21 January 2014 — Sustainable Pulse
“It must be as if the study had never happened,” said French MEP Corinne Lepage, who also challenged EU science adviser Anne Glover over her conflicts of interest with industry.
Day: January 21, 2014
NHS: Why this year’s Davos could be bad for our health By John Hillary
21 January 2014 — OurNHS
EU and US trade barons should enjoy the rarified air of Davos while they can. They have stormy times ahead.
With Syria talks in disarray, UN yanks invitation to Iran By Bill Van Auken
21 January 2014 — WSWS
The United Nations has abruptly rescinded an invitation to Iran to participate in talks organized by the major powers on a political settlement of the three-year-old conflict in Syria.
The Soul of Man under Socialism By Oscar Wilde
21 January 2014 — The Marxist Internet Archive
Oscar Wilde 1891
The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely anyone at all escapes.
Ex-UK minister of defence and former army chief of staff named in Iraq war crimes case By Jean Shaoul
21 January 2014 — WSWS
Britain has been referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague over allegations of war crimes committed during the occupation of Iraq. There was a call for an ICC investigation under Article 15 of the Rome Statute into the actions of senior British officials during the conflict.
NEW SERIES: THE SOUL OF MAN UNDER SOCIALISM
21 January 2014 — New Left Project
Wit, provocateur, sharp social satirist. Oscar Wilde was, famously, all these things, but he was also a highly engaged participant in the radical political circles of late Victorian London. Nowhere was his stature as a serious political thinker more evident than in his 1891 essay, ‘The Soul of Man under Socialism.’
The Soul of Man under Socialism By Sos Eltis
21 January 2014 — New Left Project
Despite its title, Wilde’s 1891 essay ‘The Soul of Man under Socialism,’ first published in the Fortnightly Review, advocated not state socialism but anarchism: there were to be no laws, no prisons, no punishments, no family, in short no authority over the individual. In Wilde’s utopia everything necessary or useful was to be manufactured by communally-owned machines, while people were to be left free to choose their own occupations, cultivating leisure and pleasure, ‘the making of beautiful things, or reading beautiful things, or simply contemplating the world with admiration and delight.’
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 20 January 2014: Israel’s ‘Jewishness’ claim rejected
20 January 2014 — VTJP
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Ashrawi Denounces Statements of Australian FM
IMEMC – Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, strongly denounced statements made by Australian FM, Julie Bishop, who criticized what she called “European pressure on Israel’. …
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South Africa: Infrastructure ‘fast-track’ may trip up government and corporations By Patrick bond
21 January 2014 — The Daily Maverick
What we academics often term South Africa’s ‘Minerals-Energy Complex‘ (MEC) keeps getting away with murder, including economic strangulation. As just one example, in spite of a recent trade surplus, the balance of payments is going into extreme deficit largely because MEC multinational mining houses – especially BHP Billiton, Anglo, DeBeers, Lonmin and Glencore – vacuum out profits to their London and Melbourne financial headquarters. This leaves SA basking not in BRICS prosperity but instead leading the slide of the ‘Fragile Five’: big emerging markets suffering vast capital outflows.
The New Dark Age 