Is Isis the ultimate evil? They would love you to think so
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by Owen Jones | Source: The Guardian Something about the term “barrel bomb” fails to convey the horror of the weapon. Perhaps it is the alliteration, which has a kind of playful quality; maybe it’s because we associate … |
This is Libertarian Communism Mr. Varoufaki
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The new minister of economics of Greece declared in Australia’s ABC radio that he is a “libertarian communist”. A reply couldbe posed by the words of Sebastien Faure, who explains what libertarian communism means. Libertarian Communism by Sebastien Faure 1903… |
The Racism of Intellectuals
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by Alain Badiou The record vote for far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in this year’s French elections stunned everyone and left them scrambling for answers. The political establishment has always had easy sociological explanations at hand. They blame the French … |
The Crisis and Experiment of the Commons: The New Rural Reconstruction Movement in China
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By Ou Ning* Outdoor film screening at Bishan Harvestival 2011. Photo by Hu Xiaogeng. When China joined the WTO in 2001, it became a part of the global economy. The Chinese government has warmly embraced globalization, pushing the process … |
Climate change, crisis, anti-ziganism: from floods in Romania to arson in Stockholm
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Niculaie, 64 years old, rumanian citizen, is in Högdalen. He was recently thrown out of his temporary home by Swedish police. This was ordered through the enforcement authority by the city hall of Stockholm. “In the place we used to … |
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 … |
The Ongoing Barbarism of Two Nationalisms: Hamas and Israel
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Hamas and Israel exploit their mutual weaknesses to revive their national agendas within the increasingly critical Middle East region (Reblogged from http://www.leftcom.org/en) The pundits are scrambling around to explain the “usual” crisis between Hamas and the State of … |
Sleepless Nights and Starry Skies
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Source: http://actforfree.nostate.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/SLEEPLESS-NIGHTS.pdf THE World Cup is not about football. If a country becomes a candidate for organizing this event, it is because football absolves the same function today as the spectacle of the gladiators did in ancient Rome, and because … |
Greece: Which is the private company G4S about to take over the security of detention centres
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By omniatv. Author: filistina Translator: Anna Papoutsi “Private firms providing “security services” will soon undertake the guarding of migrants’ detention centres, as well as the policing of “special” prisoners with monitoring devices, thus paving the way towards the privatisation of … |
The Reality Behind the Greek 'Success Story'
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by Julie Tomlin During over four years of economic crisis, many Greek people seem to have developed a keen sense of farce. The appearance of Greece’s health minister Adonis Georgiadis at an Imperial College London event titled “Turning the tide: … |
