El periodista Bill Moyers de NPR (radio pública de EEUU) y los economistas James Kwak y Simon Johnson discuten si los poderes financieros son, hoy, más rentables y resistentes a la reglamentación que nunca antes.
Moyers: Six Banks Control 60% of Gross National Product -- Is the U.S. at the Mercy of an Unstoppable Oligarchy?
4/27/10
4/4/10
No todos los Tea Parties han sido creados iguales.
Naomi Wolf dice que los Tea Parties han sido una reacción popular a las violaciones constitucionales, al crecimiento desmedido del estatado corporativo y a los amagos de estado policiaco que inició con Bush y que han sido, en parte- aunque más discretamente- mantenidos por Obama. En muchos puntos los sectores conservadores y libertarios de los Tea Parties coinciden con sectores progresistas, como la oposición a una cédula de identidad federal, la suspensión del posse comitatus, el espionaje de ciudadanos, la invocación del privilegio del secreto de estado, las prisiones secretas, etc.
Naomi Wolf Thinks Tea Paties Help to Fight Fascism.
Naomi Wolf Thinks Tea Paties Help to Fight Fascism.
3/5/10
2/10/10
¿Existe un movimiento obrero en Irán?
Del blog Iranian Progressives in Translation:
The formation of workers’ councils after the revolution, made the Islamic Republic realize that the working class had been guided and assisted by various political leftist groups in demanding its rights. These demands naturally created problems for the ruling political establishment. Therefore, the Islamic labor councils were formed to confront these difficulties. These councils were practically tools for the ruling political system to control the working class or to control labor activists.
During the reign of the governments for which Mir-Hossein Mousavi was prime minister [1981-1989 –tr], the independent and semi-independent workers’ councils which had been formed during the honeymoon of the revolution, were completely destroyed. During these same ten years, we saw serious developments on the political scene. With the expropriation or escape of the bourgeoisie, which had risen under the system of monarchy, this class was replaced by another newly rising class. This newly rising class which became well established in the 1990, did not create any improvements in the condition of the working class to advance the workers’ welfare or rights. During the sixteen year period of the governments of Mr. Hashemi Rafsanjani [1989-1997—tr] and Mr. Khatami [1997-2005—tr], despite the ups and downs, the dominant economic outlook was concerned with advancing the upper economic class formed in the 1980s. This outlook set the rules of the game in such a way as to allow for the accumulation of capital by the new class. Only through the “trickling down effect” would other social classes including the working class and the poor benefit.
1/22/10
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