Universal Credit – internationally “unique” in its harshness, and headed for 7 million of us
Universal Credit – internationally “unique” in its harshness, and headed for 7 million of us
by Ian Sinclair
Open Democracy
1 November 2017
Universal Credit – internationally “unique” in its harshness, and headed for 7 million of us
by Ian Sinclair
Open Democracy
1 November 2017
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Both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have strongly endorsed people exchanges [Xinhua]
Answering the call for greater intercultural exchanges between citizens of BRICS countries at the last Summit in Xiamen, Chinese and Russian cities are examining ways to establish visa-free travel between them.
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Having successfully established Lenin and Trotsky, Wall Street’s chosen men, to lead the Bolshevik Revolution, William Thompson returned to the …Continue reading →
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If you want to know just how sorry relations in between Russia and the United States have become, look for the current Ambassador to Russia. America’s closest connect with Moscow via appointment by President Donald Trump, Jon Huntsman Jr. is the son of billionaire businessman Jon Huntsman Sr. of the Huntsman Corporation. I’ll wager very few reading this will have ever heard of Huntsman. So, let me introduce you to U.S. détente in the Trump era.
The threat of mass famine in Yemen is as real as ever — in spite of the reopening of the port of Aden and the Wadea land crossing on the Saudi-Yemen border. This is not enough, according to the UN Office of Humanitarian Aid (OCHA). The blockade of all ports especially Hodeida should be lifted immediately. Most humanitarian aid[Read More...]
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In this sobering exclusive analysis for INSURGE, Professor Ugo Bardi dissects historical statistics on war to unpick the patterns of violence of the past and uncover what this says about the present — and our coming future. He warns that statistical data suggests we are on the brink of heading into another round of major wars resulting, potentially, in mass deaths on a[Read More...]
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Nabil Ayouch’s films stay with us long after the lights have ceased to flicker on celluloid. His stark, intimate and deeply affecting portraits of Moroccan life have won him the admiration of cineastes around the world. Never one to back down from unsparing and often transgressive critiques of his native Morocco, Ayouch’s films have attracted their fair share of controversy,[Read More...]
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Skådespelaren Sanna Sundquist som Antigone.På Dramaten spelas nu den klassiska tragedin Antigone av Sofokles. Filosofiska rummet sänder ett samtal med gäster inför publik på nationalscenen.Den mångbottnade och nästan 2500 år gamla tragedin Antigone sätts ständigt upp på världens scener och har tolkats av filosofer som Heidegger och Hegel och psykoanalytiker som Freud. Den har också tolkats feministiskt. Den upproriska Antigone som trycks ner av den patriarkala makten och går i döden efter att ha trotsat kung Kreons självsvåldiga styre.
Summing up the recent events in the Middle East leads to the conclusion that the threat of a Saudi-Iranian war is looking increasingly credible as tensions rise in the Middle East.
The film presents perspectives favourable to GMOs at every turn, through error or omission, even where the majority of the science contradicts the film’s perspectives
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...Intense anti-Russian sentiment in America risks the unthinkable – possible catastrophic nuclear war, humanity’s survival at stake.
Apropos of today's main blog, Mr. G.B. shared this intriguing article:
“Quark Fusion” Produces Eight Times More Energy Than Nuclear Fusion…
The post TIDBIT: QUARK FUSION appeared first on Giza Death Star.
Mr. M.D. spotted this one, and it's a "fun" one... maybe. During "routine maintenance" at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the lead shielding around the…
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The Silk Road, renamed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is developing infrastructure along land and sea trade routes. However, little is known about China’s initiative in the Arctic Circle, which represents a new route that Beijing is now able to develop thanks to technology together with the strategic partnership with Russia.
The United States cannot do much capacity building in nations such as Niger. The country’s military forces will fight ISIS once they have a firsthand experience of what that is like, in their own ways.
Lilleberedsmonstret från 1668.Följ med Tobias Svanelid till 1600-talets monster - till grisar med människohuvud och fruktade sjöodjur. Monster som upplyste mer än de skrämde äldre tiders svenskar, menar forskarna.Dagens kroppsideal var fjärran 1600-talets. Under den tidigmoderna tiden betraktades exempelvis monster och extraordinära människokroppar med ett nyfiket intresse och med beundran. Tobias Svanelid träffar idéhistorikern Maja Bondestam och sjömonsterforskaren Philippa Hellawell för att diskutera historiska monster.
