Link to an article by Brendan McGeever:
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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.”
Cliff Weathers – Your HR Department Hates You
Link to an article by Cliff Weathers:
“Your HR Department Hates You: How Corporate Overseers Exploit Workers”
Stephen Resnick & Richard Wolff – The Economic Crisis
Link to an article by Stephen Resnick & Richard Wolff:
Walden Bello – Europe’s Faustian Bargain with Big Finance
Link to an interview of Walden Bello:
M.G. Piety – Academic Bullying: the Vacuum of Moral Leadership in the Academy
Link to an article by M.G. Piety:
“Academic Bullying: the Vacuum of Moral Leadership in the Academy”
Most of this is general enough to apply outside academia. Interesting that she cited Plato in one place about just behavior, but, rather than another philosopher like Rousseau, cites cognitivist scientists regarding trusting human nature.
Carl Hart Quote on the War on Drugs
Quote of Carl Hart from the interview “Neuroscientist Carl Hart: We Need to Stop Jeff Sessions from Escalating the Racist War on Drugs”:
CARL HART: Well, what it means is that he—well, as you know, under [former U.S. Attorney General] Eric Holder, Eric Holder has suggested—or his memo said that we shouldn’t engage in those mandatory minimums [i.e., mandatory minimum criminal prison sentences]. So he gave judges flexibility, whereas [Attorney General] Jeff Sessions is encouraging the judges to go back to mandatory minimum. What that means is that people will get harsher sentences for drug-related violations now. And what that means ultimately—as [Anthony] Papa has said, we all know the drug war didn’t work. That’s not entirely true, because the drug war did work for certain segments of our population. And that’s where the crux of this policy really needs to be interrogated. It allows—Jeff Sessions is allowing us or is using drug policy to separate the people who we like from the people who we don’t like. And it provides a way to go after those people we don’t like, usually poor minority folks, without explicitly saying we don’t like those people. And that’s how drug law—that’s how drug law or drug policy has been enforced in this country. And so, if we allow Sessions to turn back the hands of time, then shame on all of us. The blood is on all of our hands, because we know the consequences of his proposed actions.
(Emphasis added)
Bonus link: Mladen Dolar on “University Discourse”