Guernica / Ella Cantarow: Big Oil Makes War on the Earth: The Gulf Coast Joins an Oil-Soiled Planet
Good article from Ella Cantarow on those places where oil spills have been causing problems for considerably longer than the Gulf Coast.
"If you live on the Gulf Coast, welcome to the real world of oil—and just [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

k-punk: Football/ capitalist realism/ utopia
English football,” the writer Robin Carmody argued on his live journal page, “is a metaphor for precisely what the neoliberals have done to England itself …” But it's more than a metaphor. Football has been at the forefront of the total re-engineering of English culture, society and economy wrought by neoliberalism [...]

Honduras Commemorates Tense Anniversary of Unresolved Military Coup | North American Congress on Latin America
Honduras - one year after the coup:
"In deep contrast to this boisterous dialogue among the Honduran people, ongoing efforts—led by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton—to secure Honduras's reentry to the Organization of American States (OAS) and other regional bodies [...]