Link to an article by Daniel Geary:
Bonus links: “Chomsky vs. Žižek” and “The Man With Two Brains”
Tag: Politics
Luke Savage – Twilight of the Technocrats?
Link to an article by Luke Savage:
Ahmed Shawki – The Legacy of Malcolm X
Link to an article by Ahmed Shawki:
Bonus link: “To the Memory of Malcolm X: Fifty Years After His Assassination”
Margaret Garb – How Today’s White Middle Class Was Made Possible By Welfare
Link to an article and book review by Margaret Garb:
“How Today’s White Middle Class Was Made Possible By Welfare”
Simon Davis-Cohen – Corporate America is Inching Even Closer to a Constitutional Convention
Link to an article by Simon Davis-Cohen:
“Corporate America is Inching Even Closer to a Constitutional Convention”
Robespierre – Draft Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Link to machine translation of Robespierre‘s speech of April 24, 1793:
“Draft Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen”
Superior in every way to the final version.
Vincent Emanuele – A Conversation with David Harvey
Link to an interview of David Harvey conducted by Vincent Emanuele:
“Rebel Cities, Urban Resistance and Capitalism: A Conversation with David Harvey”
Harvey is best in these sort of interview settings. It is great that the conversation touches on questions of culture and symbols — though there is not much depth here beyond simply raising those issues. It is worth noting that Pierre Bourdieu and others have offered substantial analytic tools to bolster theory in that area.
David Hudson – Public Officials Can’t Evade Public Records Laws Through Personal Email Accounts
Link to an article by David Hudson:
“Public Officials Can’t Evade Public Records Laws Through Personal Email Accounts”
Martha Rosenberg – They Aren’t All Safe
Link to an article by Martha Rosenberg:
“They Aren’t All Safe: Pharma is Willing to Look ‘Unscientific’ to Sell Vaccines”
Bonus links: “The Vaccination Quandary” (Note: he’s actually referring to Sherri Tenpenny, not Shirley Tenpenny.) and “FDA Commissioner Hamburg Appointed WHO Deputy?: A Sad Legacy” and “Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA” and “Public Interest Group Calls for Investigation Into Harassment of USDA Scientists” and “Suppressing Scientific Discourse on Vaccines? Self-Perceptions of Researchers and Practitioners”
Slavoj Žižek – Lessons From the “Airpocalypse”
Link to an article by Slavoj Žižek:
“Lessons From the ‘Airpocalypse’”
Notes: The phrase “spaceship Earth” was coined by R. Buckminster Fuller. Žižek seems to clarify Fuller’s suggestion, “If the success or failure of this planet, and of human beings, depended on how I am and what I do, how would I be? What would I do?” Žižek repeats his general position that people should not cynically obtain surplus enjoyment for doing what is good, but should instead be duty-bound to do good.