Why did welfare in Sweden begin to be dismantled from the 70s? Can everyone get a job? How do we give people housing? The climate - how do we save it? Feel good in a challenging society, okay? The newly published book "Survival - for society and the people" wants to spark discussion about society and life. Read the review by Lars Gahrn,…
Category: Political Union
Free trade agreements for corporate control of societies may fall
American presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said that she intends to put an end to the TPP free trade agreement that concerns the United States and the countries of the Pacific Ocean. Then the sister agreement TTIP between the US and the EU will probably also fall. Both free trade agreements are really just free trade agreements in name. What they are actually doing is a huge transfer of power from democratic, popularly elected power holders to today's corporate owners.
The EU is trying to go around national parliaments to get TTIP through
TTIP is the so-called free trade agreement between the EU and the US which specifically wants foreign investors in private courts with special rules to be able to sue the agreement countries whose decisions may lead to reduced opportunities for increased profit for said foreign investors. This really threatens the possibility of strengthening welfare, environmental and consumer rights. There are an awful lot of…
Investor protection threat to democracy
The TTIP trade agreement – an agreement between the US and Europe – has protections for investors. A protection that threatens our democracy. If a company believes that a political end threatens any future increased opportunities for profit, they simply want to be able to go to court. To a private court. Without transparency. In the video below you can…
TTIP – the free trade agreement that threatens to ban left-wing and environmental politics
CRUCIAL FREE TRADE AGREEMENT IN BALI New times are coming. A decisive first step towards implementation came in Bali 6/12 2013 for TTIP (Transatlantic trade and investment partnership); a new, global free trade agreement. The Geneva meeting crashed. Bali was close to a collapse, but India saved it. The most significant ingredients of the agreement are that companies get the right…
The principle of publicity threatened
It will be significantly easier for politicians and authorities to classify documents in Sweden as confidential. Already now, the government has classified ministers' share trading so that the minister could not be scrutinized after a suspicion that everything did not go right. The principle of openness has been the basis for the people and journalists to be able to scrutinize the exercise of power by politicians and authorities. Now…
Community vision on the right - the Night's Watch State
Syria and the Olympics in London 2012 are two polar opposites. A connection exists in Afghanistan. Sweden is about to end the war in Afghanistan. A war that is considered a failure. The reasons are: The troops have not created the security or a reconstruction for a functioning state or stable institutions. Unaware of the true motives and consequences of…
The euro – the demented idea. Germany's Plan on the Future of Europe and the German Empire.
An article in the Telegraph has been leaked about the German government's memorandum on the future of the EU. A full-fledged "political union" in Europe is being discussed at the highest level in the German government. David Cameron in the UK does not need to hold a referendum on EU treaty changes. A plan is already prepared. In Germany!