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Navigating Egypt’s Revolutionary Crisis As chaos again envelopes Egypt, the revolution is evolving in new directions, along contradictory and confusing channels. It’s tempting to immediately support the “opposition” to the Muslim Brotherhood’s apparent “power grab,” but the situation in Egypt is more complex. The recent events in Egypt are not simply signs of a healthy revolution, they include immediate dangers....
Posted: Tue, Dec 11, 2012 9:14pm PST
Make Your Own Gifts at Oakland Makerspace Winter Make-a-Thon (audio/mpeg 7.2MB) Kate Raphael of KPFA Women's Magazine talks with Jen-Mei Wu, one of the founders of Liberating Ourselves Locally, East Oakland's women- and people-of-color led maker space....
Posted: Sun, Dec 9, 2012 2:21pm PST
Why UN Climate Agreements Fail History will undoubtedly deliver the harshest condemnations of the UN climate talks currently underway in Doha, Qatar. But the conference was laughable before it began; the inept “goals” of the talks stand in tragic-comic opposition to what we already know about climate change — that the climate has already changed in profound ways and its trajectory spells doom for civilization if drastic, coordinated steps are not taken in the immediate future....
Posted: Mon, Dec 3, 2012 6:56pm PST
Austerity — the 1%’s Global Battle Cry Whether we are left with the Fiscal Cliff or a Grand Bargain, workers in the U.S. face massive cuts to programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, unemployment insurance, Food Stamp assistance and other needed social safety nets. This is an example of “austerity” which has largely been pursued in the U.S. until now, on a statewide and local level....
Posted: Thu, Nov 29, 2012 5:42am PST
WalMart fire in Bangladesh kills 117 workers 
117 dead in Bangladesh as WalMart clothing factory burns. In these photos taken by citizens of Dhaka, we see relatives mourning the charred remains of the dead. Some had jumped from windows to escape the uncontrolled blaze.The scope of the disaster approaches the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911, where 146 died in the worst factory fire ever, in an almost identical scenario. Even today, the death toll continues to rise. Subsequent reports have noted clothing made for Sears and Disney...
Posted: Wed, Nov 28, 2012 9:36am PST
The Walmart Strike has spread to 100 cities! 
The good news has gotten better for all workers in the United States....
Posted: Sat, Nov 24, 2012 3:07pm PST
Diamonds hammered to dust in disgust at jewellers bankrolling Israeli wear crimes 
On Saturday 24th November at 14:30 pm on Grafton Street, Dublin, Anne Clinton, a human rights activist from Limerick, will use a hammer to pulverise the diamond jewellery she got from her husband years ago in a public display of her outrage at jewellers for bankrolling Israeli war crimes in Gaza....
Posted: Fri, Nov 23, 2012 4:33pm PST
Downward Spiral To Krugman, the increasing "ideological blindness" of German politicians can only be explained by their belief "that hard times must be the necessary punishment for earlier excesses." That the hard times and excesses do not concern the same people is overlooked by Krugman. For more than thirty years, the world economy was only kept going by (state and private) contracted debts. An ever smaller part of the worldwide labor force is enough to produce for everyone. The struggle over competitivene...
Posted: Fri, Nov 23, 2012 9:08am PST
Philippine campaign against high electricity rates snowballs 
QUEZON CITY, Philippines – Thousands of electricity consumers from 55 cities and municipalities from 15 provinces and 10 regions are expected to stage a multi-form protest on November 22, dubbed as “National Day of Action against Epira (Electric Power Industry Reform Act), high electricity rates and privatization of the power industry.”...
Posted: Thu, Nov 22, 2012 5:51pm PST
Hurricane Sandy's Austerity Lessons 
While surely unintentional, this natural disaster has afforded those affected by it a small taste of how countless others around the rest of the world live – and many not just during a crisis, but on a regular basis....
Posted: Tue, Nov 20, 2012 5:11pm PST
The Tragic Truth About the State of Israel ISRAEL IS NOT THE GOOD GUY IN THE MIDDLE EAST...
Posted: Tue, Nov 20, 2012 4:12pm PST
“IMF is dead, a walking dead” - FDC Philippines 
MANILA, Philippines – As the first female chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) visited the country for the first time and met with Pres. Benigno S. Aquino III Friday morning, debt watchdog Freedom from Debt Coalition staged a protest near the Malacañan Palace, in solidarity with the peoples of the Eurozone....
Posted: Tue, Nov 20, 2012 5:19am PST
Economists Argue over Distribution Question More and more economists take distribution questions seriously. When inequality becomes too great in a national economy, the economy becomes unstable. Liberalization of the financial markets roused the spiral of indebtedness. Private indebtedness and income inequality massively increased in the US of the 1920s-as before 2007. The financial markets almost completely uncoupled from the real economy, economist Michael Hudson said....
Posted: Mon, Nov 19, 2012 6:35am PST
Solidarity against austerity spreads across Europe on N14 
(INDYRADIO 11-14-2012) Europe ground to a halt at the start of business today as strikes and protests engulfed 23 nations.In Portugal, the Financial Times reports 200 flights have been cancelled. In Italy, even the Fascists are protesting austerity. Meanwhile in Greece, attacks by Fascists against left wing protests have been reported and water cannon are being used to quell riots as the country devolves into chaos. A map of the protests that were planned for today is being updated in real ti...
Posted: Wed, Nov 14, 2012 4:49am PST
Face Plants, Headlocks and Surges For a couple of decades the numbers of private security contractors and private intelligence contractors handling matters related to the national security of the United States of America have been rising rapidly. The amount we currently rely on them has been the cause of worry for many people looking in from the outside. For those on the inside, it has been a relationship that has caused true public servants to be concerned, while those looking to eventually profit financially from either t...
Posted: Tue, Nov 13, 2012 8:28am PST
Will the Democrats Tax the Rich to Avoid the Fiscal Cliff? Literally the day after the election a sudden “urgency” gripped the nation: the imminent danger of the so-called “fiscal cliff” — the national automatic tax increases and spending cuts due in January. The media screamed that the suddenly approaching fiscal cliff would trigger a recession, forcing Democrats and Republicans to consider a “grand bargain” budget deal to avoid disaster....
Posted: Mon, Nov 12, 2012 4:50am PST
Social Media Censored in Kashmir (audio/mpeg 30.9MB) On Kashmir Speaks on KPFA Mohammed Junaid, a Kashmiri anthropologist living in New York, discusses how the Indian authorities suppress social media in Kashmir. Mohammed Junaid goes on to discuss the impact of social media on the nonviolent independence movement in Kashmir. Then Naima Shalhoub, Oakland based singer and song writer, performs her song dedicated to the people of Kashmir. Naima Shalhoub discusses her inspiration for the song. 33 min....
Posted: Fri, Nov 9, 2012 4:32pm PST
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