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The Green Train - Witness
Filmmakers: Rashed Radwan and Carmen Marques' Once upon a time Iraq boasted an extensive railway network criss-crossing the country.
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Guest blogger Steven Spadijer, of Australian National University, continues with Part Two of his series on Direct Democracy. Part One is available here . In today’s post I’ll examine the role direct democracy has on informing the people .
Weekend Musing: Direct Democracy and Voters - macrobusiness.com.au | macrobusiness.com.au
Weekend Musing: Direct Democracy and Economics - macrobusiness.com.au | macrobusiness.com.au
Guest blogger Steven Spadijer presents a multi-part series on Direct Democracy to start off the Weekend Musing articles for 2012. In this first post he examines the empirical evidence, speficially the economic impact versus a “representative” democracy. The second post will confront the questions regarding the intelligence of voters, particularly the information-rich environment effect on voter knowledge and interest in politics.Hackgate, power elites and the limits of the “corruption” critique
The real significance of the "hackgate" scandal in the UK is in revealing an underlying truth about the governing classes and their mode of rule which anyone who’d been paying attention has known all along.
This weekend The Chronicle of Higher Education published an opinion piece by Michael Morris arguing that in the name of campus security campuses should start data mining all student internet traffic.
Making the University a Police State
'The Fate of an Honest Intellectual', by Noam Chomsky (Excerpted from Understanding Power)
I'll tell you another, last case—and there are many others like this. Here's a story which is really tragic.University Inc. corporate corruption of Research & HE
“We need a wholesale revision of how a democracy both listens to and treats young people.” [1] The global reach and destructiveness of neoliberal values and disciplinary controls are not only evident in the widespread hardships and human suffering caused by the economic recession of 2008, they are also visible in the ongoing and ruthless assault on the social state, workers, unions, higher education, students, and any vestige of the social at odds with neoliberal values. Under the regime of market fundamentalism, institutions that were meant to limit human suffering and misfortune and protect the public from the excesses of the market have been either weakened or abolished, as are many of those public spheres where private troubles can be understood as social problems and addressed as such. [2] Privatization has run rampant, engulfing institutions as different in their goals and functions as public schools and core public services, on the one hand, and prisons, on the other.
Beyond the Limits of Neoliberal Higher Education: Global Youth Resistance and the American/British Divide | Truthout
Naomi Wolf: Fascist America, in 10 easy steps | World news
Last autumn, there was a military coup in Thailand. The leaders of the coup took a number of steps, rather systematically, as if they had a shopping list.Shock Doctrines
Activists: Gabriela Romano, Jenny Lujan and Marcela Crabbe
How to Stop a Multinational - Activate
In a noted 2008 essay, Mark Fisher reflected on the pervasive sense of capitalism’s permanence, a feeling he termed “capitalist realism.” But despite its gloomy tone, the piece ended on a note of hope: The very oppressive pervasiveness of capitalist realism means that even glimmers of alternative political and economic possibilities can have a disproportionately great effect. The tiniest event can tear a hole in the grey curtain of reaction which has marked the horizons of possibility under capitalist realism.