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Richard Wolff: Eurozone Woes Result From Mating of Our "Dysfunctional" Political, Economic Systems

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Juan Gonzalez - Dec. 02 (News Analysis) - Richard Wolff: Eurozone Woes Result From Mating of Our "Dysfunctional" Political, Economic Systems European leaders are preparing to unveil their plans for addressing the sovereign debt crisis that’s threatened to tear apart the eurozone. Both France and Germany are expected to push for changes to the eurozone treaty, including centralized oversight of national budgets and tighter reins on debt

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Wall Street v. Greece: G20 Opens as Greek PM Pushes For Referendum on Bailout and Austerity Measures

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Nov. 03 (News Report) - World leaders are gathering in Cannes for the opening of the Group of 20 summit today. On the top of the agenda is the Greece bailout and the European debt crisis. On Monday, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou angered many European leaders by announcing his support for a popular referendum — allowing the Greek people to decide if they want to accept the conditions of the $179 billion European Union bailout. After days of increasing criticism from European leaders, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is now facing calls from within his party to resign. The Greek debt scandal has also pitted U.S. banking interests against France, Germany and other European powers. "The Americans are putting immense pressure on Europe saying, 'We will wreck your economy if you don’t wreck Greece's economy,'" says economic analyst Michael Hudson. President Obama is “basically telling Europe, ‘Don't go the democratic route, support Wall Street.’” [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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Italian Wikipedia shuts down to protest proposed new libel laws

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

OpenGlobe - By Tempodivalse, C628, Frozen Wind - Oct. 04 (News Report) - The Italian Wikipedia shut down earlier on Tuesday, as a protest against a new libel law proposed in the Italian Parliament. The potential law would force those writing on the Internet two days to remove a post that a claimant considers defamatory to his image, or else be fined 12,000 euros. The legislature is called "DDL intercettazioni", or the Wiretapping Act.

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Invisible millions pay price of statelessness

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

MSN.com - Aug. 24 (Investigative Report) - Rejected by the countries they call home and denied the most basic of rights, stateless people live in a shadowy limbo — in the words of one, like being "between the earth and the sky." ...

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'Naked' body scanners a failure, police union says -

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

thelocal.de - Aug. 02 (News Report) - The head of the Gewerkschaft der Polizei (GdP) police union, Bernhard Witthaut, told the daily Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung on Monday that the two full body scanners had proved a failure. “The trial in Hamburg has shown that body scanners aren’t suited right now for widespread deployment,” he said.

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Norway Attacks: We Can No Longer Ignore the Far-Right Threat

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Matthew Goodwin, - Jul. 24 (News Analysis) - I spent four years interviewing far-right activists, many of whom rejected political violence. Yet what became clear during this research was that there is, unquestionably, a culture of violence within the broader far-rightwing subculture. Many of the ideas that were voiced during this research have also come to light over the past 48 hours: the perceived threat posed by Muslim communities, a belief that mainstream parties are incapable of dealing with this threat and strong emphasis on a "clash of civilizations" between members of the majority population and minority groups.

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Horse welfare declines after closing of U.S. slaughter plants

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

billingsgazette.com - By Jan Falstad - Jun. 25 (News Report) - The closure of the last U.S. horse slaughter plants in the fall of 2007 has failed to reduce the number of horses shipped to slaughter.

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Ukraine's Assault on a Free Press

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By David Marks - Jan. 24 (News Report) - In Ukraine, where media diversity is often defined by which powerful oligarch controls which TV station, one network, TVi -- known for its independent investigative style -- is under intense legal pressure, with its owner not part of Ukraine's power circles.

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Enlightenment Islam?

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Oct. 26 (Special Report) - The program belongs to a new fashion: Europe educating its own imams. Experts have warned for years that Islamic religious leaders in Europe have been trained abroad, in Arabic or Turkish. Rauf Ceylan, a professor of religious studies in Osnabrück, Germany, says imams in his country by and large can’t understand the problems of their flocks or speak the language.

