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The end of the post-Cold War era
Submitted by unterschreber on Wednesday, 13 August, 2008 - 23:25
MK Bhadrakumar All-too-plausible explanation from Asia Times (http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/JH13Ag02.html) of Georgia's attack on South Ossetia (2,000 civilians killed and refugees made of another 30,000; a helping hand from US airlifts of 2,000 'essential' Georgian troops back from Iraq) in terms of the push to extend NATO into the Caucasus, which, as it says in the title, would 'end the post-Cold War era', permanently activating the military faultline along Russia's southwestern border and the course of the major Central Asian gas and oil pipelines. subject: Asia | Cold War | Energy Resources | Events | Information | Media | Neoliberal | Occupations | Oil | State | Strategy | War | War on Terror
The crisis of the global economy
Submitted by unterschreber on Wednesday, 13 August, 2008 - 00:56
Vasily Koltashov (Institute of Globalization and Social Movements, Moscow) An endless series of Experts have recycled their opinions in Credit Crisis Anniversary-Festschriften over the last few weeks, but this one from the Moscow Institute of Globalization and Social Movements (www.igso.ru) actually has a historical perspective stretching beyond the calendar year. Good account of consumer credit gigantism as short-term supplement to 30 years of falling real wages in the 'old' industrial world, and of high commodity prices as effect rather than cause of inflation (i.e. more money 'created' than commodities produced). subject: Credit | Debt | Economics | Energy Resources | Finance & Trade | Financial Crisis | Globalisation | History | Immigration | Liquidity | Markets | Money | Neoliberal | Oil | Politics | State | War
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 30 July, 2008 - 16:16
Mute 3-5pm, Sunday 3 August 2008. Upstairs at Publish And Be Damned self-publishing fair, Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, London E2. Free, no booking required. Does private-public funding and management of culture mark the death of institutional and critical autonomy? And is direct censorship an anomaly, the most visible form of a wider constriction of cultural freedom, or the shape of cultural policy to come? subject: Art | Cultural Industries | Institutional Critique | Neoliberal
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 30 July, 2008 - 11:02
Leo Singer and Clara Paillard
Reporting on t subject: Conferences | Gentrification | Neoliberal | Regeneration | Urbanism
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Submitted by mute on Thursday, 14 February, 2008 - 16:42
Elizabeth Povinelli On the pretext of a child sexual abuse crisis in Australia’s Northern Territory the Howard government passed emergency legislation and prepared a land invasion of aboriginal areas by police, doctors and the army. Elizabeth Povinelli locates this latest state of exception in a wider neoliberal project to impose work and austerity. Images and text box by Benedict Seymour
subject: Australasia | Biopolitics | Drugs | Law | Multiculturalism | Mute Vol 2 #7 | Nationalism | Neoliberal | Policy | Race
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Submitted by mute on Friday, 11 January, 2008 - 17:22
Loren Goldner Loren Goldner will be giving a talk on the subject of the Korean working class at Housmans bookstore in Kings Cross, London at 6pm on Saturday 19th of January. subject: Activism | AntiCapitalist | Asia | Class | Labour Struggles | Marxist | Neoliberal | Politics | Social Movements
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Submitted by mute on Thursday, 10 January, 2008 - 13:05
Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen on the struggles of 2007 in Denmark, the attempt to split the movement, the abyss between the streets and the shop floor, and the (false) problem of violence subject: AntiCapitalist | Neoliberal | Politics
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Submitted by unterschreber on Wednesday, 1 August, 2007 - 01:50
By F William Engdahl OK this is hardly a scoop – even Fidel Castro has got his two contraband cents' worth in – but the basic Green agenda of making the poor pay (more) for their own reproduction could hardly be better illustrated than by exponential basic food price inflation caused by transfer of essential agriculture to biofuel production. Environmentalism and 'neoliberal' capital are not strange bedfellows: they were joined at the pinhead from birth, as their shared hallucination of Scarcity goes to show. subject: Agriculture | Biology | Business | Economics | Energy Resources | Environment | Neoliberal | New Enclosures | Oil
