Países arrasados pelos "ajustes estruturais" exigidos pelo FMI e Banco Mundial em troca de empréstimos não é novidade nenhuma. Até Portugal já conhece essa experiência. Jamaica é mais um país, que privatizou e abriu o seu mercado para receber uns míseros dólares. O prejuízo a curto prazo foi muito maior que o próprio empréstimo. A sua economia desmoronou.
O que torna este documentário imperdível é o facto de mostrar as táticas e manobras dessas duas instituições - que representam um grupo de banqueiros mundiais - para transformar esses países em lugares cada vez mais miseráveis, para assim levar seus recursos naturais. No caminho colocam os países num ciclo de empréstimo e pagamento de juros, que tende a se eternizar... Todas táticas denunciadas no livro "Confissões de um Assassino Econômico" de John Perkins.
Lundi investigation a diffusé un excellent reportage sur l’origine de la misère qui sévit en Afrique et plus particulièrement au Ghana.
Le système est simple : Le Fond Monétaire International (FMI) octroie des crédits aux états africains, les taux sont évidemment exorbitants, si bien que les gouvernements doivent privatiser dans tous les secteurs afin de rembourser (temporairement) la dette … Les secteurs touchés sont les hôpitaux, le système de santé en général, l’eau potable, l’extraction de minerais, de pétrole, etc …. Au Ghana, la quasi totalité de la production agricole part désormais à l’exportation et le pays importe du riz d’Amérique alors qu’il en exportait il y a seulement 10 ans, les agriculteurs Ghanéens ne comprennent plus le fonctionnement de leur propre pays !
Il y a aussi les entreprises étrangères qui ne sont pas soumises à une réglementation contraignante, si bien qu’elles polluent sans états d’âmes, déchargent leurs rebus sur les terres agricoles, tout est fait afin qu’elles soient le plus rentable possible et ce, au détriment de l’environnement et des populations locales.
C’est là qu’est la formidable arnaque du FMI, car la majorité de la population croient que le FMI vient en aide aux pays pauvres, mais, dans les faits, on observe exactement l’inverse …
Michael Parenti received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad. Some of his writings have been translated into Arabic, Azeri, Bangla, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
"... this tough, hilarious, right-on mix of scholar and street." KPFA-Pacifica, 1994
Michael Parenti has won awards from Project Censored, the Caucus for a New Political Science, the city of Santa Cruz, New Jersey Peace Action, the Social Science Research Council, the Society for Religion in Higher Education, and other organizations. In 2007 he was awarded a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from U.S. Representative Barbara Lee.
During his earlier teaching career he received grants or fellowships from the Louis Rabinowitz Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Brown University, Yale University, State University of New York, and the University of Illinois. For several years he was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.
He now serves on the advisory boards of Independent Progressive Politics Network, Education Without Borders, and the Jasenovic Foundation; as well as the advisory editorial boards of New Political Science and Nature, Society and Thought. He also served for some 12 years as a judge for Project Censored.
He is the author of twenty-three books:
The Face of Imperialism (Paradigm, 2011) God and His Demons (Prometheus Books, 2010) Democracy for the Few (Wadsworth, 9th edition, 2011) Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader (City Lights Books, 2007) Democracy for the Few (Wadsworth, 8th edition, 2007) The Culture Struggle (Seven Stories Press, 2006) Superpatriotism (City Lights Books, 2004) The Assassination of Julius Caesar (The New Press, 2003) The Terrorism Trap (City Lights Books, 2002) To Kill a Nation (Verso Books, 2001) History as Mystery (City Lights Books, 1999) America Besieged (City Lights Books, 1998) Blackshirts and Reds (City Lights Books, 1997) Dirty Truths (City Lights Books, 1996) Against Empire (City Lights Books, 1995) Inventing Reality (Wadsworth, second edition, 1993) Land of Idols (St. Martin's, 1993) Make-Believe Media (Wadsworth, 1992) The Sword and the Dollar (St. Martin's, 1989) Power and the Powerless (St. Martin's, 1978) Ethnic and Political Attitudes (Arno Press, 1975) Trends and Tragedies in American Foreign Policy (Little, Brown, 1971) The Anti-Communist Impulse (Random House, 1969)
Some 320 articles of his have appeared in scholarly journals, political periodicals and various magazines and newspapers.