Lilleberedsmonstret från 1668.Följ med Tobias Svanelid till 1600-talets monster - till grisar med människohuvud och fruktade sjöodjur. Monster som upplyste mer än de skrämde äldre tiders svenskar, menar forskarna.Dagens kroppsideal var fjärran 1600-talets. Under den tidigmoderna tiden betraktades exempelvis monster och extraordinära människokroppar med ett nyfiket intresse och med beundran. Tobias Svanelid träffar idéhistorikern Maja Bondestam och sjömonsterforskaren Philippa Hellawell för att diskutera historiska monster.
Nazareth: The scandal surrounding Priti Patel, who was forced to resign as Britain’s international aid minister last week after secret meetings with Israeli officials during a “family holiday”, offers a small, opaque window on the UK’s powerful Israel lobby. Patel’s off-the-books meetings with 12 Israelis, including prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, were organised by a British lobbyist in violation of[Read More...]
The bottom half of humans own next to nothing, but they own as much as the world’s richest 80 individuals do, because though the bottom half are poor, there are 3.79 billion of them.
“Be proud you’re an Indian, but be careful who you tell.” — from the documentary Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page really got rocked the first time he heard Link Wray’s Rumble. A lot of people did, musicians and others. In fact, you could say it was what the monolith was to those primates in the “Dawn of Man” segment[Read More...]
Co-Written By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese The climate crisis is upon us. It seems that every report on climate conditions has one thing in common: things are worse than predicted. The World Meteorological Report from the end of October shows that Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) are rising at a rapid rate and have passed 400 parts per million. According to Dr. Kevin[Read More...]
It was as dreary as listening to the formulaic assessments of political economy by an unreconstructed Leninist. But Sunday morning with Steve Ciobo, Australia’s trade minister, was such an occasion. The Trans-Pacific Partnership, withering away on the branch of false optimism, has been an instrument of deserved suspicion and opprobrium from popular movements across countries suspicious about the paternalistic follies[Read More...]
19th Century witnessed many revolutions in the realm social movements and theories. The ordinary people, the working population, the wretched of the earth [Fanon] who entered in the arena of political theory through Rousseau in the 18th century found a profound spokesperson in the genius of Karl Marx in the 19thcentury. Marx, as a student of jurisprudence, history and philosophy, at a time when[Read More...]
This lecture by Mirza Yawar Baig is take on India as it is today and the challenges that face us in the immediate future. He says “It is my address to my fellow citizens to say that it is time we accepted the role of citizenship and understand that it means to take responsibility for the welfare of our nation[Read More...]
This paper looks into the food security and nutrition security situation in Gaza Strip, and
possible consequences on adolescents' growth and development.
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim Saturday (Nov 11) denied Turkey’s involvement in an alleged plot involving former U.S security adviser Michael Flynn to kidnap U.S.-based controversial cleric Fetullah Gulen, allegedly behind last year’s coup attempt to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Extraditing Gulen is a major priority for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In an interview with CNN television host Fareed[Read More...]
“Why aren’t they screaming?” — from Philip Larkin’s The Old Fools The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is typically taken by students some time during their last two years in high school. It purports to assess how well test takers solve problems. However, the Big Problem for the students — for us all, truth be told — is that no[Read More...]
Regarding any order to invade and or kill in another country: “An order which is unlawful not only does not need to be obeyed but obeying such an order can result in criminal prosecution of the one who obeys it. Military courts have long held that military members are accountable for their actions even while following orders — if the[Read More...]
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Women writers on peace and war
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Isabella Valancy Crawford
The Forging of the Sword
At the forging of the Sword –
The mountain roots were stirr’d,
Like the heart-beats of a bird;
Like flax the tall trees wav’d,
Les temps deviennent de plus en plus dur pour la Liberté d’expression ; en voici un nouvel exemple.
Dans le Marianne de cette semaine, Manuel Valls indique qu’il se démène pour censurer l’universitaire Pascal Boniface, ainsi que l’Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques (Iris, qui est un des grands think tanks français travaillant sur les thématiques géopolitiques et stratégiques ; il est dirigé par Pascal Boniface), pour raison idéologiques :
Originally posted at TomDispatch. As you read today’s piece by historian and TomDispatch regular Alfred McCoy, author most recently of In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power, think of Afghanistan as the gateway drug for three Washington administrations. Within weeks of the 9/11 attacks, George W. Bush … Continue reading "Washington’s Drug of Choice in the War on Terror"
Dear Readers, I write this under great duress, and against my better judgment: it has never been my policy to mix my personal life and my writing/professional life. This time, however, I don’t see how I can avoid it. My regular readers will have noticed that I’ve skipped more than a couple of columns recently, … Continue reading "I Will Survive"