World-News

"Am Rande der dritten TTIP-Freihandelsrunde sind brisante Details durchgesickert. Offenbar streben die Europäer die Schaffung eines ?Regulierungs-Rats? an, der die Gesetzgebung auf beiden Seiten des Atlantiks koordinieren soll. Damit erhielten Multis noch mehr Macht?" Artikel vom 18. Dezember 2013 von und bei Eric Bonse http://lostineu.eu/mehr-macht-fuer-multis/

Aus: LabourNet, 19. Dezember 2013

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The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: Until Republicans actually adopt progressive policies and make them their own, like Dwight D. Eisenhower did in the 1950s, there s nothing they can do to make themselves look like they are the party of everyday working people.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20698-goodies-for-the-rich-pennies-for-the-poor



Capitalism and Democracy: Year-End Lessons

Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: Increases in payroll taxes, opposition to the use of eminent domain to slow foreclosures, the implementation of Detroit bankruptcy to steal from public workers' pensions and the increase of repression against those who protest capitalism s depredations indicate the widening contradiction between capitalism and democracy.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/20550-capitalism-and-democracy-year-end-lessons



The War on Women: The Newly Invisible and Undeserving Poor in America

Ruth Rosen, openDemocracy: The US Congress is fighting over how much to cut food assistance to needy families. Everyone knows that women and their children are the poorest people in America, but strangely, the faces of women have disappeared from the debate and have been absorbed into abstract "needy families."

http://truth-out.org/news/item/20754-the-war-on-women-the-newly-invisible-and-undeserving-poor-in-america



NAFTA at 20: State of the North American Worker

Jeff Faux, Foreign Policy in Focus: Twenty years since its passage, NAFTA has displaced workers on both sides of the US-Mexico border, depressed wages, weakened unions and set the terms of the neoliberal global economy.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/20728-nafta-at-20-state-of-the-north-american-worker



The Political Economy of Predatory Capitalism

C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout: The world is returning to the predatory laissez-faire capitalism that immiserated millions in the early 20th century and is predicated on neoliberal *voodoo economics* void of empirical reference.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21138-the-political-economy-of-predatory-capitalism



And So They Fall: Unions and Workers

Rowan Wolf, Cyrano s Journal Today: The goal in the pushback against unions has been to create a borderless world for goods and finance while building fences with razor wire to keep workers in place.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/21320-and-so-they-fall-unions-and-workers



Dark Affinities: Liberal and Neoliberal

Joseph Natoli, Truthout: We cannot right our upside-down ship of state as long as oppressed and oppressors share the same dark dreams and values.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21139-dark-affinities-liberal-and-neo-liberal



The Financialization of Capitalism

C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout: The neoliberal capture of the state has laid the ground for the financialization of capitalism, a stage of capitalism that cannot be reversed without developing new methods of public provision in housing, education, health, pensions and the other sources financialization has used to create profit.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/21383-costas-lapavitsas-discusses-the-financialization-of-capitalism

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Accidental Tax Break Saves Wealthiest Americans $100 Billion

By shuffling his company stock in and out of more than 30 trusts, he's given at least $7.9 billion to his heirs while legally avoiding about $2.8 billion in U.S. gift taxes since 2010, according to calculations based on data in Adelson's U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings.

http://www.moneynews.com/Personal-Finance/Accidental-Tax-Break-Wealthiest-Americans/2013/12/17/id/542255



Who Owns Your Congressman?

Here s a look at which industries have given the most to which parties.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/12/owns-congressman.html



Barack Obama and the Legacy of American Capitalism

By Charles Sullivan

Democracy is the antithesis of capitalism! But capitalism is the product the U.S. government, the Pentagon, and the commercial media are marketing to us as democracy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37205.htm



Forty Percent Of Workers Made Less Than $20,000 Last Year

By Bryce Covert

Nearly 40 percent of all workers in the country made less than $20,000 last year, more than half of all workers made less than $30,000.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37243.htm



Capitalism in Crisis: Who are the REAL *Takers*?

By Bernard Weiner

There s an internal time-bomb inside this dysfunctional economic system.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37276.htm



Obama Trade Deal A 'Neoliberal Assault' To Further Corporate 'Domination'

Video

*It s designed to carry forward the neoliberal project to maximize profit and domination, and to set the working people in the world in competition with one another so as to lower wages to increase insecurity," Chomsky said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37357.htm



FTA at 20: A Model for Corporate Rule

NAFTA gave multinational corporations the right to sue governments to block regulations they don t like, undermining democracy and local sovereignty.

http://fpif.org/nafta-20-model-corporate-rule/


From Information Clearing House

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America s Greediest: The 2013 Top Ten
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/18-2

The Shocking Redistribution of Wealth in the Past Five Years
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/30-0

Ten Examples of Welfare for the Rich and Corporations
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/13-4

NAFTA at 20: A Model for Corporate Rule
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/15-5

It s Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Hikes for Working Families
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2014/01/16

27 Shocking Numbers That Reveal the True State of the Union
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/28-10

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Government of the Rich, by the Rich, for the Rich
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/john-w-whitehead/government-of-the-rich-by-the-rich-for-the-rich/



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By Gary Engler

If the system you want to build begins with working people around the world taking over the reins of the economy and replacing capitalist minority rule with economic democracy, then that could happen relatively quickly.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37123.htm



Scientists Consider Extinction: Are We Falling Off the Climate Precipice?

