quote:Timothy Snyder: Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin
Snyders thesis is that the 'bloodlands', a region which comprised what is modern-day Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and the Baltic states, is the area where the regimes of Stalin and Hitler, despite their conflicting goals, interacted to increase suffering and bloodshed many times worse than any seen in western history.
quote:Where they (Nazi-German en USSR) cannot agree, is Ukraine. Both imperial visions, both ideologies, as they are put into practice, depend upon controle of Ukraine. It is therefore impossible for them to agree about Ukraine. It is therefore not suprising that Ukraine is the central theater of the war. Ukraine is where more people died than anywhere else. Ukraine is where the Holocaust begins. Ukraine is where famine is, and so on (35:10 - 35:32).
Het doet mij denken aan.quote:Rus krijgt verknipt beeld Oekraïne
"In Oekraïne heeft een fascistische staatsgreep plaatsgevonden. De hoofdstad Kiev is goeddeels in de as gelegd. Gewapende bendes zwerven er door de straten. De staat is geïmplodeerd en de politie is machteloos. Ultranationalistische strijdgroepen trekken op naar de Russisch-sprekende oostelijke delen van Oekraïne en de Krim om ieder verzet de kop in te drukken. Tienduizenden vluchtelingen trekken de grens over om in Rusland een veilig heenkomen te zoeken."
quote:The Panama Deception
The Panama Deception gaat over de ware redenen achter de Amerikaanse invasie in Panama in 1989. Hoewel de oorspronkelijke motivatie de bescherming van Amerikaanse militairen en het herstel van democratie heette, wilde de Verenigde Staten in werkelijkheid haar regelgeving met harde hand doorvoeren in het Centraal-Amerikaanse land, nadat Manuel Noriega onbruikbaar werd. In plaats van op de indertijd gemaakte mediaverslaggeving, baseert The Panama Deception zich met name op getuige-verslaggeving en deskundigen. Er is ruim aandacht voor de media-manipulatie en zelfcensuur die de Amerikaanse bevolking een ander beeld voorschotelde, dan wat er zich in werkelijkheid afspeelde.
quote:The Fog of War
Robert McNamara was Secretary of Defense van de Verenigde Staten onder de presidenten John F. Kennedy en Lyndon B. Johnson. In The Fog of War vertelt hij aan de hand van 'elf geleerde lessen' over de ervaringen en inzichten die hij in functie opdeed. McNamara wordt geïnterviewd en bespreekt hoogte- en dieptepunten, waarbij archiefbeelden ter illustratie dienen. Onder meer zijn rol in de Tweede Wereldoorlog, de Cubacrisis en de Vietnamoorlog komen aan bod.
Laten we hopen van niet.quote:Op dinsdag 11 maart 2014 18:20 schreef deelnemer het volgende:
Voor het geval dat de crisis rond de Krim / Oekraine leidt tot een nieuwe (koude) oorlog, hier vast een korte opfrissing.
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quote:Ameriquest
Ameriquest was founded by Roland Arnall in 1979, in Orange County, California, as a savings and loan association, or thrift, called Long Beach Savings & Loan. The bank moved to Orange County in 1991 and was converted to a pure mortgage lender in 1994, and renamed Long Beach Mortgage Co.
Ameriquest was one of the United States' largest sub-prime mortgage lender until it was shut down in September 2007. Ameriquest originated the stated income loan, which allowed potential borrowers to state their income without any process of verification. Many of these stated income loans were the catalyst to the ultimate failure of Ameriquest itself, and a key factor in the 2007 subprime mortgage financial crisis.
In February 2005, reporters Michael Hudson (reporter) and Scott Reckard broke a story in the Los Angeles Times about “boiler room” sales tactics at Ameriquest. Their investigation found evidence that the lender had in various questionable practices, including “deceiving borrowers about the terms of their loans, forging documents, falsifying appraisals and fabricating borrowers' income to qualify them for loans they couldn't afford.”
Subprime lenders made $587 billion in new mortgages in 2004, up from $390 billion in 2003, according to National Mortgage News. Ameriquest's share of that is estimated at over $50 billion.
