The Julian Assange Show: Noam Chomsky & Tariq Ali
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A surprise Arab drive for freedom, the West’s structural crisis and new hope coming from Latin America. That’s the modern world in the eyes of Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali, two prominent thinkers and this week’s guests on Julian Assange’s … |
Commons 2012 – Radical Squares 2 – George Caffentzis
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The debt crisis, Africa and the new enclosures – Silvia Federici
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That the debt crisis is a productive crisis for capital is nowhere as visible as in Africa. For the policies the debt crisis has generated have served to “rationalize” class relations, and to tackle the most vexed question of capitalist … |
"New Normal"? On bankers' communication attempts to normalize misery
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The latest Danske Bank’s communication strategy is full of images of unrest; the Occupy movement, protestors with stones and Greek flags against the police, images of slave workers in the world’s production lines, pictures of despaired citizens from across the … |
Saying ‘We’ Again: A Conversation with Jodi Dean on Democracy, Occupy and Communism
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By Thomas Biebricher & Robin Celikates Jodi Dean teaches political and media theory in Geneva, New York. She has written or edited eleven books, including Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies and most recently The Communist Horizon (Verso, October 2012). *… |
The Guardian: "Greece gave birth to democracy. Now it has been cast out by a powerful elite."
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By Kostas Vaxevanis The case against me and my magazine, Hot Doc, for publishing a list of alleged tax evaders is a symptom of Greece’s corruption. Photograph: John Kolesidis/Reuters/Corbis
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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 … |
Nothing is better than love: how not to repeat Weimar in Greece
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Rather than a fateful error arising from the jockeying of more centrist political agents, the Nazis’ victory was assured and sustained because capital needed their kind of idiots to pursue its (at that time) necessary kind of survival-through-suicide. It needed … |
Modern Greek nation: another moment of the founding myth’s collapse
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If the nation is primarily constituted around a spiritual principle as Renan argues, then Greece today finds itself in a quandary. If the nation bares a common past and ascribes in it a temporal consent that has to be indeterminately … |
Tariq Ali & Slavoj Žižek: The Crisis of Europe /// Subversive festival, Zagreb, 13/05/2012
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The opening of the 5th Subversive festival, and the first round table with Slavoj Žižek and Tariq Ali talking about the crisis in Europe, moderated by Srećko Horvat. A very interesting talk, analysing the economic crisis from economic, political, social … |