By Dahr Jamail

"Those people who think you can have a growing economy and a healthy environment are wrong. If we don t reduce our numbers, nature will do it for us."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37194.htm



Dire signs from a warming world

Global warming may be even more extreme, and potentially more catastrophic, than climate scientists had feared.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eugene-robinson-global-warmings-impact-cant-be-ignored/2014/01/27/b5917594-8792-11e3-a5bd-844629433ba3_story.html


From Information Clearing House



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If it blows, it s a world catastrophe.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/no_author/bad-news-about-the-yellowstone-supervolcano/



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UK MPs to receive 11% pay rise amid rise in malnutrition and mental health cuts

British MPs are set to receive an 11 percent raise, taking their annual salaries up to more than $120,000 a year, effective from May 2015. The news comes alongside a simultaneous foreign aid budget increase and in the fallout of ongoing cuts.

http://rt.com/news/uk-mp-wage-increase-145/



Merry Christmas: Millions to lose jobless benefits

Nesbitt is one of the 1.3 million people likely to be left with no unemployment benefits just three days after Christmas.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101243324



Retired GM workers just lost $450 million in benefits

A federal judge said General Motors is not required to pay $450 million to cover medical benefits for retirees, in a defeat for the United Auto Workers union.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101265411



Poverty Nation: How America Created a Low-wage Work Swamp

By Joan Walsh

A quarter of people who have jobs today make so little money that they also receive some form of public assistance, or welfare.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37132.htm



Budget Deal: Does the Pentagon Really Need An Extra $20 Billion?

By William D. Hartung

The Congress and the president should rethink the need to give the Pentagon over $20 billion more in fiscal 2014.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37113.htm



America Is the Most Inhumane Developed Country on the Planet: Are We Going to Let It Stay That Way?

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers

What would it be like if people in the U.S. knew they had these rights?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37134.htm



Poverty in America Is Mainstream

Contrary to popular belief, the percentage of the population that directly encounters poverty is exceedingly high. My research indicates that nearly 40 percent of Americans between the ages of 25 and 60 will experience at least one year below the official poverty line

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/02/poverty-in-america-is-mainstream/



I work 4 jobs and I am still struggling

Bingham is 37 years old and has a college degree, but like many Americans, is stuck working many hours in low wage, part-time jobs.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/12/news/economy/4-low-wage-part-time-jobs/index.html?hpt=hp_t5



High Stakes for Families Losing Jobless Benefits: 'We Could End Up Homeless'

The end of unemployment checks for more than a million people on Saturday is driving out-of-work Americans to consider selling cars, moving and taking minimum wage work after already slashing household budgets and pawning personal possessions to make ends meet.

http://www.moneynews.com/Economy/Unemployment-Benefits-Jobs-Labor/2013/12/28/id/544181



I am One of the 22,000 Homeless Kids Living in New York

It s impossible to succeed unless you can escape being homeless. My grades went kaputz when I lived in the shelters.

http://www.alternet.org/im-one-22000-homeless-kids-living-new-york



40 percent of jobless youth facing mental illness symptoms with one-in-three contemplating suicide

Young people who have been unemployed in the long-term are also more than twice as likely as their peers to believe they have nothing to live for, the study said.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/02/40-percent-of-jobless-youth-facing-mental-illness-symptoms-with-one-in-three-contemplating-suicide/



The Year of the Great Redistribution

By Robert Reich

American corporations made their big bucks mostly by reducing their costs, especially their biggest single cost: wages.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37305.htm



Deregulation, Privatization, and Cheap Labor: Obama s Corporate Plantations

By Mike Whitney

The man that helped push through the multi-trillion dollar Wall Street bailouts is not going to give one red cent to the nation s poorest and most needy people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37341.htm



No Jobs For Americans

By Paul Craig Roberts

In America the unemployment rate is a deception just like everything else.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37352.htm



Defense contractors spend millions lobbying Congress, get billions in new budget

According to lobbying information released Monday, major defense contractors spent more than $65 million influencing Congress during 2013, with much of that effort likely aimed at rolling back the sequester cuts.

http://watchdog.org/124909/defense-spending/


From Information Clearing House

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US Budget Deal: The Good, Bad and Stupid
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/19-0

Cruelty, Corporations, Congress, and Christmas: Unhappy Holidays for the Poor and Unemployed
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/24-0

'Nothing to Live For': Youth Unemployment, Depression, and Austerity
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/02-1

