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Deze analyse van de rol van vakbonden bij crisisprotesten in Italie, verscheen op open democracy. Zie het hele verhaal hieronder.

NB: Inmiddels is dit artikel vertaald en op globalinfo.nl verschenen by Edward S. Herman / September 1st, 2012 (bron) During the Vietnam War, a sign over one of the U.S. army bases read “Killing Is Our Business, and Business Is Good.”  Well, it was a very good business in Vietnam (and Cambodia,  Laos, and Korea as well), the number of civilian deaths running into the millions. And it has been quite respectable in the years after Vietnam. The killings have been carried out both directly and via proxies on every continent, as U.S. “national security” has required bases, garrisons, assassinations, invasions, bombing wars, and the sponsorship of  killer regimes, real terror networks, and programs everywhere in response to terrorist threats and challenges to the pitiful giant. Jan Knippers Black pointed out years ago in her great book United States Penetration of Brazil (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977) that “national security” is a wonderfully elastic concept, expanding in accord with “what a nation, class or institution…thinks it should have,” with the result that it is those “whose wealth and power would appear to make them most secure who are, in fact, most paranoid, and who, by their frenetic attempts to ensure their security, bring on their own destruction.” (She was addressing the 1960s Brazilian threat of social democracy and its termination by a U.S.-supported counter-revolution and military dictatorship.) Add to this the search by the vested interests of the military-industrial-complex for missions to justify budget increases, and the mainstream media’s full cooperation in this search, and we have a frightening reality.

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Dit stuk is inmiddels vertaald en op globalinfo.nl gepubliceerd Mexico’s  collapse of 1982, and the radical policy response of the US and IMF,  marked the birth of an elite consensus that continues to haunt Europe  today.

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"We want to be citizens of the world and not its mere inhabitants." A group of leading intellectuals has composed a document arguing that deeper and more extensive forms of democracy are essential to cope with the demands of globalisation and its associated transformations of governance. The document is being launched in a series of international events that begin at the London School of Economics (LSE) on 27 June 2012. It is published here, followed by a list of the fourteen author-signatories (eight of whom are also openDemocracy authors).

International Autonomous Committee:This call is no deep theoretical analysis, nor just a wish for another ruthless riot. In this call, we want to concentrate on the existential crisis of late capitalism, characterized by neoliberalism doctrine and the “no alternative” ideology – and what this can mean for the whole system, that we want to get rid of. We want to take a look at the reactions of this crisis-capitalism: how its supporters want to save it, how the fascist want (again) to benefit of it. Finally, we want to think about our past and present experiences, in order to formulate a radical answer for the liberated society we aim for.Download the german or english or french or greek version and come from the 16th May on to Frankfurt!

Stop the neo-liberal crisis politics – dispossess the beneficiaries!http://www.stop-neoliberal-crises-politics.org/index.php?id=11288&L=2We are experiencing the deepest crisis of capitalism since the great depression of the 30s – and the European governments continue to pour oil on the fires! From the very beginning, some governments have prevented a solidarity-based solution to the crisis in Europe and are significantly responsible for its exacerbation.

Stuk van shift! magazine over de eerste Europese internationale actiedag tegen kapitalisme en crisis. Mocht iemand zich geroepen voelen om te vertalen, zodat het in het Nederlands op globalinfo.nl (en vaak overgenomen door andere sites of bladen) dan graag! (Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken. document.getElementById('cloak597b096f129d0c597f61d3cf90bd8988').innerHTML = ''; var prefix = 'ma' + 'il' + 'to'; var path = 'hr' + 'ef' + '='; var addy597b096f129d0c597f61d3cf90bd8988 = 'info' + '@'; addy597b096f129d0c597f61d3cf90bd8988 = addy597b096f129d0c597f61d3cf90bd8988 + 'globalinfo' + '.' + 'nl'; var addy_text597b096f129d0c597f61d3cf90bd8988 = 'info' + '@' + 'globalinfo' + '.' + 'nl';document.getElementById('cloak597b096f129d0c597f61d3cf90bd8988').innerHTML += ''+addy_text597b096f129d0c597f61d3cf90bd8988+''; )

(NB: Dit interview is inmiddels vertaald en op globalinfo.nl geplaatst) Dancing with Dynamite in Latin America by Nikolas KozloffOriginally published by Huffington Post.February 11, 2011.