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Court Puts Limits on German Church’s Ability to Fire Workers

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Ethics Daily - By Niels Sorrells - Sep. 27 (News) - The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday (Sept. 23) that a church organist’s employment rights were ignored when he was fired by a Catholic church for remarrying outside the church.

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Could This Be A Crime?

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

climatestorytellers.org - By Subhankar Banerjee - Aug. 26 (Special Report) - Last month the U.S. Senate finally put an end to the climate bill. Since then several opinion pieces have been published, including articles in Yale Environment 360, Grist, TomDispatch, The Nation, and The Hill. Some of these point out why the U.S. climate movement failed, while others call for a new movement. Global warming is a crisis: for all lands, for all oceans, for all rivers, for all forests, for all humans, for all birds, for all mammals, for all little creatures that we don’t see... for all life. We need stories and actions from every part of our earth. So far, global warming communications have primarily focused on scientific information. I strongly believe that to engage the public, we need all fields of the humanities. It is to this end that I founded ClimateStoryTellers. And there is much action: globally, 350.org and Climate Justice Movement; nationally, organizations such as Center for Biological Diversity; and state-based initiatives such as New Energy Economy in New Mexico. These groups give us hope that a bold – not weak – climate movement will continue to move forward with renewed energy. Our task is to make the collective global voice louder and louder until ignoring such loud cacophony will not be an option by our governments. Global warming is not something we can solve with good behavior and healthy lifestyles. It will require major government action to control pollution–and–polluters and to start a low–carbon–society.

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Don’t Panic. It’s Only the Internet.

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Aug. 24 (Special Report) - Cyberwar has become one of the “foreign frights of 2010,” and not just in the U.S. Some 20 nations have been setting up cyberdefense headquarters to develop new “weapons” and steel their networks against electronic attack.

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Taking High-Speed Trains into the Future

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Bruce Selcraig - Aug. 16 (Special Report) - For the U.S. to have world-class high-speed trains, the government will have to subsidize them. The investment would be small compared to the billions lavished on highways and airports.

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Weighing Safety Of Weed Killer In Drinking Water, EPA Relies Heavily On Industry-Backed Studies

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Danielle Ivory - Jul. 08 (Investigative Report) - Companies with a financial interest in a weed-killer sometimes found in drinking water paid for thousands of studies federal regulators are using to assess the herbicide's health risks, records of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency show. Many of these industry-funded studies, which largely support atrazine's safety, have never been published or subjected to an independent scientific peer review.

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At Least 117 People Killed in Kyrgyzstan; An Estimated 80,000 Uzbeks Have Fled

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Scott Horton, Amy Goodman - Jun. 14 (News Report) - The interim government has accused former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev of provoking the violence in order to destabilize the country ahead of a planned constitutional referendum later this month. Bakiyev was ousted from power in an uprising this April. On Sunday, he issued a statement from exile in Belarus saying he had played no role in the violence. For more, we're joined in New York by Scott Horton. He's a contributing editor to Harper's Magazine and a founding trustee of the American University in Central Asia in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek. He has just returned from a visit to Kyrgyzstan, where he met with several members of the interim government.

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Geert Wilders shocks the Nnetherlands on election day: Will he get to lead?

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Pajamas Media - By Leon de Winter - Jun. 10 (News Analysis) - Netherlands is considered a left-liberal country, but in reality it is evenly divided between left and right. The elections of June 9 indicate a slight tilt to the right, which in itself is not a dramatic event: on many occasions in the past the right had a small majority. But media outlets are reporting the outcome of the elections as a huge change in Dutch society. It is not. It changed ten years ago. The unrest among Dutch voters has been visible since the rise of Pim Fortuyn, the amazing Dutch politician who was killed in 2002 by a radical leftist animal-rights activist. A couple of the main issues in the Netherlands (or Holland — the name Holland is used for only the two most western provinces of this small country) had been neglected by the traditional political parties, and Pim Fortuyn was the intellectual, emotional, and theatrical politician who was able to bring these two issues — immigration and the future of the welfare state — to the forefront of the political debate.

