It Will be Grand | Cunning Hired Knaves Richard of Cunning Hired Knaves has a translation of a joint statement from the citizens of Sol in Spain and Syntagma in Greece, against the proposed debt…
Monthly Archives For August 2011
Tax us more, say wealthy Europeans | World news | The Guardian
Tax us more, say wealthy Europeans | World news | The Guardian The German group, Vermögende für eine Vermögensabgabe (The Wealthy for a Capital Levy) is the latest manifestation of a feeling among some well-off…
To the Finland Station: The undoing of the Menshevik Approach to the Euro Crisis
When Lenin alighted on 3rd April 1917 at Petrograd’s Finland Station, a train was set in motion that upstaged, and eventually overturned, the Mensheviks’ plan for an ‘evolutionary’ path from absolute Tsarism to some form…
Egypt's military ruler Tantawi and the American siege of Gaza: revelations from Wikileaks | The Electronic Intifada
Egypt’s military ruler Tantawi and the American siege of Gaza: revelations from Wikileaks | The Electronic Intifada The US government was even more actively involved than previously known in enforcing the siege of Gaza along…
If an Economic Tree Falls, Does It Make a Sound?
Gene Kerrigan is a little dubious about claims of Ireland’s ‘unexpected economic recovery‘. The article by David Vines and Max Watson of Oxford University, which first appeared in the Financial Times, went viral Irish-style, reprinted in…
Behind the News Podcast | Psychology of Class & Social interactions and Talking about Debt with Graeber
Behind the News Podcast | Psychology of Class & Social interactions and Talking about Debt with Graeber Great interviews on this Behind the News podcast with Dacher Keltner of UC-Berkeley on the psychology of class and…
Negative trends in world trade – further confirmation of economic slowdown
Attempts to assess current prospects for the world economy have primarily focused on deceleration in US and European GDP growth. But world trade is clearly also indicating negative trends. Trade is a particularly sensitive indicator as…
Gilbert Achcar: Who Are the Libyan Rebels? This is the $1 Billion Dollar Question | Democracy Now!
Gilbert Achcar: Who Are the Libyan Rebels? This is the $1 Billion Dollar Question | Democracy Now!
If We Don’t Stop It Now, the Sins of the Father Shall Be Visited Upon the Sons*
Yesterday in the Irish Times Fintan O’Toole returned to the subject of his column from the previous week, which is now known as Ireland’s Great Oil and Gas Giveaway (or GOGG for short) and deals…
Comment is free Being volunteered to work for nothing: a new recipe for the likes of them | John Harris
Comment is free Being volunteered to work for nothing: a new recipe for the likes of them | John Harris John Harris has been looking at workfare schemes in the UK, -same as 'internships' here…
When People Take Over | Against the Grain
When People Take Over | Against the Grain According to David McNally, people are coming together and creating exciting new democratic practices in locales around the globe. He points to grassroots experiments in radical democracy…
Libya: Can the rebels rule? | The Arabist -Steve Negus
Libya: Can the rebels rule? | The Arabist -Steve Negus "There's been a lot written about the difficulty that the rebel National Transitional Council may have consolidating control over a post-Qaddafi Libya, and the likelihood…
Dublin Opinion » Blog Archive » FOREIGN ENTERPRISE IN IRELAND: SOME FIGURES
Dublin Opinion » Blog Archive » FOREIGN ENTERPRISE IN IRELAND: SOME FIGURES Ireland’s economic model is to have IDA-supported foreign companies which provide €2.8 billion in tax revenue, and €19.149 billion in wages and local…
What Extra Baggage Do Words Have? A Review of Embassytown and Wittgenstein’s Antiphilosophy
Book Review: Embassytown, China Miéville (Pan MacMillan) and Wittgenstein’s Antiphilosophy, Alain Badiou (Verso) Words are a funny old kettle of fish and good sci fi has always been alert to this. In Heinlein’s novel The…
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