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Submitted by mute on Friday, 15 August, 2008 - 12:28
Imogen O’Rorke As western audiences increasingly switch off from generic reporting of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Imogen O'Rorke finds the news-unworthy testimonies at Tate Modern a much needed corrective
subject: Art | Iraq | New Media Art | War | War on Terror
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 Mavis on Wednesday, 9 July, 2008 - 14:00
The French Group (Jean Aubert and Jean Baudrillard) (reposting from the new Gasworks Pipeline commentary & materials site - very contemporary counter-Green polemic from 1970) The French Group, which has been invited to this conference, has decided not to bring a positive contribution. The group believes that too many matters, and essential ones, have not been voiced here as regards the social and political status of Design, as regards the ideological functions and the mythology of environment. subject: Biopolitics | Class | Design | Environment | Politics | Postmodernist | Theory & Philosophy | War
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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. subject: Credit | Debt | Economics | Energy Resources | Fictitious Capital | Finance & Trade | Financial Crisis | Globalisation | History | Liquidity | Middle East | Money | Oil | State | Strategy | War
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Submitted by Mavis on Wednesday, 23 April, 2008 - 15:10
Glen Ford re-posting from the [reclaim-spaces] list, originally in Black Agenda Report Tear Down the Ghetto: The Price is Wrong What the misanthropic Jenkins calls a "small mental adjustment" is By Glen Ford The final crisis of capitalism is no longer looming: it has arrived with subject: Economics | Epidemic | Fictitious Capital | Financial Crisis | Slums | War
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Submitted by unterschreber on Friday, 18 April, 2008 - 20:06
Gary Leupp Overview of the maoist victory in the Nepalese Constitutent Assembly election by long-term observer and sympathiser Gary Leupp, a US academic and regular Counterpunch (www.counterpunch.org) contributor. It's not necessary to agree with Leupp that the maoists stand for 'communism' to recognize that the election result represents a major strategic success for the provisionally demilitarized 'people's war' and a geopolitical upheaval at the borders of India (where the Naxalite maoists continue to wage war) and China. More open to question, perhaps, is Leupp's claim that the event is o subject: Asia | Government | Insurgency | Site-Specific | Strategy | War
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Submitted by unterschreber on Monday, 24 March, 2008 - 02:53
Private Eye (In the Back section) From Private Eye, a brief update on the lie detector system soon to be used across the UK on suspected 'benefit thieves'*, i.e. all claimants. The system comes from Mossad, but what's really alarming is that it is administered by scorched-earth PFI war machine Capita. Outsourcing Lie–detector technology developed by Mossad for interrogating suspeted Palestinian terrorists is being used in British Jobcentres. subject: Biopolitics | Class | Identity | Information | Policy | Precarity | Psychology | State | Surveillance | Technology | War | Other
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 28 November, 2007 - 17:15
subject: Politics | War | War on Terror
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 28 November, 2007 - 15:33
Angela Mitropoulos The notion of the 'failed state' is recurrently invoked to justify military and security interventions. Reviewing two books which take so-called failed states in Africa and South America as their object of enquiry, Angela Mitropoulos questions the founding premises of 'successful' national sovereignty subject: Africa | Government | Insurgency | Latin America | Nationalism | Politics | Postcolonial | War | War on Terror
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Submitted by unterschreber on Wednesday, 15 August, 2007 - 21:36
Vijay Prashad In 'Lobster' 53 Robin Ramsay notes that the US 'military-industrial complex', in its perpetual need to generate enemies, "has just landed a big one: Africa". While the Bush administration has created the long-lobbied for Unified Command for Africa, it's the NGOs, Hollywood liberals, Clinton functionaries and other sundry 'multilateralists' of the Save Darfur Coalition who are leading the charge. subject: Africa | Energy Resources | Occupations | Oil | Strategy | War
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 26 June, 2007 - 12:05
subject: Architecture | Financial Crisis | War
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 26 June, 2007 - 12:03
subject: Art | Finance & Trade | Financial Crisis | War
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 26 June, 2007 - 11:59
subject: Art | Debt | Fictitious Capital | War
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Submitted by unterschreber on Friday, 4 May, 2007 - 20:59
Tony Wood From New Left Review, an overview of Putin's Russia which avoids the usual cliches about authoritarian nationalism versus oligarchic anarchy etc. While a state apparatus riddled (compared to, say, the late 'Soviet' Politburo) with serving security personnel is active at evey level of business, so representation of the business elite within the state has actually expanded significantly since the Yeltsin era. Unprecedented growth of state bureacracy is complimented by what some analysts call exceptional 'non-institutionalization' of public life, and certainly by the subject: Asia | Business | Chechnya | Economics | Energy Resources | Europe | Finance & Trade | Financial Crisis | Markets | Money | Nationalism | Oil | State | Strategy | War
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