May 14, 2013
Link: The Internet destroyed the middle class (and democracy)

Salon interview with Jaron Lanier on his new book Who Owns the Future?

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April 26, 2013
New Jacobin issue with Bhaskar Sunkara’s Fellow Travelers

New Jacobin issue with Bhaskar Sunkara’s Fellow Travelers

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April 20, 2013

With the 10M GBP Thatcher, this is what Slavoj Žižek wrote on her in The Newstatesman.

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April 20, 2013
Link: Giorgio Agamben on a Latin Empire versus German Hegemony

Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has revived the idea of a union of Southern European countries, a proposal first launched by another philosopher, Alexandre Kojève, just after World War II. This “Latin Empire” could act as a counter weight to the dominant role played by Germany in the European Union.

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March 26, 2013

Strike Debt: Freedom from Debt: The New American Dream on Creativetime Reports

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March 1, 2013
Link: Slavoj Žižek on Capitalism without Democracy, of Why the free market fundamentalists think 2013 will be the best year ever

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February 24, 2013

Austerity needs Fascism: Costas Lapavitsas reports for therealnews.com - Lower wages, high unemployment, taxation and slashing of services, creating situation like 1930’s with a dangerous rise of the extreme right

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November 30, 2012

The new OWS initiative of Rolling Jubilee - buying up distressed debt, bailing out the people not the banks.

Here is an article from The Nation by Andrew Ross and Astra Taylor, two members of Rolling Jubille

Read also Anna Altman for The New Yorker

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November 28, 2012
Link: Slavoj Žižek on how the Left lost the argument

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November 5, 2012
Oliver Ressler’s Elections are a Con posters which were to be displayed over a period of two weeks in Innsbruck, Austria as a series of city-light posters or on large billboards, have been censored by the Cultural Department of the Tyrolean Provincial Government last year. Especially for the US Presidential Elections tomorrow, here are 11 Excellent Reasons Not To Vote by Errol Morris.

Oliver Ressler’s Elections are a Con posters which were to be displayed over a period of two weeks in Innsbruck, Austria as a series of city-light posters or on large billboards, have been censored by the Cultural Department of the Tyrolean Provincial Government last year. Especially for the US Presidential Elections tomorrow, here are 11 Excellent Reasons Not To Vote by Errol Morris.

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