The Social State in the Age of Global Capitalism (tags)
Welcome to techno-corporate feudalism-where the richest three Americans have more wealth than 160 million, where the wealthiest 86 have more wealth than 3.6 billion, where the foul-mouthed cancelled free school lunches for 1 million and where market distortions rule.
New Israeli Discriminatory Laws Tabled (tags)
Israel
THE BBC,THE NORMANS, THE PAPACY, THE TEACHING OF HISTORY AND US! (tags)
As one who watched both Professor Robert Bartlett's 'Normans' and Dan Snow's 'Norman Walks', let me say how much I enjoy the BBC's sense of history and these two items in particular. BUT CAN THESE AUTHORS SEE THE WOOD FOR THE TREES/
The Corporate State and the Welfare State (tags)
The idea of a "minimal state" may be passe. The author's two theses are: Liberalism is inconceivable without a strong state and liberalism undermines its own conditions of success. The modern welfare state is a child of democracy and can't be drowned in the bathtub.
Kosovo: A New Nation State Is Born (tags)
It only took the ethnic Albanians 50 years to become the majority and gain independence
Using Bhutto for Imperial Gain (tags)
Bhutto killed for imperial gain
Europe and the Power of Capital (tags)
"The economic form of neoliberalism is based on political decisions, not practical economic necessities.. Only the democratic nation state can show the economy its place entitling it to exist for people and not vice versa.."
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE BEHIND THE WAVING OF THE MEXICAN FLAG?
Sedition & Treason in the US Imperial State (tags)
But as I’ve said on radio shows before, these Democrats who are holed up in the Holiday Inn SHOULD have been arrested. Why? Because they were in clear violation of the relevant statutes of the sedition act as now revised and expanded, thanks to the USA Patriot Act.
The next time some clown tells you "War is good for the economy" remember this.
Gee, you think we should discuss police brutality soon? (tags)
NY City has a police brutality hotline. (646)336-6789 Should there be one in every city? Is this as epidemic as it feels? Sure seems like it!