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15 Mar 09
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07 Mar 09
Reading Afghanistan: Books to help you understand the quagmire | rabble.ca
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Richard Seymour, a young British writer, rips the humanitarian veil off of this apologia for imperialism, and traces its long history -- everybody from the infamous, inebriated turncoat Christopher Hitchens, to born-again Canadian Michael Ignatieff, to John Stuart Mill (whose 'defense of liberty' proved less than vigorous when it came to colonial subjects) gets taken to task for their warmongering in Seymour's tour de force debut, The Liberal Defense of Murder.
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: the White Man at AUB:
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I want the boycott to continue and to expand and it has to cleaned up from any traces of anti-Semitism and the censors have to make it clear that the boycott is aimed at Israel and not against any religion whatever.
FT.com / Columnists / Lunch with the FT - Lunch with the FT: Slavoj Žižek
Interesting and off the wall (in different directions) interview.
- Zizek is quite the interesting intellectual. A little too weird for me, but, he is quite useful in certain areas; especially in pop-culture and such. - jackstephens on 2009-03-07
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the financial crisis has killed off the liberal utopianism that flourished after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and all the grand talk about the “end of history”. The terrorist attacks of September 2001 and the financial meltdown have exploded the myth that the market economy and liberal democracy have all the answers to all the questions.
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But even if capitalism is temporarily repaired, Žižek says, this will do nothing to resolve its inherent contradictions.
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04 Mar 09
Companies bailed out by America's government have lost half their value in 2009 | Bailing the ailing | The Economist
Firms have not done well with the bailouts
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AMERICA'S government has bailed out over 20 ailing companies since the demise of Lehman Brothers in September. And once, it seems, is often not enough.
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AMERICA'S government has bailed out over 20 ailing companies since the demise of Lehman Brothers in September. And once, it seems, is often not enough.
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02 Mar 09
Mmegi Online :: Mugabe proves sceptics right
"Sceptics were right about the brouhaha that surrounded the Southern African Development Community (SADC)-crafted Government of National Unity in Zimbabwe. From the start it was certain that the arrangement was destined for failure."
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As we write, the arrangement is in tatters. Mugabe is still behaving as if nothing has changed. MDC's supporters, including a designated minister, Roy Bennett, are still languishing in jail over trumped up charges. Human rights activists are still incarcerated in prisons across Zimbabwe.
CPUSA Online - African American Communist: W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
"W.E.B. Du Bois was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He encountered socialist ideas while he was studying in Germany, where he occasionally attended rallies of the German Social Democratic Party. A pioneer of U.S. sociology and prolific author, Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and was the first editor of its journal the Crisis."
World Trade Organization
- Some good resources on the World Trade Organization - jackstephens on 2009-03-02
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Robocop: A discussion of Taylorism through the works of Marx and Haraway « The 50 Megaton Paper Tiger
"In the next week or two I’ll be working on some entries about the Robocop films. I decided to analyze the movies through the theoretical contexts of Karl Marx’s Alienation of Labor and Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto. Good “light” reading if I do say
01 Mar 09
Arroyo's new baseline is a sellout to China--CPP::Philippine Revolution Web Central
""This is nothing but a sellout to China in exchange for the largesse that Gloria and Mike Arroyo have been receiving from corrupt Chinese bureaucrats and big compradors," said the CPP. "Since Gloria Arroyo began entering into numerous anomalous deals wit
Logic of Desire: An Introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by Peter Kalkavage
In order to better understand Marx one must read Hegel. This book is a great introduction to Hegel's thought and it will help in understanding where Marx is coming from and will illuminate his works for us.
"There is much to commend the study of Hegel:
Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Stimulus Ostriches
"Of all the strange things that have happened this winter, perhaps the strangest has been the emergence of large-scale Republican Party opposition to the Obama administration's effort to keep American unemployment from jumping to 10% or higher."
Why Supporting Groups Like the FARC-EP and Indian Liberation are Mutually Exclusive « By Any Means Necessary
"The FARC are Indian killers, pure and simple..."
The End of Poverty? « Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
"The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting o
28 Feb 09
Are Palestinians Allowed to Resist? (Part II/II)
"Relying solely on non-violence subordinates the fundamental moral and ethical goal of independence to all sorts of conditionalities in order to achieve it in the “right” way."
The 50 Megaton Paper Tiger
A great new blog the melds Marxist thought and post-modern, post-structural theory, along with critical race issues.
27 Feb 09
angry asian man - angry eight years
"Happy Valentine's Day, whatever that means to you. Longtime readers of this website know that today actually marks another big milestone -- the eighth anniversary of Angry Asian Man. Eight years ago today, I launched the first incarnation of this website
Food writer's online guide to building an H-bomb...the 'evidence' that put this man in Guantanamo | Mail Online
"A British ‘resident’ held at Guantanamo Bay was identified as a terrorist after confessing he had visited a ‘joke’ website on how to build a nuclear weapon, it was revealed last night.
Binyam Mohamed, a former UK asylum seeker, admitted to having read t
26 Feb 09
Why 88 Arab homes may get eviction notices
This is why Biblical and other archaeologists should not DIG in Israel!
"Israel plans to demolish 88 homes in Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, to make way for a new archaeological park, adding new fuel the slow-burning dispute over J
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Downturn hits Philippine remittances
"In the Philippines, about eight million people - one in 10 adults - work abroad.
Millions of families depend on the money they send back.
But now a crisis is looming - as the economic downturn means thousands are losing their jobs overseas and being se
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