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- Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the US government of covering up the extent of waterboarding at secret CIA prisons, alleging that Libyan opponents of Muammar Gaddafi were subjected to the torture before being handed over to the former dictator’s security police. The report, Delivered into Enemy Hands: US-Led Abuse and Rendition of Opponents to Gaddafi’s Libya, also says that the CIA, Britain’s MI6 and other western intelligence services were responsible for “delivering Gaddafi his enemies on a silver platter” by sending the captured men to Tripoli for further abuse after the American interrogations. After four decades of dictatorship, Libya held its first national elections. Yet its transition into a law-respecting state has been bloody, with rights violations committed by all parties. Thousands of people are held in illegal detention facilities without any judicial process. Ill treatment, torture, and even killings in custody are a sad reality. Tens of thousands of displaced Libyans languish in camps around the country, many of whom have been unlawfully forcibly displaced from their homes. The transitional authorities, who ruled after Gadaffi’s fall, have failed to rein in the militias that de facto control the country, whose crimes have gone unpunished.
- Peace accord signed at Lomnin, without an agreement on wages! Will the workers sign or continue to strike? The accord commits the strikers to return to work by Monday and the Lonmin mine to negotiate the workers R12 500 pay demand. The accord also states that peace should prevail during negotiations and that peace and stability at the mine should be restored. The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, AMCU, did not sign the peace accord, but their representatives were present. Miners say they will not go back to work until their demand for the salary-hike has been met. The chamber of mines believes the R12 500 salary demand by striking miners at Marikana is unreasonable. The miners are being supported by Methodist Minister Paul Verryn, a former anti-apartheid campaigner, who said their call to be paid 12,500 rand (1,200 euros) per month was fair. “I actually think by comparison towards what some people in this mine are earning, and some of the investors are earning from what is coming from this mine, R12.5 is reasonable,” he said.
- The world rembers the young South African Steve Biko, who was killed because he fought for a non-racistic world: Qutes: “So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior. The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”
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One quarter of Liberian land has been sold to logging companies in just two years, threatening the country with widespread devastation, according to a report. A new spate of logging contracts in Liberia – the most heavily forested country in west Africa – means that 40% of its forests are under private ownership and risk being flattened by logging companies, says the report. The report, by environmental watchdogs Global Witness, Save My Future Foundation and the Sustainable Development Institute, claimed PUPs had been given to private companies without consulting local groups and in some cases using forged documents. “People being defrauded out of their forest rights at this speed and scale is worrying in itself. When you look at who the forests have been given to, it gets even more alarming,” said Jonathan Gant, of Global Witness. “Giving your forests to companies like that is not a sustainable investment.”However, land reform – one of the issues identified by Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report as a cause of the war – has not yet happened, and is regarded as a threat to peace in the country.
Liberia has sold quarter of its land to logging companies, says report Campaigners claim forests are under threat as landowners enter into deals with logging firms, bypassing sustainability laws Share9 Email Afua Hirsch, west Africa correspondent guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 4 September 2012 10.31 BST … Continue reading
Eurozone crisis live: Moody’s cuts European Union rating outlook to negative LIVEGermany, France, the UK and the Netherlands could stop fulfilling their obligations to the EU if the crisis worsens, Moody’s warns
Moody’s cuts EU credit rating outlook Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of Europe’s debt crisis. Overnight, ratings agency Moody‘s has lowered its outlook on the European Union’s AAA rating to negative, from stable, which is the first step towards … Continue reading
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Tunisia leads the fight against ‘odious debts’ – Since mid-2012 Tunisia is back in the headlines again. This time, the country is catching the media’s attention because of the tough stance taken by the new Government demanding the repudiation of debts that served the interests of the former ruling clique. In signaling such a stand, the new Tunisian government is setting a historic precedent in Africa that would serve the interests of not only the people of indebted African nations but also those of Africa’s creditors and donors.
Tunisia leads the fight against ‘odious debts’ September 4, 2012 by Professor Léonce Ndikumana, Director of the Africa Policy Program at PERI, University of Massachusetts, Amherst USA; nominated to the U.N. Committee for Development Policy. The regime change in Tunisia … Continue reading
Socialist International Congress in Cape Town: President of Socialist International, George Papandreou says: “We want to regulate tax havens. Tax havens are basically robbing people, robbing countries of resources that they own. There are huge amounts of money, $21 trillion in tax havens.””The voice of the Socialist International must be heard today more than any other time before, particularly, because of the challenges that face the world today – on matters of governance, on matters of rights of people, on matters of democracy, on matters of economic development and indeed on matters of poverty, inequality and unemployment that face the world,” says South African President Zuma.
