and they’re training people in Jordan.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34398.htm
22 March 2013 — The Bullet • Socialist Project E-Bulletin No. 788
(Terminology: ‘property,’ does not mean that someone owns a pair of trousers, a car, a dildo or a frozen pizza. Property is meant only in the politically relevant sense of the word, where I have something at my disposal that compels others to bend over, to be pushed around, or to buck and bow, so that I can live as I do. If I own land, houses or apartments where someone wants to live or cultivate land, then they must surrender a portion of their wages, salary or something similar to me. If I own capital, I let it work for me; that is to say, I appropriate the labour of others for myself. Whoever does not like the use of such language should take it up with Karl Marx; he’s resting in peace and has time for such trifles.) Continue reading this...
18 March 2013 — The Bullet • Socialist Project E-Bulletin No. 786
An interview with Dimitra Maragoudaki and John Milios, members of the Central Committee of SYRIZA
19 March 2013 — Monthly Review
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. His books include The Liberal Virus, The World We Wish to See, and The Law of Worldwide Value (all published by Monthly Review Press). This article was translated from the French by James Membrez.
7 March 2013 – Asia Times Online
[Of course, this article doesn't address the fundamental problem capitalism has in replacing human labour with robots, namely, that robots don't get paid and they don't consume and, if millions more workers are replaced with robots then who will consume the robots' output? It's a rerun of the first industrial revolution of the 19th century, but ramped up several orders of magnitude. And, unlike the 19th century revolution, this one employs only highly skilled workers, who are few in number. No more mass employment engaged in mass production and mass consumption. WB]
3 March 2013 — Voltaire Network
During his annual State of the Union address, President Barack Obama unilaterally announced the opening of negotiations for a Transatlantic Global Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union (12 February). A few hours later, the scoop was confirmed by a joint statement from the U.S. President and the Presidents of the European Council, Herman van Rompuy and European Commission, José Manuel Barroso.
25 February 2013 – class=”relay” href=”http://www.newsocialist.org/”>New Socialist
At the moment that I am writing this text, the massive social class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>uprising in Slovenia continues and enters, with even fiercer political determination, into a new stage of political maturity. What began as an isolated sparkle in late November 2012 in Maribor, the second biggest city of Slovenia, spread to other cities and weeks later culminated in an all-Slovenian uprising composed of unprecedented masses across the country. The images of riots, broken windows, tear gas and police repression spoke of unprecedented political violence on the streets. The social class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>uprising also brought a fire burning the central myths of the Slovenian story of successful transition from the class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>socialist past.
20 February, 2013 — Now Media
The Council of the European Union renewed its arms embargo on Syria this week by another three months, with the slight amendment to allow for “greater non-lethal support and technical assistance for the protection of civilians.” The council further affirmed that it would “actively continue the work underway to assess and review, if necessary, the sanctions regime against Syria in order to support and help the opposition.”
20 February 2013 – Monthly Review
It is impossible to disentangle the migration and labor question today without a deep understanding of the nature of contemporary capitalism, namely, neoliberal globalization. One of the main features of the new global architecture, boosted by the emergence of one of the most distressing global crises since the Great Depression, is the assault on the labor and living conditions of the majority of the global working class, and in particular the migrant workforce, which is among the most vulnerable segments of this class. This essay will analyze some key aspects of the system that contemporary migration is embedded in, with emphasis on the process of segmentation and the growing precariousness (precarization) of labor markets worldwide.
20 February 2013 — MRZine
The depth and length of the global crisis are now clear to millions. In the sixth year since it started in late 2007, no end is in sight. Unemployment rates are now less than halfway back from their recession peak to where they were in 2007. Over 20 million are without work, millions more limited to part-time work, millions have been foreclosed out of their homes. Those who retain jobs suffer declining real wages, fewer benefits, reduced job security, and more work. Continue reading this...
19 February, 2013 – Global Research
We bring to the consideration of our readers this incisive and carefully formulated analysis by Canada’s renowned philosopher Professor John McMurtry.
The complete text published by the Journal of 9/11 Studies can be downloaded in pdf
10 February 2013 — The Wolf Report
Dann wird es, was es muss
1. When the bourgeoisie aren’t, and even when they are, flogging the virtues of responsibility, accountability, attention-to-detail, hands-on-management, they’re usually in court pleading out the latest bit of irregularities, high and petty crimes, misdemeanors, and assorted felonies, with claims of amnesia (“I have no recollection…”), or dementia (“I’ m not capable of recognizing my own handwriting”). Or, they’re busy blaming irresponsible, unaccountable, subordinate rogues for violating “corporate ethics” (sic); abusing the “trust;” going “too far” thereby turning the corporate good ship Lollipop into Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge.
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