He appears on radio and television talk shows to discuss current issues and ideas from his published works. Dr. Parenti's talks and commentaries are played on radio stations and cable community access stations to enthusiastic audiences in the United States, Canada, and abroad.
He lectures on college campuses and before a wide range of community audiences, peace groups, labor organizations, scholarly conferences, and various other venues. His books are enjoyed by both lay readers and scholars, and have been used extensively in college courses. Among the many topics he treats are:
Theocracy and Other Religious Sins Democracy and Economic Power Imperialism and U.S. Interventionism Empires, Past and Present Political Perceptions and Deceptions Ethnic-Class Experience Terrorism and Globalization Political Bias in the U.S. News Media Ideology and History Race, Gender, and Class The Overthrow of Communism Fascism: Past and Present
Capitalism
Is The Crisis : Radical Politics in the Age of Austerity examines the
ideological roots of the "austerity" agenda and proposes revolutionary
paths out of the current crisis. The film features original interviews
with Chris Hedges, Derrick Jensen, Michael Hardt, Peter Gelderloos, Leo
Panitch, David McNally, Richard J.F. Day, Imre Szeman, Wayne Price, and
many more!
The 2008 "financial crisis" in the United States was a
systemic fraud in which the wealthy finance capitalists stole trillions
of public dollars. No one was jailed for this crime, the largest theft
of public money in history.
Instead, the rich forced working
people across the globe to pay for their "crisis" through punitive
"austerity" programs that gutted public services and repealed workers'
rights.
Austerity was named "Word of the Year" for 2010.
This
documentary explains the nature of capitalist crisis, visits the
protests against austerity measures, and recommends revolutionary paths
for the future.
Special attention is devoted to the crisis in
Greece, the 2010 G20 Summit protest in Toronto, Canada, and the
remarkable surge of solidarity in Madison, Wisconsin.
"O Capitalismo & Outras Infantilidades" é um documentário que nos convida a olhar de uma forma diferente o mundo em que vivemos e a questionar algumas das mais básicas premissas da vida no sistema capitalista.
Este trabalho apresenta, em linguagem clara e sem jargões económicos ou políticos, as bases sobre as quais se assentam o sistema capitalista.
A razão do sistema capitalista é a busca, a qualquer custo, do lucro das grandes empresas e bancos. Para que uma minoria siga sendo privilegiada, a esmagadora maioria das pessoas é submetida a toda ordem de exploração, como a destruição de direitos, o desemprego, a fome, a miséria, o roubo, etc.
A minoria que comanda o mundo do capital tem nas suas mãos o controle político da sociedade. Todas as instituições do Estado capitalista têm a função de preservar a propriedade privada, seja por leis, ou simplesmente pelo uso da força e repressão. Todos os dias nos deparamos com esse fato, quando os sem-teto ocupam um terreno urbano ou os sem-terra ocupam uma propriedade rural, ou ainda quando os operários ocupam uma fábrica. A polícia e a justiça garantem a propriedade dos capitalistas. O Congresso de qualquer país capitalista vota as leis que interessam ao grande capital.
Através de eleições, por dentro do Estado capitalista, não se pode conseguir romper com o próprio capitalismo. Há nele uma espécie de "sistema auto-imune" que se mostra em massacres e genocídios ao redor do mundo. Os proprietários do mundo, com seu poder económico, controlam as eleições, financiando campanhas milionárias, controlando as TVs e os jornais (quando estes não são deles mesmos), comprando os partidos e cabos eleitorais. No mundo do capital, o capital é o poder supremo. Só com uma total mudança da consciência massa, que rompa com o capitalismo, usurpador por princípio, e com os governos hegemónicos ditatoriais (lembre-se: toda "democracia" é uma farsa), será possível mudar realmente a vida dos biliões de seres humanos que sobrevivem em toda espécie de miséria. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1921BC68DDA3FAB&feature=plcp
Dans un monde où 1% de la population possède 40% de la richesse de la planète, dans un monde où 34.000 enfants meurent chaque jour de pauvreté et de maladies évitables et où 50% de la population mondiale vit avec moins de deux dollars par jour.
Une chose est clair : Quelque chose tourne très mal...
