Driven to Consumption and Money out of Nothing Growth originally created a material prosperity about which earlier generations could only dream. However, more economic growth does not lead to people being happier anymore. We are prisoners of a system that forces us to permanent growth. Banks create credits at the touch of a button, wages stagnate, schools decay and Goldman Sachs is in the government. Who benefits from this?...
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 4:48AM
The Shortwave Report 12/07/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Spanish National Radio, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, and Sputnik Radio....
Posted: Thu Dec 6, 2018 5:02PM
G20 Discusses Preventing Financial Crisis and Small Island Economie President Trump arrived in Buenos Aires on Thursday for the annual G20 meetings....
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2018 7:18AM
The Shortwave Report 11/30/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Spanish National Radio, Sputnik Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, NHK World Radio Japan, and Radio Deutsche-Welle...
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2018 4:36PM
Debt and Tax Policies Needed to Prevent Crisis Says Finance Watchdog Group Financial institutions, experts and economists fear a new wave of financial crises hitting countries from Ghana to Italy....
Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2018 6:49AM
The Shortwave Report 11/23/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Havana Cuba, Spanish National Radio, and Sputnik Radio....
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 11:46PM
Trump Accomplice To Murder-Still Doing Damage Control For Khashoggi Murderers President Trump is still doing damage control for the Saudi royal family prince that were personally involved in this assassination in Instanbul, Turkey of Amal Khashoggi...
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2018 12:39PM
In the wake of Bolsonaro's election victory... "It’s a shame that the Brazilian cavalry hasn’t been as efficient as the Americans, who exterminated the [U.S.] Indians" – Jair Bolsonaro, President-elect of Brazil...
Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2018 10:52PM
December 10, 2018: Call for a Transnational Day of Action A call for a transnational day of action on December 10, 2018 was published on Indymedia Athens, on November 9, 2018, by anarchists, libertarians, anarcho-syndicalists, autonomous and anti-authoritarians from several regions of the world (Greece, France, Argentina, Spain, Algeria, Italy, Mexico, Belgium, Canada, Germany.
https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1592897
(English - French - Eλληνικά - Español - Deutsch - Português – Italiano - Românesc)...
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:47AM
The Shortwave Report 11/16/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Havana Cuba, Sputnik Radio, and Spanish National Radio....
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 4:21PM
The Shortwave Report 11/09/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Deutsche-Welle, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, and Sputnik Radio....
Posted: Thu Nov 8, 2018 5:13PM
Iraqi Artist Will Exhibit for First Time in Cuba The artist of Iraqi origin and Dutch nationality Athar Jaber, will be exhibiting for the first time in Cuba, as part of the program of the 13th Belgian Week in Havana, the organizers announced at a press conference....
Posted: Wed Nov 7, 2018 1:39AM
The Shortwave Report 11/02/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK Japan, Sputnik Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, and Spanish National Radio....
Posted: Thu Nov 1, 2018 4:51PM
Right-wing Populism: A Wave of Nostalgia For decades, western societies were marked by pluralization, individualization, and liberalization. Why are attitudes and pressures of society against these trends becoming dominant? Why are escalating inequalities leading to the rise of right-wing parties and not primarily to renewed capitalism criticism? Right-wing populism is anti-liberal....
Posted: Thu Nov 1, 2018 3:58AM
Death by Facebook Brazil has elected Jair Bolsonaro President, a man who praises torture, says he'll end all activism and threatens to kill 30,000 leftists. How could this insanity happen?!?!
Facebook....
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 3:07AM
Democracy in the Madhouse With unprecedented attention on the US midterms, democracy's origins should be considered to help explain and accept next week's outcomes. Note: democracy's origins are as suspect as its results....
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:19AM
What Can Destroy Enclosure? The entire world now lives in a totalitarian capitalist police state. This system is more generally called Enclosure. It is far more repressive than life under fuedalism was and ever could have been. What could possibly bring about the end of this epoch of human slavery and elite rule?...
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 5:49AM
The Shortwave Report 10/26/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Spanish National Radio, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, and Sputnik Radio....
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2018 4:31PM
Oversight Board Reviews New Fiscal Plan for Puerto Rico Puerto Rico's oversight board reviews a new plan on economic growth and debt payments to the island's creditors in San Juan today....
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2018 10:15AM
Oakland and San Francisco Named As Human Rights Violators The Oakland conditions of discrimination and harassment of unhoused encampment residents and punitive denials of access to basic services constitute “cruel and inhuman treatment and is a violation of multiple human rights…"...
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2018 3:57PM