Link to an article by Andrew Gavin Marshall:
“Bank Crimes Pay: Under the Thumb of the Global Financial Mafiocracy”
Tag: Politics
Emanuel Stoakes – Chomsky and His Critics
Link to an interview of Noam Chomsky by Emanuel Stoakes:
Chris Gilbert – “Why Socialism?” Revisited
Link to an article by Chris Gilbert:
“‘Why Socialism?’ Revisited: Reflections Inspired by Albert Einstein”
A very interesting essay, in line with late-period writings by Walter Benjamin, though what goes unsaid is that much of Einstein‘s views on this point were probably drawn from Thorstein Veblen. Who would have thought sci-fi movies would be so relevant?
Bonus links: “Inside Einstein’s Mind” and “You Only Live Twice”
William I. Robinson – Global Capitalist Crisis and the North American Free Trade Agreement
James H. Nolt – The Ideological Bedrock of Economics
Link to an article by James H. Nolt:
Slavoj Žižek – In the Wake of Paris Attacks the Left Must Embrace Its Radical Western Roots
Link to an article by Slavoj Žižek:
“In the Wake of Paris Attacks the Left Must Embrace Its Radical Western Roots”
Bonus links: “How to Read Žižek on the Refugee Crisis” and “The Need to Traverse the Fantasy”
Belén Fernández – Beirut and Paris: A Tale of Two Terror Attacks
Link to an article by Belén Fernández:
“Beirut and Paris: A Tale of Two Terror Attacks”
Bonus link: “Paris Attack: Isis Has Created a New Kind of Warfare”
Linsey McGoey – The Philanthropy Hustle
Link to an article by Linsey McGoey:
Bonus links: “Why Philanthropy Actually Hurts Rather Than Helps Some of the World’s Worst Problems” and “Philanthrocapitalism: A Self-Love Story” and “Bill Gates’s Philanthropic Giving Is a Racket” and “How Corporate Power Converted Wealth Into Philanthropy for Social Control”
Arundhati Roy – Things That Can and Cannot Be Said
Link to an interview with Arundhati Roy by John Cusack:
“Things That Can and Cannot Be Said”
Another part of the interview: “What Shall We Love”
Bonus links: Non-Violence: A History Beyond the Myth and How Nonviolence Protects the State and “If Governments Believe So Much in Nonviolence, They Should Try It” and Socialism and War (“Socialists have always condemned war between nations as barbarous and brutal. But our attitude towards war is fundamentally different from that of the bourgeois pacifists (supporters and advocates of peace) and of the Anarchists. We differ froth the former in that we understand the inevitable connection between wars and the class struggle within the country; we understand that war cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished and Socialism is created; and we also differ in that we fully regard civil wars, i.e., wars waged by the oppressed class against the oppressing class, slaves against slave-owners, serfs against land-owners, and wage-workers against the bourgeoisie, as legitimate, progressive and necessary.”) and The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution (“An oppressed class which does not strive to learn to use arms, to acquire arms, only deserves to be treated like slaves.”)
Les Leopold – Why Does America Have More Prisoners Than Any Police State?
Link to an article by Les Leopold:
“Why Does America Have More Prisoners Than Any Police State?”