Link to an article by John Pilger:
Tag: Politics
Matt Taibbi – A Whistleblower’s Horror Story
Link to an article by Matt Taibbi:
Slavoj Žižek – A Note on Syriza: Indebted Yes, but Not Guilty!
Link to an article by Slavoj Žižek:
“A Note on Syriza: Indebted Yes, but Not Guilty!”
Bonus links: “The Greek Debt Interim Agreement: Necessary Step or Sell-Out?,” “Greece: Austerity for the Bankers,” “The Democratic Right to Cry ‘Enough’” and “Reading the Greek Deal Correctly” and “Greece: a Chronology From January 25, 2015 to 2019”
Alfred McCoy – The Real American Exceptionalism
Link to an article by Alfred McCoy:
Bonus link: William Blum, “The Greek Tragedy: Some Things Not to Forget, Which the New Greek Leaders Have Not”
Fear, Inc. 2.0
Link to a report by Matthew Duss, Yasmine Taeb, Ken Gude, and Ken Sofer of the Center for American Progress:
“Fear, Inc. 2.0: The Islamophobia Network’s Efforts to Manufacture Hate in America”
W.T. Whitney, Jr. – Child Health Care and the Class Divide
Link to an article by W.T. Whitney, Jr.:
“Child Health Care and the Class Divide: The Case of Florida”
Bonus link: “Ukrainian Healthcare and the Inept Reforms of New Ukrainian Westernizers”
Slavoj Žižek – In the Grey Zone
Link to an article by Slavoj Žižek on the Charlie Hebdo incident:
Bonus links: “Laughter in the Dark” (“And here we confront Charlie Hebdo’s greatest failing, not that its cartoonists mocked the Prophet or skewered the Mullahs, but that the magazine became a tool of the ruling order, aiming its most savage work at the most vulnerable citizens of France: the weak, the marginalized and the dispossessed. In the end, Charlie Hebdo, like much of the French intelligentsia, became an agent of orthodoxy, a persecutor of the poor and the powerless, deaf to their desperation.”) and “The Red Flag and the Tricolore”
Rob Urie – Wall Street and the Crisis in Greece
Link to an article by Rob Urie:
“Wall Street and the Crisis in Greece: When Only Bad Choices Remain”
Bonus link: “Putin: U.S. Hegemony at Root of Ukraine Crisis”
Johann Hari – The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered
Link to an article by Johann Hari:
“The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think”
Eva Golinger – Venezuela: Coup in Real Time
Link to an article by Eva Golinger:
“Venezuela: Coup in Real Time”
Bonus links: “John Pilger Interviewed by Michael Albert”