Link to an article by Katja Kipping:
Tag: Politics
The Political Compass – US Presidential Election 2016
Link to information on candidates from The Political Compass:
Herbert Deyer, Jr. – The First Demand for Slave Reparations
Link to an article by Herbert Deyer, Jr.:
“The First Demand for Slave Reparations”
Bonus Link: “Statement to the Media by the United Nations’ Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, on the Conclusion of Its Official Visit to USA, 19-29 January 2016” (“The colonial history, the legacy of enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism, and racial inequality in the US remains a serious challenge as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent.“)
John Patrick Leary – Flint’s Bottom Line
Link to an article by John Patrick Leary:
Bonus links: “Flint: A Tale of Two Cities” and “A Pediatrician General Motors and the Flint Water Crisis” and “The Poisoning of Flint”
Tony Bates – Book Review: The Future of the Professions
Link to a review by Tony Bates of The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts (2015) by Richard and Daniel Susskind:
“Book Review: The Future of the Professions (Including Teaching)”
Bonus links: Forces of Production and “Edutopia” and Homo academicus and Making Money
Terry Carter – Will Those Who Led the Financial System Into Crisis Ever Face Charges?
Link to an article by Terry Carter:
“Will Those Who Led the Financial System Into Crisis Ever Face Charges?”
Walden Bello – Why Wall Street Won Round One and We Might Win the Next
Link to an article by Walden Bello:
Elaine Coburn – Economics as Ideology: Challenging Expert Political Power
Jeffrey St. Clair & James Ridgeway – Articles on New West Vigilantes
Links to articles by Jeffrey St. Clair & James Ridgeway:
“On the Firing Line: Bullies in Stetsons”
“The War to Claim the New West”
Bonus Links: “Cattle, Guns, Birds and Boredom: Inside the Oregon Occupation” and “9th Circuit Blasts Judge Who Ruled for Rancher”
Slavoj Žižek – The Cologne Attacks Were an Obscene Version of Carnival
Link to an article by Slavoj Žižek:
“The Cologne Attacks Were an Obscene Version of Carnival”
Selected quotes:
- “being a victim at the bottom of the social ladder does not make you some kind of privileged voice of morality and justice.”
- “This destructive potential of envy is the base of Rousseau’s well-known distinction between egotism, amour-de-soi (that love of the self which is natural), and amour-propre, the perverted preferring of oneself to others in which a person focuses not on achieving a goal, but on destroying the obstacle to it [quoting Rousseau, juge de Jean-Jacques, first dialog] . . . An evil person is thus not an egotist, ‘thinking only about his own interests’. A true egotist is too busy taking care of his own good to have time to cause misfortune to others. The primary vice of a bad person is that he is more preoccupied with others than with himself.”
- “The difficult lesson of this entire affair is thus that it is not enough to simply give voice to the underdogs the way they are: in order to enact actual emancipation, they have to be educated (by others and by themselves) into their freedom.”