Vulgarisation des procédés de création d'argent par la banque centrale américaine - la Réserve Fédérale - Où comment l'argent est crée à partir de dette et pourquoi il est virtuellement impossible de s'en débarrasser...
http://lapena.org presents social critic and noted author Michael Parenti speaking about Democracy and the Pathology of Wealth. Parenti will be discussing developments in the U.S. political scene, the occupy movement and the struggle against corporate capitalism.
Michael Parenti is an internationally known award-winning author and lecturer. He is one of the nation's leading progressive political analysts. His highly informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad.
Parenti's writings cover a wide range of subjects: U.S. politics, culture, ideology, political economy, global imperialism, fascism, communism, democratic socialism, free-market orthodoxies, religion, ancient and modern history, news and entertainment media, environmentalism, sexism, racism, ethnicity, and his own early life.
Click on CC to activate subtitles. Leonardo Boff nos habla de la inconsciencia de los Jefes de Estado sobre la gravedad del futuro de la tierra y la civilización. Gobiernos que apoyan una Economía Verde que no cuestionan los niveles de consumo ni las profundas desigualdades de este mundo globalizado. Una Economía Verde que se constituye como la máxima perversidad del sistema capitalista; el poner precio a la naturaleza para aplicar los mecanismos del mercado con fines estrictamente lucrativos.
Leonardo Boff speaks of the unconscious of the Heads of State on the severity of future land and civilization. Governments that support a green economy that do not question the levels of consumption or the deep inequality in the globalized world. A Green Economy is constituted as the ultimate evil of the capitalist system, the nature pricing to apply market mechanisms strictly for profit.
Bajo el concepto de "Economía Verde", ingentes cantidades de dinero provenientes de la especulación financiera, buscan nuevas oportunidades de negocio y lucro en la naturaleza. Cortometraje de animación sobre el secuestro de la naturaleza por los mercados financieros. Una iniciativa de SOMO, Red eruopea Attac, Food&Water Europe, Friends of Earth, Amis de la Terre, Carbon Trade Watch, WEED, Ecologistas en Acción, Aitec y Campagna per la riforma della Banca Mondiale. Producido y realizado por La Antena y AttacTV. Animado por desarme s.c.
Short animated film about the takeover of nature by financial markets and the real alternatives coming up from the civil society. An iniciative of SOMO, European Attac Network, Food&Water Europe, Friends of Earth, Amis de la Terre, Carbon Trade Watch, WEED, Ecologistas en Acción, Aitec and Campagna per la riforma della Banca Mondiale. Produced by La Antena and AttacTV. Animated by desarme s.c.
Featuring : Angela Davis, author, political activist, former
University of California at Santa Cruz professor; Tim Wise, anti-racist
writer and educator, moderated by journalist Rose Aguilar.
David Harvey, Professor of Geography and Anthropology Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Three years after the near collapse of global financial markets, America is still struggling with unemployment, debt, and foreclosure, European governments are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy—and the world's billionaires are getting richer faster than ever before. The current situation is not sustainable. But what changes need to be made to overcome this mounting crisis of our world economic system? How radical an adaptation will be required? David Harvey, the brilliant theorist and scathing critic of postmodern society, looks at what the future holds for global capitalism. http://davidharvey.org/
The Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture Series in the Humanities brings to the Penn Humanities Forum scholars and artists whose work has advanced our understanding of issues central to the humanities. http://www.phf.upenn.edu/11-12/harvey.shtml
Capitalism Is The Crisis: Radical Politics in the Age of Austerity examines the ideological roots of the "austerity" agenda and proposes revolutionary paths out of the current crisis. The film features original interviews with Chris Hedges, Derrick Jensen, Michael Hardt, Peter Gelderloos, Leo Panitch, David McNally, Richard J.F. Day, Imre Szeman, Wayne Price, and many more!
The 2008 "financial crisis" in the United States was a systemic fraud in which the wealthy finance capitalists stole trillions of public dollars. No one was jailed for this crime, the largest theft of public money in history.
Instead, the rich forced working people across the globe to pay for their "crisis" through punitive "austerity" programs that gutted public services and repealed workers' rights.
Austerity was named "Word of the Year" for 2010.
This documentary explains the nature of capitalist crisis, visits the protests against austerity measures, and recommends revolutionary paths for the future.
