Monster
{bush, cart, war on terror}
I never knew it, but it seems that my childhood education at the United Nations International School (UNIS) in New York was really a “socialist-tyrannical indoctrination for the New World Order“! I guess that explains this blog … Where can I submit myself for reprogramming? {education, human rights, IB, international Baccalaureate, UNIS, united nations}
You gotta love any singer who can sing in English, Hindi, Icelandic, Danish, Arabic, and Konkani! Leoncie makes Björk look quite dull by comparison. A bunch of her songs are on iTMS and they’re really good! (via WFMU) {iceland, leoncie, music}
More proof that the New York Review of Books should hire me as a writer. Just after I wrote my post on “capitalisms” I came across this NYRB article by John Gray which reviews three books on globalization: Though the world’s diverse societies are continuously interacting, the proc-ess is producing a variety of hybrid regimes [...]
When I wrote my post, this past January, about farmer suicides in India, I had originally wanted to add information about the growing Maoist insurgency which is taking over huge swaths of rural India. At the time, however, I couldn’t find any reliable reports on the subject. The thing is, from what I had heard [...]
Union activists in NY have a giant inflatable rat they bring around to embarrass employers. Now the rat has its own flickr photo pool! (Via the WFP blog) {rat, strike, union}
According to John Berger (of Ways of Seeing fame, who is now a novelist living in France), the real masters of postmodern deconstruction are not leftists academics but centrist politicians. The following is an essay he wrote in response to a recent speech by Jacques Chirac: In the past political leaders, when addressing the nation, [...]
The TV show Lost is full of hidden clues, connections, and mysteries that serious fans can comb for clues. But who has the time? Fortunately for those of us who have only limited time to spend thinking about the real meaning behind the show, there is a truly impressive web site that carefully collects, categorizes, [...]
At the heart of France’s protests are efforts to reform the labor market. In light of that it is worth reading this article by Mark Weisbrot: The government claims that employers will hire more people if it is easier to get rid of them, and that therefore unemployment (especially among younger workers) will be reduced. [...]
Quotes like this one from the Economist are tiresome: It is true that the forces of global capitalism are not always benign, but nobody has yet found a better way of creating and spreading prosperity. I’m somewhat more sympathetic to quotes like this one from a recent interview with David Harvey: Capitalism is very much [...]