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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.
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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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:
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
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
BBC NEWS | Europe | Kosovo trial clears Serbia leader
"Serbian ex-President Milan Milutinovic has been acquitted on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Kosovo by a UN war crimes tribunal."
Communist Party of Ireland - Irish economy begins to implode
"The economic and financial crisis facing our country is growing and deepening daily and exposing as never before the myths of capitalism. The Government and the political establishment are overseeing the rip-off of €7,000,000,000 from the National Pensio
DIE LINKE: Linke Kräfte gegen extreme Rechte in Europa bündeln
"National President and member of the Saxony parliament, calls for open and cross-party opposition to the Nazis: "Taking on Europe's extreme right will be better if the EU has a humanitarian refugee policy, and fields a trade and economic policy.
Landesv
Further Selections from The Prison Notebooks By Antonio Gramsci edited and translated by Derek Boothman
"This volume brings together Gramsci's writings on religion, education, science, philosophy, and economic theory. The theme that links these writings is the investigation of ideology at its different levels, and the structures that embody and reproduce it
Ex-MI5 chief: We're in a police state / Morning Star
"CIVIL rights campaigners welcomed on Tuesday former counter-intellingence chief Dame Stella Rimington's surprise attack on government attempts to create a "police state." "
Althusser: The Detour of Theory
"First published in 1987, Althusser, The Detour of Theory was widely received as the fullest account of its subject to date. Drawing on a wide range of hitherto untranslated material, it examined the political and intellectual contexts of Althusser’s ‘ret
French postman delivers far left message | World news | The Guardian
"Hailed by supporters as an inspirational project exploding on to the political scene as French people cast round for an answer to their economic woes, the party is an eclectic mixture of traditional communists and members with more contemporary motivatio
Socialist Labour Party (U.K.) -- Workers seize plant as Waterford Crystal ordered shut
"Hundreds of workers were occupying Ireland's world-famous Waterford
Crystal factory tonight after being told by text message they were
losing their jobs. Scuffles broke out as private security teams brought in by receivers
tried to keep back employees fr
éirígí: For A Socialist Republic -- Blood Sunday Rally
"The Bloody Sunday rally which has drawn masses of progressives from Ireland and further afield for more than three decades this year was interwoven with a massive display of international solidarity. All in attendance showed powerful support for the peop
Communist Party of Greece (KKE) Central Committee: Theses on Socialism « The Marxist-Leninist
"The following is a document summing up the experience of revolution and counter-revolution in the USSR submitted by the Central Committee f the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) to the Party’s 18th Congress. I am posting the theses here as an important Mar
Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed
"Throughout, Ahmed not only considers the Islamic texts in which central ideologies about women and gender developed or were debated but also places this discourse in its social and historical context. Her book is thus a fascinating survey of Islamic deba
LENIN'S TOMB: Ugly turn
When are the unions gonna learn!?
"I am astonished to hear that there is a 'British jobs for British workers' protest planned by trade unionists for next week. Thus, this horrible slogan is not only the single most prominent one on the picket lines, it i
A Very Public Sociologist: A 'Racist' Strike?
"When the bosses divide our class along the lines of race and nation, we are weaker. Instead of capitulating to the anti-immigrant sentiment fanned by the gutter press, unions must demand legislation that prevents employers from taking on workers at below
LENIN'S TOMB: France's General Strike
"Greek workers are up in arms, the Italian working class is revolting against the Berlusconi administration, protesters in Iceland have deposed their government, and now Sarkozy is the latest to feel the wrath."
BBC NEWS | Europe | Migrants escape on Italian island
"Hundreds of illegal immigrants have broken out of a detention centre on the Italian island of Lampedusa and are staging a protest, officials have said."
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