Link to an article by Michael Barker:
“How Alternative Dispute Resolution Promotes Injustice”
An interesting theory about liberal technocratic banality in the judicial arena masking oppressive social policy.
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Jonathan Latham – The Biotech Industry is Taking Over the Regulation of GMOs From the Inside
Link to an article by Jonathan Latham:
“The Biotech Industry is Taking Over the Regulation of GMOs From the Inside”
The central dispute between industry and critics like Latham is over which of two approaches to adopt: (1) reasonably prove safety before commercial release, or (2) presume safety (and permit commercial release) until harm is proven. See also “Unsafe at any Dose? Diagnosing Chemical Safety Failures, from DDT to BPA”
Sagan Disqualified
Good riddance!: “Peter Sagan Disqualified After Dramatic Crash That Forces Mark Cavendish Out of Tour de France”
But how long with it take to disqualify Chris Froome and revoke his titles for doping? Too long, it seems.
Ralph Nader – Driverless Cars: Hype, Hubris and Distractions
Link to an article by Ralph Nader:
Slavoj Žižek – Let Us Be Realists And Demand The Impossible: Communism
Link to a lecture by Slavoj Žižek:
“Let Us Be Realists And Demand The Impossible: Communism”
The title of the talk alludes to the May 1968 slogan “Be realistic, demand the impossible.” This is one of Žižek’s more coherent lectures.
Brendan McGeever – The Bolsheviks and Antisemitism
Link to an article by Brendan McGeever:
Paul Street – Twelve Blasphemous Thoughts
Link to an article by Paul Street:
Michael Parenti – Quotations
Link to a list of quotations by Michael Parenti:
Honest Accounts 2017: How the World Profits from Africa’s Wealth
Link to a report by Global Justice Now:
“Honest Accounts 2017: How the World Profits from Africa’s Wealth”
John Kenneth Galbraith Quote
“The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man’s oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”