Tag Archives: austerity
Building the Democratic Economy from Preston UK to Cleveland OH, The Laura Flanders Show
Alternative economy with community health and wealth building
CLIMATE CHANGE, MILITARISM AND WAR (Video)
The Paris talks signalled an important change in the climate movement as thousands of activists gathered from all over the world to organise global action.
Flowers and Zeese | Visions For The Future
We’ve seen time and again that when people lead, the leaders follow.
Henry A. Giroux | America’s Addiction to Terrorism
Giroux discusses torture, militarisation, surveillance, racism, education and austerity … and draws the links to the military-industrial-academic complex.
John Pilger | A Blow for Peace and Democracy: Why the British Said No to Europe
The pith helmets may have long gone, but the blood has never dried. A nineteenth century contempt for countries and peoples, depending on their degree of colonial usefulness, remains a centrepiece of modern “globalisation”, with its perverse socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor–
Flowers and Zeese | Brexit Backlash Against EU, A Revolt Against Elites
The Brexit vote showed how out of touch the elites are with the lives of the people in England. They are unaware how austerity, unfair incomes and lack of wealth makes life unbearable for many. The same is true throughout the globalized economy, which is rigged for the 1% around the world.
Noam Chomsky: My Hopes for the Future
Destruction of ISIS by any means that can be imagined might lay the basis for something worse, as has been happening quite regularly with military intervention. The state system in the region imposed by French and British imperial might after World War I, with little concern for the populations under their control, is unraveling.
Truthdig: 442 Mental Health Experts Call for an End to Austerity
Counsellors and psychotherapists in the public and private sectors find themselves at the coalface in responding to the effects of austerity politics on the emotional state of the nation [Great Britain]. By Alexander Reed Kelly truthdig.com April 19, 2015 potamos.photography (CC BY-ND 2.0) Austerity cuts and “neoliberal thinking” among policymakers are having a “profoundly […]
▶ Noam Chomsky: Snowden & Chomsky, ISIS, Iraq War, U.S. Terrorism, U.S. Slavery, Venezuela, Greece, Spain
Democracy Now! interviews Noam Chomsky: A series of video vignettes on a range of current issues. DemocracyNow.org March 3, 2015 Click the the title link below each photo to watch the video. Noam Chomsky: To Deal with ISIS, U.S. Should Own Up to Chaos of Iraq War & Other Radicalizing Acts Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise […]
Robert Hunziker: Revolutions Start in the Streets!
“The target of this continent-wide discontent is neoliberalism’s self-serving paternalistic policies of privatization, reduced government, and dependence upon the “free market” as the arbiter of socio-economic justice but it’s turning sour because so few attain millions at the direst expense of way too many.”
Henry A. Giroux | Authoritarianism, Class Warfare and the Advance of Neoliberal Austerity Policies
The stories that now dominate the European and North American landscape are not about economic reform; instead, they embody what stands for common sense among market and religious fundamentalists in a number of mainstream political parties: shock-and-awe austerity measures; tax cuts that serve the rich and powerful, and destroy government programs that help the disadvantaged, elderly and sick; attacks on women’s reproductive rights; attempts to suppress voter ID laws and rig electoral college votes; full-fledged assaults on the environment; the militarization of everyday life; the destruction of public education, if not critical thought itself; and an ongoing attack on unions, social provisions, and the expansion of Medicaid and meaningful health care reform.
Cartoon: Making A Point
(Click to enlarge) dailykos.com June 18, 2014 Relevant article showing photos of the London spikes here. Apparently the number of homeless there is increasing: Katharine Sacks-Jones, head of policy and campaigns at Crisis, said: “This is happening in a context where rough sleeping has gone up massively. Over the last three years rough sleeping has risen […]
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