Posts Tagged ‘inequality’

Miko Peled – The Best Israeli

  June 1, 2016 Source Article from http://henrymakow.com/2016/06/miko-peled-the-best-israeli.html

Confirmed: The soil under your feet is teeming with life

     What lies beneath? Researchers hardly know. That’s the message of a new atlas describing the biodiversity of soil, to be released tomorrow (May 25) at the United Nations Environmental Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya. Dirt, the authors say, is remarkably diverse. There are some 30,000 worm species squirming in the soil around the world, and […]

Post-JCPOA, era of work: Dy Min.

TEHRAN, May 08 (Shana) – Deputy Iranian Minister of Petroleum in International Affairs and Trading Amir Hossein Zamaninia says the removal of sanctions and implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) bring foreign companies to Iran, opening up an era of hard work for the Iranian people. Amir Hossein Zamaninia, addressing an investment […]

Rising terror threat casts doubt on US-led coalition’s effectiveness in Iraq – Russia’s UN envoy

Speaking at Friday’s UN Security Council meeting on Iraq, Russia’s Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, commended the Iraqi government’s efforts in combatting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), while questioning the role of the international coalition under the leadership of US forces, which he said has not achieved any feasible progress on the ground so […]

Ragnarök: The Twilight of the Gods

By Arthur Guiterman HO! Heimdal sounds the Gjallar-horn: The hosts of Hel rush forth And Fenris rages redly From his shackles in the North Unleashed is Garm, and Lok is loosed, And freed is Giant Rime; The Rainbow-bridge is broken By the hordes of Muspelheim. The wild Valkyries ride the wind With spear and clanging shield […]

DNA discovery unearths ‘unknown chapter in human history’ in Europe 15,000 years ago

From: independent.co.uk Scientists studying the DNA of ancient Europeans found evidence of a ‘major population upheaval’ at the end of the last Ice Age A major and unexplained population shift occurred in Europe around 15,000 years ago when local hunter-gatherers were almost completely replaced by a group from another area, scientists […]

Texas Cops at Risk of Losing Homes Through Federal Forfeiture Laws Over Illegal Online Gambling Scheme Netting Millions

Houston police officers Steve Glezman and Brian Jordan have both been in the police force for over 20 years. The two men were relieved of duty in May under mysterious circumstances with police only saying they were being investigated for “alleged criminal activity.” They retired shortly after to ensure their pensions would start paying. […]

BEST OF THE WEB: Now its Israel’s turn to open its nuclear program to IAEA inspection, or face sanctions

     Iran has currently met its obligations to the IAEA under the 2015 US-­led agreement with the UN and now IT is the time for Israel to submit its nuclear program to UNSC inspection or face international sanctions. The imperative is for: 1. The Negev Nuclear Research Center at Dimona to be fully opened to […]

Globalization and Neoliberal Policies. Are there Alternatives to Plundering the Earth, Making War and Destroying the Planet?

This article by renowned author and political scientist Professor Claudia von Werlhof was first published by GR in 2008. Are there alternatives to plundering the earth, making war and destroying the planet This text is based on a panel presentation together with Ferdinand Lacina, former Austrian Minister of Finance and Ewald Nowotny, President of the […]

UK GOES FULL ORWELL: GOVERNMENT TO TAKE CHILDREN AWAY FROM PARENTS IF THEY MIGHT BECOME RADICALIZED

If there are two edicts I try to follow whenever I’m writing, they are, first, write what is true and, second, avoid cliche at all costs. I bring that up only as a preface before saying the following: the UK is walking down an Orwellian path. It’s nearly the cliche of cliches to […]

Austerity and Runaway Inequality Lead to Violence And Instability

Washington’s BlogAug 14, 2011 A study this month by economists Hans-Joachim Voth and Jacopo Ponticelli showsthat – from 1919 to the present – austerity has increased the risk of violence and instability: Does fiscal consolidation lead to social unrest? From the end of the Weimar Republic in Germany in the 1930s to anti-government demonstrations in Greece […]

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