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Fusion Power: More Promising Than Ever, but Hamstrung by Budget Concerns

Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

industry.bnet.com - By Chris Morrison - May. 28 (News) - Starting from relatively small pilot units, research has progressed to huge, complex projects that promise the breakthroughs needed to make fusion usable. But now that it’s come time to built these fusion mega-projects, the unfortunate reality is setting in.

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Soviet-Era Registration System Fosters Discontent in Kyrgyzstan

Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

EurasiaNet - By David Trilling - May. 11 (News Report) - Azim Pasanov’s home on the outer limits of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan’s capital, has no water and no electricity. Eighteen years after he moved there, his life remains unsettled. Doctors won’t see his bedridden wife, Sanabubu, and he can’t send all his grandchildren to school because he and his relatives still lack proper registration documents

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Analysis: Italian mafia brokering Mexican drug trade

Thu, 06 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Christopher Livesay - May. 06 (Special Report) - Calabrian syndicate has re-focused efforts on shipping drugs from Latin America to West Africa, grossing $60 billion a year.read more

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Chernobyl still urgent threat on anniversary: Ukraine

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ptinews.com - Apr. 26 (News Report) - (AFP) President Viktor Yanukovych today warned that Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear plant remains an urgent threat due to lagging safety measures, on the 24th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster.

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2-Year European Inflation Rates

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

stefanmikarlsson.blogspot.com - By Stefan Karlsson - Apr. 23 (News Analysis) - British inflation numbers were released today, showing a 3.4% increase. Together with the European numbers released last Friday this means that we can now summarize 2 year inflation rates, which is to say the cumulative 2 year change in consumer prices. I selected below inflation numbers for various European countries based on which countries had the most significant changes and those that were biggest (if you're interested in those that I omitted see here).

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Romania says poverty reduction is ‘impossible target’

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

EurActiv - Apr. 22 (News) - Romania, one of the poorest countries in Europe, has never dealt with poverty reduction in the twenty years since its transition to a market economy, which makes any commitment to the EU's 2020 poverty reduction goals seem "utopian". EurActiv Romania reports.

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Caribbean middle-income nations want special treatment to cope with economic turbulence

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

allvoices.com - By Chabrol - Apr. 21 (News) - The 15-nation Caribbean Community is lobbying for support from among Latin American and European countries to be given special treatment because many of Caribbean nations are vulnerable to external shocks although they are statistically classified as 'middle-income countries'.

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The Asian Rebound Continues in Full Force

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Seeking Alpha - By Jim Delaney - Apr. 19 (News Analysis) - The Great Recession has taught us all many lessons regarding unintended consequences but I doubt anyone would have thought that when the acronym for the troubled economies of Portugal, Italy, Ireland Greece and Spain, now commonly referred to as the PIIGS, was first coined there would be another use for it. After Friday’s news that Goldman Sachs (GS) was being sued by the SEC for “misstating and omitting facts” in a CDO that ultimately cost investors over $1BN, it seems as if Greece and Spain can now be replaced with Goldman’s stock symbol without changing its meaning as, if the lawsuit is successful, it will be because GS was being a greedy little piggy.

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Pigs

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Maurice Ulrich - Feb. 08 (News) - Pigs, swine. That's how the markets' and the banks' Dr. Strangeloves now refer to the most fragile countries in the euro zone, as a play on their initials: Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain. The PIGS! In a veritable financial war that has just entered a new phase with the markets' aggression against countries and people, these words say much. Contempt, humiliation, deprecation, it's the vocabulary of thugs, even though they may wear white collars and a tie, with respect to those they intend to slaughter. read more

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