Zuma urges Socialist International Congress to be more active Saturday 1 September 2012 17:05 SABC South Africa’s President, Jacob Zuma.(SABC) TAGS: Jacob Zuma Socialist International Congress Cape Town Cape Town International Convention Centre Leadership Governance Democracy Economic Development Poverty Inequality … Continue reading
Spanish ‘Robin Hood’: “This is the biggest rip-off in the history of capitalism,” said Gordillo. “The banks created huge amounts of private debt which went toxic. Now they are using public money, taken from the poor, to rescue them. That is what the cuts to health and education are about. “We want to show that this crisis has a human face. People are losing everything – their jobs, their homes, and some don’t even have enough to eat.” “The situation is critical and I think there is now a chance of change. The system cannot resolve people’s problems,” said Gordillo. Him and his marchers cross Andalucía, watched by wary police – Gordillo’s reputation as a modern-day Robin Hood has grown this summer after a series of “workers’ marches” across southern Andalucía saw followers raid food from two supermarkets and hand it to the poor. Flash occupations of bank branches and an empty luxury country hotel have kept his small Andalucian Workers’ Union in the headlines as debate rages about a style of direct action that attracts those seeking radical change to Spain’s current diet of soaring unemployment, recession and harsh austerity.
Spanish ‘Robin Hood’ marchers cross Andalucía, watched by wary police Charismatic mayor Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo and supporters meet mixed reactions after supermarket raids Share5 Email Giles Tremlett in Albolote guardian.co.uk, Friday 31 August 2012 13.58 BST Jump to comments (…) Juan Manuel … Continue reading
The Chicagoplan: At the height of the Great Depression a number of leading U.S. economists advanced a proposal for monetary reform that became known as the Chicago Plan. It envisaged the separation of the monetary and credit functions of the banking system, by requiring 100% reserve backing for deposits. Irving Fisher (1936) claimed the following advantages for this plan: (1) Much better control of a major source of business cycle fluctuations, sudden increases and contractions of bank credit and of the supply of bank-created money. (2) Complete elimination of bank runs. (3) Dramatic reduction of the (net) public debt. (4) Dramatic reduction of private debt, as money creation no longer requires simultaneous debt creation. We study these claims by embedding a comprehensive and carefully calibrated model of the banking system in a DSGE model of the U.S. economy. We find support for all four of Fisher’s claims. Furthermore, output gains approach 10 percent, and steady state inflation can drop to zero without posing problems for the conduct of monetary policy.
At the height of the Great Depression a number of leading U.S. economists advanced a proposal for monetary reform that became known as the Chicago Plan. It envisaged the separation of the monetary and credit functions of the banking system, … Continue reading
By our estimates, at least $21 to $32 trillion as of 2010 has been invested virtually tax-free through the worlds still expanding black hole of more than 80 offshore secrecy jurisdictions. Remember: this is just financial wealth. A big share of the real estate, yachts, racehorses, gold bricks and many other things that count as non financial wealth are also owned via offshore structures where it is impossible to identify the owners. Overall Size a significant fraction of global private financial wealth. We are up against one of societys most well entrenched interest groups. After all, theres no interest group more rich and powerful than the rich and powerful, who are the ultimate subjects of our research.
The Global 1%: Exposing the Transnational Ruling Class: Abstract: This study asks Who are the the world’s 1 percent power elite? And to what extent do they operate in unison for their own private gains over benefits for the 99 percent? We examine a sample of the 1 percent: the extractor sector, whose companies are on the ground extracting material from the global commons, and using low-cost labor to amass wealth. These companies include oil, gas, and various mineral extraction organizations, whereby the value of the material removed far exceeds the actual cost of removal.We also examine the investment sector of the global 1 percent: companies whose primary activity is the amassing and reinvesting of capital. This sector includes global central banks, major investment money management firms, and other companies whose primary efforts are the concentration and expansion of money, such as insurance companies. Finally, we analyze how global networks of centralized power—the elite 1 percent, their companies, and various governments in their service—plan, manipulate, and enforce policies that benefit their continued concentration of wealth and power. We demonstrate how the US/NATO military-industrial-media empire operates in service to the transnational corporate class for the protection of international capital in the world.
The Global 1%: Exposing the Transnational Ruling Class Censored NotebookAug 13, 2012 digg by Peter Phillips and Kimberly Soeiro __________________________ Abstract: This study asks Who are the the world’s 1 percent power elite? And to what extent do they operate in … Continue reading
CORPORATE PROFITS JUST HIT AN ALL-TIME HIGH, WAGES JUST HIT AN ALL-TIME LOW: Wages as a percent of the economy are at an all-time low. This is both cause and effect. One reason companies are so profitable is that they’re paying employees less than they ever have as a share of GDP. And that, in turn, is one reason the economy is so weak: Those “wages” are other companies’ revenue. ~Business Insider Read more: http://www.classwarfareexists.com/corporate-profits-just-hit-an-all-time-high-wages-just-hit-an-all-time-low/#ixzz23w4qoeCZ Follow us: classwarfareexists on Facebook
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Watch report: Food-prices might explode and might cost many more lives: Mankind has to react: Exceptionally hot, dry weather has been making headlines, notably for the effect on grain crops, causing the prices of these commodities to soar. French television France 2 reported on the United States. The high price of grain can have dramatic results. Swiss television reported on a system that tries to compensate.
Exceptionally hot, dry weather has been making headlines, notably for the effect on grain crops, causing the prices of these commodities to soar. French television France 2 reported on the United States. The high price of grain can have dramatic … Continue reading
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