50 Years Later, A New Hunger for National Anti-Poverty Agenda
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/08-11

How Wall Street Won the War (And What Happens Next)
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/21-3

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Unemployed Americans Speak Out as Benefits Are Slashed at Christmas

John Dodds, Truthout: Unless Congress acts to extend the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program, millions of Americans will be left with no benefits to support their families in an economy where there are still three unemployed workers for every job and the average length of unemployment is more than 37 weeks.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20722-voices-of-unemployed-americans-as-benefits-are-slashed-at-christmas



Corporations Control Our Lives

Thom Hartmann, The Thom Hartmann Program: Corporate power has a stranglehold on the entire American existence, and it has turned our entire lives into a profit-making venture. We must regain our power by declaring that corporations are not people and money is not speech.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21021-corporations-control-our-lives



Shame on Congress for Its Criminal Neglect of the Jobless

Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America s Future: The same Republicans who complained that people should be getting jobs instead of unemployment checks also boxed Congress into passing a budget that will essentially guarantee that the long-term unemployed will continue struggling to find work.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21313-shame-on-congress-for-its-criminal-neglect-of-the-jobless



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Bill Moyers, TomDispatch: There is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise known as social justice) and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20583-the-great-american-class-war-plutocracy-vs-democracy

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Gunfighter Nation
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/12/13-0

As Congress Targets Food Stamps, Working Poor Get Whacked Again
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/28-0

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Global Leadership: It s Broke and it Needs Fixing

By Anthony Evans

We are constantly brainwashed by our trusted leaders with the illusions of freedom.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37122.htm



Is America becoming a plutocracy?

More than half of all members of Congress are millionaires. While the US is faced with unprecedented issues surrounding unemployment, food stamps, social assistance and minimum wage rates, it begs the question: has the US turned into a plutocracy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3VA2pTI5KE



Freedom is Something to Use or Lose

We Must Fight the Antisocial Behaviour Bill

By George Monbiot

Consumerism s petty liberties have made us inhumanly passive. We've forgotten what freedom is, and how easily it is lost.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37425.htm



The Global Plutocracy

By Andre Damon and Barry Grey

The people of the world are confronted with the question: What is to be done with this anti-social and criminal layer that is strangling the planet?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37429.htm



Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. s Solution to Poverty

By Jordan Weissmann

In his final book, the civil rights leader laid out his vision for a universal basic income that would raise all Americans into the middle class.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37423.htm



Record 20% of Households on Food Stamps in 2013

The USDA says that there were 23,052,388 households on food stamps in the average month of fiscal 2013, an increase of 722,675 from fiscal year 2012, when there were 22,329,713 households on food stamps in the average month.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/record-20-households-food-stamps-2013



The new face of food stamps: working-age Americans

In a first, working-age people now make up the majority in U.S. households that rely on food stamps, a switch from a few years ago, when children and the elderly were the main recipients.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FOOD_STAMPS_INCOME_INEQUALITY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-01-26-10-54-18



House passes bill cutting $8 billion from 'food stamps' program

The US House approved a five-year, nearly $1 trillion farm bill Wednesday reforming the federal government s crop subsidy system but cutting food stamps to pare the deficit.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/29/house-passes-bill-cutting-8-billion-from-food-stamps-program/


From Information Clearing House

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When Happiness Died in America...

The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: For hundreds of years, we have stood by the idea that through hard work and perseverance, and given the right opportunities, anyone can be happy in America and achieve the American Dream. But today, the American Dream is on life support, and happiness is more elusive than ever before.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20671-when-happiness-died-in-america

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Welcome to the American plutocracy

The Progressive

01/27/14

Relatively few of us have even begun to understand how compromised by corporate greed and power our system of government has truly become. Even those who recognize the problem and take to the streets to speak out against Wall Street and the big banks only address the tip of this massive, opaque iceberg we have crashed into. The truth is, the United States no longer has a government of, by and for the people. We are ruled by amoral multinational corporations that exercise their dictates by purchasing our government and flexing its muscle against the only thing that threatens their vast wealth and opulence: the people. Welcome to the American plutocracy...

http://progressive.org/welcome-to-the-american-plutocracy


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Eine Studie des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaft zeigt für die letzte Legislaturperiode, dass Nebenjobs nicht nur auf Kosten der Anwesenheitszeiten im Parlament gehen, sondern auch andere Aktivitäten beeinträchtigen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/40/40549/

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Nach einer Bertelsmannstudie verstärkt sich der Trend, dass sich ganze Schichten und Stadtteile auf Dauer vom demokratischen Prozess entfernen und der Staat zu einer Demokratie der oberen und mittleren Schichten wird.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/40/40551/



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Das Urteil des Bonner Landgerichts im Fall von Kunduz ist für die Angehörigen der Toten eine Niederlage. Allerdings wird so auch der Mythos vom zivilisierten Krieg infrage gestellt.

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