Thanatopolitics in Greece: when a fascist ruling the ministry of health handles public health over to a private business
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Another organized crime-act, performed under the austerity pre-text, legitimized by the punitive rationales of conservatives and neoliberal economics. Thanatos [than–uh-tos, -tohs], meaning ‘death’ in Greek. Thanatopolitics is a philosophical term that discusses the politics organizing … |
Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis (Documentary)
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This is a nice Swedish documentary describing the capitalist crisis by following the course of recent financial bubbles with special focus of US government political decisions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ECi6WJpbzE
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Does Europe need a general strike?
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Yes. European citizens need a general strike. We need to interrupt Europe’s economy for at least one day. We need to show we won’t tolerate any longer the financial terrorism and social blackmail that, banks, corporations and their puppet governments … |
Less healthcare, but Greece is still buying guns (Roxane McMeeken)
Greeks furious at ‘intact’ arms spending as eurozone leaders insist on cuts to their public servicesRoxane McMeeken
Athens Sunday 06 November 2011 As Greece is forced by European leaders to abandon a referendum to allow the people the chance |
Europe's revolution from above (Étienne Balibar)
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Europe’s revolution from aboveWednesday 23 November 2011 The EU’s new technostructures are embarking on a strategy to protect the euro that could fundamentally change its institutions The Franco-German ‘directorate’: Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel. Photograph: David Ramos/Getty Images
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Manifesto of the appalled economists
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6/8/2010
Click here for the french version Click here for the web site of the appalled economists First signatories : Philippe Askenazy (CNRS) ; Thomas Coutrot (scientific council of ATTAC) ; André Orléan (CNRS, EHESS, president of the French Association |
The new spirit of capitalism (Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello, 2005)
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Why is the critique of capitalism so ineffective today? In this major work, the sociologists Eve Chiapello and Luc Boltanski suggest that we should be addressing the crisis of anticapitalist critique by exploring its very roots. Via an unprecedented analysis … |
What Conservatives Really Want (George Lakoff)
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The central issue in our political life is not being discussed. At stake is the moral basis of American democracy: http://georgelakoff.com/2011/02/19/what-conservatives-really-want/ George P. Lakoff (born May 24, 1941) is an American cognitive linguist and professor of linguistics at the University … |
The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism by David Harvey
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Taking a long view of the current economic crisis, eminent academic David Harvey explains how capitalism came to dominate the world and why it resulted in the current financial crisis. For three centuries, the capitalist system has shaped western society, … |
