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No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City
A fistful of research on the state of critical public art in the maelstrom of New Labour's regeneration programmes.
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The Enigma of Capital - mp3 recording of a lecture by David Harvey News & Analysis
Submitted by finn on Tuesday, 18 November, 2008 - 19:13

The Enigma of Capital

http://davidharvey.org/2008/11/the-enigma-of-capital/

A lecture by Professor David Harvey
City University of New York Graduate Center
November 14, 2008

David Harvey talks about Neoliberalism, class power and how capitalism is sustained.


Organs, Consent and the State News & Analysis
Submitted by Paul S on Tuesday, 18 November, 2008 - 17:56
Paul S

Until now i’ve held out against writing anything about the ‘opt-in/opt-out’ organ donation debate because, frankly, I had nothing to add. The case for switching to an opt-out system seemed so overwhelmingly strong that - apart from a few thin objections from the usual religious suspects - I hadn’t come across a single argument for not switching to opt-out worth responding to. Then I read Minnette Marrin's comment originally from the Sunday Times of 16th November.

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The Sleep of Realism Produces Monsters Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 30 September, 2008 - 14:24
Andrew Fisher

Giving a critical survey of the documentaries of Adam Curtis, Andrew Fisher evaluates the claims to realism and political neutrality made for his work, using the critical methodologies of Guy Debord and Georg Lukács

 

My job is not to try to change the world, but to describe it.i

 


The end of the post-Cold War era News & Analysis
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.


The crisis of the global economy News & Analysis
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).


Orientalism Inverted: The Rise of 'Hindu Nation' Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 30 July, 2008 - 18:22
Neil Gray

Is Indianness just a German ideology? In the first of a two-part analysis of neoliberalism in the subcontinent, Neil Gray traces the history of Hindu cultural nationalism, from a colonialist mystique of pure spirituality to today's fascist pogroms and economic polarisation

 


The NHS is 60: undervalued, under-funded, undermined OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by anthony on Wednesday, 25 June, 2008 - 11:04
Radical History Network of North East London

I'm posting Brecht's poem 'A Worker’s Speech To A Doctor' to draw attention to the recent publication of a pamphlet by the Radical History Network of North East London, The NHS IS 60: undervalued, under-funded, undermined.


How should the Middle East invest its oil profits? OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Tuesday, 24 June, 2008 - 20:50
Michael Hudson

Short article from Bahrain weekly 'The Gulf' in which the author of 'Super Imperialism' and 'Global Fracture' makes what is hardly the 'modest proposal' he pretends it is, and perhaps also gives a clue as to what he thought he was doing as 'economic adviser' to Denis Kucinich's presidential run. Hudson proposes that an unspecified bloc of 'Middle Eastern' state-capital should try to settle the dollar-standard blackmail once and for all by offering to buy the US out of the military infrastructure (i.e.


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