Daily Archives: 6. März 2016


06.03.2016 - 18:45 [ Daily.SK ]

Slovak Elections: Parliament Hung, Drawn and Quartered

The results of the Slovak parliamentary elections produced enough surprises for the splintered right to dream of forming a multi-party coalition government and oust current Prime Minister Robert Fico and his Smer-SD party, which finds itself without enough allies in parliament to get the majority it would need.
Parliament will welcome (apparently not) also the extreme right LSNS party of controversial Marian Kotleba, as well as the return of the Slovak National Party. Eight parties got into parliament on the votes of just 59.82% of the eligible electorate. Meanwhile, the ever-present Christian democrats of KDH fell short of the 5% parliamentary threshold (4.94%).

06.03.2016 - 17:24 [ Machtdose ]

Podcast March 2016

As last month bit shorter but still full of nice melodies and harmonies.

06.03.2016 - 16:09 [ Dan-news.info via Alternative Presseschau ]

Presseschau vom 05.03.2016

(5.März) Nach Änderung der Entscheidung über die Freilassung aus der Untersuchungshaft und einer Verlängerung des Haftzeitraums beging einer der Angeklagten einen Selbstmordversuch. Die Verteidigung wandte sich an die Generalstaatsanwaltschaft der Ukraine mit der Forderung, das Richterkollegium strafrechtlich zur Verantwortung zu ziehen, dies wurde abgelehnt.
Das Gerichtsverfahren zu den tragischen Ereignissen in Odessa zieht sich seit Januar des letzten Jahres hin. Die Verhandlungen finden etwa dreimal im Monat statt. Auf der Anklagebank sitzen 20 Menschen, von denen zwei Bürger der RF sind. Bei der letzten Sitzung hat der Hauptzeuge des staatlichen Anklägers sich von seinen vorhergehenden Aussagen distanziert, die er im Stadium der Ermittlungen „unter Druck“ abgegeben habe.

06.03.2016 - 14:36 [ Youtube ]

Operation Gladio – Full 1992 documentary BBC

Originally aired on BBC2 in 1992, ‚Operation Gladio‘ reveals ‚Gladio‘, the secret state-sponsored terror network operating in Europe.

This BBC series is about a far-right secret army, operated by the CIA and MI6 through NATO, which killed hundreds of innocent Europeans and attempted to blame the deaths on Baader Meinhof, Red Brigades and other left wing groups. Known as ‚stay-behinds‘ these armies were given access to military equipment which was supposed to be used for sabotage after a Soviet invasion. Instead it was used in massacres across mainland Europe as part of a CIA Strategy of Tension. Gladio killing sprees in Belgium and Italy were carried out for the purpose of frightening the national political classes into adopting U.S. policies.

06.03.2016 - 13:51 [ James Petras ]

Twilight of the Idols: Rise and Fall of the Personalist Left

Over the past three years Latin American leftist leaders, who presided over heterodox ‘free trade’ and commodity based welfare economies, lost presidential, legislative and municipal elections and referendums or faced impeachment. They fell because they lost competitive elections, not because of US invasions or military coups. These same leftist leaders, who had successfully defeated coups and withstood gross US political intervention via AID, NED, the DEA and other US government agencies, lost at the ballot box.

What accounts for the changing capacity of leftist presidents to retain majoritarian electoral support over almost a decade? Why did the US-backed and funded candidates win this time, when they had been defeated in several previous elections? What accounts for the defeat of the rightist violent road to power and their subsequent victory via the electoral process?