Day: April 30, 2014

Ukraine: Coup-Government Acknowledges Defeat

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30 April 2014 — Moon of Alabama

[Note: The views expressed here are not necessarily mine but I think it’s a worthwhile contribution to the debate. WB]

Pushed by CIA Director Brennan and Vice President Biden the Ukrainian government twice tried to use its military against federalists in the east. The second time, when it pushed to blockade the city of Slovyansk, the Russian Federation announced a snap maneuvers of its border troops and threatened to intervene. Kiev called back its forces and the federalists occupied state buildings in more cities in east. Some 23 cities and towns in the Donbass region, which delivers a third of Ukraine’s GDP, are now in their hands. More will be by tomorrow.

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Selling Hydraulic Fracking: The Myth Of Energy Independence Used To Hoodwink The American People By Dylan Murphy and Jo Murphy

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29 April 2014 — Global Research

”Cheap energy [from oil and gas fracking] is making sure that America now has a manufacturing renaissance,” Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mayor and President Obama’s former chief of staff told CNBC. Emanuel added. “The biggest revolution equal to the Internet is the energy independence in the United States.”

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This week in Black Agenda Report 30 April 2014: Donald Sterling Owns NAACP, Bad Jobs Country, Lessons of Bundy & Sterling

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30 April 2014 — Black Agenda Report

This week in Black Agenda Report

Donald Sterling Thinks He Owns Basketball Players, But He Really DOES Own the NAACP

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

Billionaire racists will be billionaire racists. Not much we can do about that. But the fact that our so-called civil rights organizations depend on the deep pockets of Wal-Mart, Comcast, and the David Sterlings of this world even though they pretend to represent the interests of ordinary black people is not something we have to live with. Continue reading →

Video: The 1% and Piketty

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30 April 2014— The Real News Network

Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Jessica Desvarieux in Baltimore. And welcome to this edition of The Hudson Report. Now joining us is Michael Hudson. Michael is a distinguished research professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His two newest books are The Bubble and Beyond and Finance Capitalism and Its Discontents. Continue reading →

Osborne’s flagship employment scheme fails on launch date By Symon Hill

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28 April 2014 — National Coalition for Independent Action

Dozens of voluntary sector organisations reject planned role in the scheme

George Osborne’s headline policy at the last Conservative Party conference, known as “Community Work Placements” or “Help to Work” has launched today. However, the scheme is already in jeopardy, having failed to generate the voluntary sector participation it requires.

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G4S given job of community placements

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29 April 2014 — National Coalition for Independent Action

skull and crossbonesG4S is the biggest winner of “Help to Work” contracts, the latest workfare programme which started yesterday. G4S is currently under investigation for fraud. As part of this contract G4S will seek placements in voluntary groups, which will be responsible for reporting claimants for benefit sanctions if they fail to comply with the placement.

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Obama’s ‘Strategy’ Against ‘Pariah’ Russia By Pepe Escobar

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30 April 2014 — Asia Times

Yet the sanctions game will persist (like it did with Cuba, Iraq, Iran). The White House is already concocting more of the same. No adults in Europe will follow. Even poodles are able to sniff that the Obama administration does not even qualify to play Game of Thrones on PlayStation 3. 

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Ukraine Crisis Accelerating the Restructuring of the World By Pierre Charasse

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30 April 2014 — Voltaire Network

The Ukrainian crisis has not radically changed the international situation but it has precipitated ongoing developments. Western propaganda, which has never been stronger, especially hides the reality of Western decline to the populations of NATO, but has no further effect on political reality. Inexorably, Russia and China, assisted by the other BRICS, occupy their rightful place in international relations.

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Wall Street Journal outlines US military options against China By Tom Peters

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30 April 2014 — WSWS

An article in the Wall Street Journal last Sunday revealed that the Pentagon has devised a range of “military options” to intervene against China in territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas. The options, described as “muscular” and “provocative,” include “increasing surveillance operations near China,” deploying nuclear-capable B-2 and B-52 bomber aircraft, and sending an aircraft carrier into the Taiwan Strait in response to any Chinese “provocation.”

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