Special attention is devoted to the crisis in Greece, the 2010 G20 Summit protest in Toronto, Canada, and the remarkable surge of solidarity in Madison, Wisconsin.
La doctrina del shock, (en inglés "The
Shock Doctrine"), es una película documental estrenada en 2009, basada
en el libro homónimo de Naomi Klein, dirigida por Michael Winterbottom y
Mat Whitecross. Trata sobre las teorías radicales de Milton
Friedman, profesor de la universidad de Chicago, y su escuela de
economía, ("los Chicago Boys"), y pone ejemplos de su puesta en práctica
en países tan dispares como el Chile de Augusto Pinochet, la Rusia de
Yeltsin, la Gran Bretaña de Thatcher y, más recientemente, en
Afghanistán e Irak. "La doctrina del shock" nos explica la ideología de
Friedman, tan impopular que sólo puede imponerse mediante la tortura y
la represión, y cuya idea central es aprovechar las crisis, los
desastres naturales, la guerra y la necesidad de un "peligroso enemigo",
para preparar el terreno con el que quebrar la voluntad de unas
sociedades que, alcanzado ese estado de shock, renuncian a valores que
de otro modo defenderían con entereza, dando paso al saqueo de los
intereses públicos y la implantación de reformas en beneficio de las
grandes corporaciones, en lo que se atreven a llamar "Libre Mercado".
"Encuadrar la crisis como una crisis de
la deuda es legitimar las políticas económicas que se están llevando a
cabo; las políticas neoliberales, y esto es una forma de debilitar a los
Estados" Elisabeth Katzler es economista, miembro de Attac Austria y asesora oficial de Transversalidad de Género en Austria.
Capitalism Is The Crisis examines the ideological roots of the
"austerity" agenda and proposes revolutionary paths out of the current
crisis. The film features original interviews with Chris Hedges, Derrick
Jensen, Michael Hardt, Peter Gelderloos, Leo Panitch, David McNally,
Richard J.F. Day, Imre Szeman, Wayne Price, and many more!
The
2008 "financial crisis" in the United States was a systemic fraud in
which the wealthy finance capitalists stole trillions of public dollars.
No one was jailed for this crime, the largest theft of public money in
history.
Instead, the rich forced working people across the globe
to pay for their "crisis" through punitive "austerity" programs that
gutted public services and repealed workers' rights.
Austerity was named "Word of the Year" for 2010.
This
documentary explains the nature of capitalist crisis, visits the
protests against austerity measures, and recommends revolutionary paths
for the future.
Special attention is devoted to the crisis in
Greece, the 2010 G20 Summit protest in Toronto, Canada, and the
remarkable surge of solidarity in Madison, Wisconsin.
"Encuadrar la crisis como una crisis de
la deuda es legitimar las políticas económicas que se están llevando a
cabo; las políticas neoliberales, y esto es una forma de debilitar a los
Estados" Elisabeth Katzler es economista, miembro de Attac Austria y asesora oficial de Transversalidad de Género en Austria.
Eduardo Galeano: "El mundo se divide en indignos e indignados"
The Crime of Ecocide
http://www.pollyhiggins.com/
"... move away from property laws to trusteeship laws, so rather than I own, to I owe. I owe a duty of care to this planet."
12-year old Victoria Grant explains why Canada (her homeland) and most of the world, is in debt.
"How the Media Frames Political Issues" by Scott London
In The Emergence of American Political Issues (1977) McCombs and Shaw state that the most important effect of the mass media is "its ability to mentally order and organize our world for us. In short, the mass media may not be successful in telling us what to think, but they are stunningly successful in telling us what to think about."[13] The presidential observer Theodore White corroborates this conclusion in The Making of a President (1972):
The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It determines what people will talk and think about - an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.[14]
McCombs and Shaw also note that the media's tendency to structure voters' perceptions of political reality in effect constitutes a bias: "to a considerable degree the art of politics in a democracy is the art of determining which issue dimensions are of major interest to the public or can be made salient in order to win public support."[15] http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/frames.html
I am just an anonymous citizen who firmly believes that we are the ones we are always waiting for. No saviors, heroes, leaders, gurus, or superior or inferior, we are all equals, and we need to think and behave as if it matters.
