A new treaty being negotiated in secret between the US and the EU has been specifically engineered to give companies what they want — the dismantling of all social, consumer and environmental protection, and compensation for any infringement of their assumed rights. by Lori M Wallach
"Given Popovic’s relationships with McFaul; his previous work helping train activists to foment regime change in countries in which Western powers have a vested interest; his questionable relationships with private intelligence firms that are paid by transnational corporations to monitor and gather intelligence on activists, and his close ties to moneyed Wall Street high-rollers, anyone who has read the investigation closely and methodically and still fully trusts Popovic is either incredibly naive or willfully ignorant."
LONDON—Today, Monday 27 February,[2012] WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files – more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The emails date from between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal’s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defense Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor’s web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods
by Nathan Schneider December 2, 2013 refers to" a new paper published in the journal Societies Without Borders in September by Sean Chabot and Majid Sharifi. It’s called “The Violence of Nonviolence: Problematizing Nonviolent Resistance in Iran and Egypt.” "
Hundreds of letters defending Jeremy Hammond, who is facing 10 years in prison for email leaks, call for lenient sentence Ed Pilkington in New York theguardian.com, Monday 4 November 2013
Guardian 15 Nov 2013 Ed Pilkington Jeremy Hammond: "The government celebrates my conviction and imprisonment, hoping that it will close the door on the full story. I took responsibility for my actions, by pleading guilty, but when will the government be made to answer for its crimes?"
epamaegina 2 April, 2012: "The “indignados” must move on and propose a system of organized competition between direct democracy and parliamentary democracy, to be enshrined in new constitutions."
Global Trends by Martin Khor Monday 2 December 2013 WTO food fight in Bali? Will developing countries be allowed to promote food security schemes that buy food from small farmers and also help poor consumers? This is one the issues at the WTO’s Ministerial Conference next week.
Itellan toimintakulttuurin ongelmaa heijastaa se, että laitos ylipäätään ajautui lakon uhkaan. Ilmeisesti osapuolet pääsivät lopulta yhteisymmärrykseen tilanteen vaatimuksista. Muuten postin jakajat olisivat saattaneet ajautua samanlaiseen tilaan kuin Elannon hevosmiehet, jotka ovat olleet lakossa vuodesta 1956. Kehitys oli tehnyt heidän palveluksensa tarpeettomiksi, ja Postilaitoksenkin on syytä pohtia uusia tapoja tuottaa tarpeellista palvelua. Tarve kuljettaa paperia paikoista toisiin vähenee kiihtyvää tahtia viestintäteknologian kehittyessä. -- Vesa Varhee 3.12.13 Taloussanomat
ALEC calls for penalties on 'freerider' homeowners in assault on clean energy • Documents reveal conservative group's anti-green agenda • Strategy to charge people who install their own solar panels • Environmentalists accuse Alec of protecting utility firms' profits • ALEC facing funding crisis after exodus of big donors Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington and Ed Pilkington in New York theguardian.com, Wednesday 4 December 2013
Online giants Yelp, Facebook, Google and Microsoft all have representatives on ALEC’s technology task force, the Daily Beast reported Friday. Via the Beast: