Friday, Jan 27th 2012
ei: Architectural planning for a different future
"If you live under a colonial regime, the first thing you are prevented from doing is thinking about a future," proclaims Sandi Hilal. "This is the first thing that the occupation imposes on you. And to propose in Palestine right now a future where you can plan, imagine, is [...]
Despite the expenditure of over US$2.5 trillion in official development assistance (ODA), billions of people continue to live in conditions of the direst poverty. Hunger and inequality stalk their lives as they struggle to survive. As Samir Amin wrote at the turn of the millennium:
“The polarization that is characteristic of modern globalization is phenomenal, without [...]
Is Irish Society being Sacrificed to Save the Bond Market?
Video of ICTU Lecture & Debate featuring economist and author of Ireland and the Global Question Michael O'Sullivan.
"Ireland's 'true unemployment' rate could be close to 20% says Congress Economic Advisor Paul Sweeney.
He says that the official figures "significantly underestimate the 'true' level of unemployment and [...]
Incomes of the low paid must be protected
Speaking in response to the ESRI Quarterly Economic Commentary, Anne Costello of the Community Platform stated, ‘we agree with broadening the tax base but strongly reject suggestions that this should mean bringing the low paid into the income tax net.’
Ms Costello went on to state, ‘the Community Platform [...]
John Weeks | Growth and Deficits: It’s not rocket science
In early July the International Monetary Fund revised the economic growth projections which it had made in April. To the surprise of no one except perhaps George Osborne and Angela Merkel, the countries that maintain a fiscal stimulus had their growth rates adjusted upwards, while [...]
New Left Project | Articles | ‘God helps those who help themselves’ | Norman Finkelstein Interviewed
NLP: How much elite opposition to occupation is there within Israel?
NF: Some people speculate that you can find some elite opposition among, say, the industrialists in Israel. Presumably the equivalent of our Silicon Valley high-tech business people, who probably think [...]
n+1: Goodbye to the Graphosphere
I'm learning to love n+1….it's about the future
"To the logosphere corresponds the dominance of the spoken and heard; to the graphosphere, that of the written and read; and to the videosphere, that of mass-produced audiovisuals received electronically. And Debray aligns other changes with the “mediological” ones. Time itself, once experienced as [...]
The future prospects of “social partnership” remain uncertain. Two decades of boom an accommodation towards co-operative union-management relations have created a union movement institutionalised in the partnership milieu and evidently uncomfortable with, or perhaps sceptical of, the possibilities for an alternative, mobilisation strategy.
It could still be possible that a national-level social partnership regime may be [...]
A Vindication of Del Bosque’s Team Selection
I shall not harp on about the demonstration of Spain’s genetic and moral superiority that was prove over the weekend yet again. After all, as foregone conclusions go, this one have gone long before it ever went. Even despite the lubricous decisions of the idiot English referee Clive Webb, [...]
Football and Fascism | R.W. Johnson – LRB Blog
While Mark Fisher provides a more nuanced analysis of the cultural and socio-political significance of football in British life than Terry Eagleton’s grandstanding flourish to ‘abolish the game’, its worth checking out R.W. Johnson take in the LRB blog on the connections between fascism and football. [...]
