28 May 2014 – Sustainable Pulse
Day: May 28, 2014
Ukraine News Links 27-28 May 2014
28 May 2014 20:00:15 — williambowles.info
Ukrainian aviation administration bans flights to Donetsk (ITAR-TASS)
EU offers Kiev to repay half of April-May debt amid price wrangle (ITAR-TASS)
Abducted Polish priest freed in Ukraine’s Donetsk (Voice of Russia)
Black Agenda Report for May 28, 2014: 1 Year After Closing 50 Chicago Schools, Boko Haram a Blessing, Targeting Black Children
28 May 2014 — Black Agenda Report
One Year After Chicago Closes 50 Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union Assesses the Lies and Lasting Damage
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
A couple years ago, we at Black Agenda Report wondered why the closings of 40 public schools over three years in Philly and 50 schools in Chicago were not national news. The answer of course, was that corporate media and politicians from Romney and Obama down to black mayors and state legislators agree that public education ought to be handed to business groups and charter schools even though privatization is enormously unpopular. Continue reading
Weather Report: ‘Black Market/Scarlet Woman’
28 May 2014 — Jazz on the Tube
Stadthalle Offenbach, Offenbach am Main, Germany, 1978
One of these songs is the title track off of Weather Report’s “Black Market.” That album was the the first of the band’s to feature new bass player Jaco Pastorius. Many critics characterize Weather Report as one of the earliest innovators in jazz fusion. Dozens of musicians’ participation in the group over a decade and a half ensured its survival, under the leadership of Joe Zawinul.
Personnel: Joe Zawinul, keyboard; Wayne Shorter, saxophone; Peter Erskine, drums; Dom Um Romao, percussion; Jaco Pastorius, bass
US: Retail Death Rattle Grows Louder
27 May 2014 — WashingtonsBlog
The definition of death rattle is a sound often produced by someone who is near death when fluids such as saliva and bronchial secretions accumulate in the throat and upper chest. The person can’t swallow and emits a deepening wheezing sound as they gasp for breath. This can go on for two or three days before death relieves them of their misery. The American retail industry is emitting an unmistakable wheezing sound as a long slow painful death approaches. Continue reading
The bloodbath in Donetsk BY Thomas Gaist and Barry Grey
27 May 2014 — WSWS
This week’s mass killings in Donetsk have further exploded efforts to portray February’s Western-orchestrated putsch in Ukraine as a “democratic revolution” and exposed the brutal and reactionary character of Washington’s puppet regime in Kiev.
Libya plunging towards civil war By Jean Shaoul
27 May 2014 — WSWS
Three years after the NATO-led campaign backed armed Islamist militias to overthrow the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Libya teeters on the brink of all-out civil war.
The Financial Times’ attack on Thomas Piketty
27 May 2014 — WSWS
In a series of articles over the past several days, and in a major editorial published on Monday, the Financial Times has launched a scurrilous attack on Thomas Piketty and his book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
The New Dark Age 