The 1 Percent’s Solution | Mais pourquoi les libéraux partisans de l’austérité continuent à imposer leur doctrine alors que tout prouve que c’est de la connerie en barre ?
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/opinion/krugman-the-one-percents-solution.html?hp
Yet two big questions remain. First, how did austerity doctrine become so influential in the first place? Second, will policy change at all now that crucial austerian claims have become fodder for late-night comics?
L’économie, c’est avant idéologique. Et l’idéologie pour un capitaliste, c’est avant tout intéressé.
Mon hypothèse : l’austérité ça consiste à réduire les dépenses publiques, donc privatiser, donc ouvrir de nouveaux marchés aux capitalistes pour prolonger la fuite en avant, et bien sûr réduire la fiscalité ensuite quand ça repart (ben oui la dépense publique ayant décru)
S’ils y arrivent, rdv dans 5 ans quand ils auront asséchés ces derniers marchés, pour la prochaine grande crise. Il faudra en trouver d’autres pour qu’ils puissent continuer à ponctionner leurs richesses, moi personnellement à part légaliser le cannibalisme, j’en vois pas. Mais on peut leur faire confiance, ils ne reculent devant rien...
The Guantánamo Stain - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/opinion/the-guantanamo-stain.html
All five living presidents gathered in Texas Thursday for a feel-good moment at the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, which is supposed to symbolize the legacy that Mr. Bush has been trying to polish. President Obama called it a “special day for our democracy.” Mr. Bush spoke about having made “the tough decisions” to protect America. They all had a nice chuckle when President Bill Clinton joked about former presidents using their libraries to rewrite history.
But there is another building, far from Dallas on land leased from Cuba, that symbolizes Mr. Bush’s legacy in a darker, truer way: the military penal complex at Guantánamo Bay where Mr. Bush imprisoned hundreds of men after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a vast majority guilty of no crime.
It became the embodiment of his dangerous expansion of executive power and the lawless detentions, secret prisons and torture that went along with them. It is now also a reminder of Mr. Obama’s failure to close the prison as he promised when he took office, and of the malicious interference by Congress in any effort to justly try and punish the Guantánamo inmates.
Cancer Physicians Attack High Drug Costs
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/business/cancer-physicians-attack-high-drug-costs.html
With the cost of some lifesaving cancer drugs exceeding $100,000 a year, more than 100 influential cancer specialists from around the world have taken the unusual step of banding together in hopes of persuading some leading pharmaceutical companies to bring prices down.
Some of the doctors who signed on to the commentary said they were inspired by physicians at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, who last fall refused to use a new colon cancer drug, Zaltrap, because it was twice as expensive as another drug without being better.
Many of the roughly 120 doctors who were co-authors of the commentary — about 30 of whom are from the United States, the — work closely with pharmaceutical companies on research and clinical trials. They say they favor a healthy pharmaceutical industry, but think prices are much higher than they need to be to ensure that.
“If you are making $3 billion a year on Gleevec, could you get by with $2 billion?” Dr. Druker, who is now director of the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health and Science University, said in an interview. “When do you cross the line from essential profits to profiteering?”