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Submitted by unterschreber on Friday, 11 May, 2007 - 01:27
John Foster From Variant (http://www.variant.randomstate.org/28texts/poverty28.html), a concise account of the mediations through which political and financial macro-policy produces, for example, 'cold-death' in Scottish housing estates. Which amounts to a case study of non-replacement of resources -- or 'looting' -- in action. subject: Economics | Energy Resources | Europe | Finance & Trade | History | Markets | Money | Neoliberal | New Enclosures | Oil | State
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Submitted by mute on Thursday, 10 May, 2007 - 10:49
George Caffentzis Since 2004 the rhetoric of Bush’s republican party has turned curiously green, integrating climate change as a legitimation for neoliberal imperialism. At the same time the unintended consequence of America’s unsuccessful adventures has been to enrich an ‘anti-neoliberal’ class of oil rentiers in Africa, Latin America and Asia. George Caffentzis plots the changes in the US energy policy as it turns from eco-naysayer to ecowarrior
subject: Climate Change | Energy Resources | Globalisation | Government | Marxist | Nationalism | Neoliberal | Oil | Policy
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Submitted by unterschreber on Friday, 4 May, 2007 - 19:17
Prol-position Editorial from the latest Prol-position newsletter (for live links to the full articles go to: http://www.prol-position.net/) which covers the European labour frontline in depth before turning to Brazil and India... editorial subject: Class | Globalisation | Immigration | Insurgency | Labour Struggles | Marxist | Money | Neoliberal | Surveillance
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Submitted by unterschreber on Friday, 4 May, 2007 - 00:28
Henry C K Liu A pertinent reminder that the so-called 'housing bubble' isn't just a matter of subprime foreclosures and repossessions: the buyers of the 'financial products' through which mortgage debt is abstracted and redivided at the outer limits of algorithmic calculation are none other than private pension funds, so that capital's 'no alternative' answer to the pseudo-problem of the 'demographic bomb' may yet manage to create a real 'pensions crisis' where none need have existed Why the subprime bust will spread By Henry C K Liu subject: Banking | Business | Chaos | Fictitious Capital | Financial Crisis | Government | History | Money | Neoliberal | Policy | Precarity | Psychology
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Submitted by matthew hyland on Saturday, 13 January, 2007 - 07:31
Stephen Roach Morgan Stanley's Chief Economist creeps ever closer to acknlowledging the implicit content of his 'bear market' line. In fact this time he even includes a graphic purporting to map the quantitative 'battle between labor and capital', before disingenuously diverting the question into spurious terms like 'globalization and localization' and even more oddly imagining the 'labor' side of the 'battle' as something fought by 'pro-labor' politicians like Prodi, Zapatero et al. Notably absent are battle sites like Bangladeshi textiles, Chilean copper mines, etc., where elected repres subject: Class | Economics | Fictitious Capital | Labour Struggles | Money | Neoliberal | Strategy
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Submitted by matthew hyland on Wednesday, 25 October, 2006 - 23:58
Mike Davis As promised, Davis rolls out the opposite polarity to Planet of Slums: the inverted slum or gated Emirate. His description bristles with empirical insight, but the rhetorical antithesis between the 'global slum' (analysed from an 'objective' distance) and gilded/fortified hyperluxury (apparently experienced firsthand) remains problematic, especially as Davis is admirably insistent on the antislum's dependence on cheap indentured labour inside it. subject: Business | Class | Immigration | Labour Struggles | Middle East | Money | Neoliberal | New Enclosures | Psychogeography | State | Strategy | Surveillance | Urbanism
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Submitted by matthew hyland on Sunday, 22 October, 2006 - 17:24
Samuel Brittan Although he doesn't say so, Financial TImes columnist Samuel Brittan is effectively reclaiming the case for a 'basic income' from self-styled 'revolutionary realists' (Negri) or, to use Alex Foti's nauseating term, 'demoradicals'. Western real wages are 'inevitably' doomed to fall by globalization, says Brittan, but the general increase in accumulation should allow some of capital's 'gains' to be transferred to 'workers who would otherwise lose out', through a tax-funded wage supplement. subject: Economics | Labour Struggles | Money | Neoliberal | Policy | State
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