Ameriquest Ads: Don't judge too quicklyquote:Roland Arnal becomes ambassador to the Netherlands in 2006
On August 1, 2005, President George W Bush nominated Arnall to become the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands. The Senate approved his nomination on February 9, 2006. Arnall was installed as ambassador on March 8, 2006 when Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands received Arnall's letters of credence.
The One Percentquote:To discuss how the super-rich have willfully confused their self-interest with America's interest, Bill Moyers is joined by Rolling Stone magazine's Matt Taibbi, who regularly shines his spotlight on scandals involving big business and government, and journalist Chrystia Freeland, author of the new book Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else.
Brookings Institution is an american think tankquote:On March 7, Foreign Policy at Brookings hosted a discussion on the crisis in Ukraine, looking at where the crisis might go next and how the U.S. and Europe might respond to and defuse the standoff between Ukraine and Russia.
quote:Sophie Shevardnadze
Sophie Shevardnadze is the granddaughter of former Georgian President and Soviet minister of foreign affairs Eduard Shevardnadze, and was known to join him on some high-level meetings between the Soviets and the Americans when she was in her teens.[3][4] She was born in the Georgian SSR, Soviet Union but moved to France at age 10, then moved to the United States.
Heb je het boek al gelezen?quote:Op vrijdag 18 april 2014 21:50 schreef robin007bond het volgende:
Over het boek van Thomas Piketty, die het denken over ongelijkheid van de afgelopen 200 jaar op zijn kop zet.
Een lange toespraak van hem. Het geluid kraakt eerst, maar als Piketty zelf aan het woord komt niet meer. Het is even wennen aan zijn Franse accent, maar hij heeft bijzonder veel interessante dingen te melden.
Nog een leuk artikel over Piketty in de Guardian, waarin hij pleit voor een toptarief van 80%.
http://www.theguardian.co(...)y-tax-rate-80percent
quote:Nina Khrushcheva is the great-granddaughter of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and a member of the faculty of the Julien J. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs as a scholar of public policy, culture, and media.
quote:Nobel Prize winner and MIT Professor Emeritus Robert M. Solow discusses inequality and equitable growth at the launch of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
Deze documentaire schetst de ontwikkelingen in Oekraine tot en met de geweldadigheden in Mariupol op 9 mei 2014quote:Op vrijdag 30 mei 2014 12:47 schreef Montagui het volgende:
Docu van een half uur over Oekraïne, met vooral de focus 'Right Sector' en de 'Separatisten'.
quote:The use of militarized drones -- flying unmanned aircraft equipped with weaponry -- represents a major shift in the calculus of war and combat. Three leading thinkers debate the perils and promises of drone warfare.
(Begint pas vanaf 5:12 minuten)quote:After Ukraine's decisive election of Petro Poroshenko what next for the country?
Hromadke.TV, in conduction with the AtlanticCouncil, is hosting a special discussion on the future of Ukraine. What steps does Ukraine need to take to fulfill its democratic, free and European dream? And what role can the West play to help Ukrainians move forward.
Hromadske.tv - an initiative of prominent Ukrainian journalists aimed to create a public multimedia platform, which provides unbiased and uncensored information about important social issues based on open editorial policy with transparent funding.
Atlantic Council is a think tank that promotes transatlantic leadership to face global challenges and has played an active role in covering the crisis in Ukraine.
quote:Experts discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and provide recommendations for U.S. policy going forward.
This meeting is part of the "What to Do About" series, which highlights specific issues and features experts who put forward competing analyses and policy prescriptions in a mock high-level U.S. government meeting.
Inleiding overslaan? Zie vanaf 5:25 minuten. En zie ook de discussie na afloop van de presentatie.quote:Like other Asia-Pacific nations, Australia is hopeful that the regional interests of its treaty ally, the United States, and its most important trading partner, China, can be balanced to its own long-term advantage. Professor of Strategic Studies at Australian National University Hugh White has been a leading advocate for the view that Australia cannot hope to maintain a neutral distance between the U.S. and China; it will have to choose between them. His analysis, if correct, holds major implications not only for Australia, China, and the U.S., but for every Asia-Pacific nation.
quote:The Islamic State, a hardline Sunni jihadist group that formerly had ties to al Qaeda, has conquered large swathes of Iraq and Syria. Previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the group has announced its intention to reestablish the caliphate and has declared its leader, the shadowy Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as the caliph.
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