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Entries from April 2010

Ayn Rand influences Wall Street

April 26th, 2010 · No Comments

http://www.alternet.org/story/146611/ Taibbi: The Lunatics Who Made a Religion Out of Greed and Wrecked the Economy By Matt Taibbi, The Guardian Posted on April 26, 2010, Printed on April 26, 2010

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Pinko-Commies in Camouflage

April 25th, 2010 · No Comments

Watch Out for Those Pinko-Commies in Camouflage by Christopher Ketcham counterpunch.org (April 22 2010) I got into an e-mail conversation recently with a former CIA officer and ex-Marine, who, in horror at the Obama administration, went into a Tea Partyist fit denouncing the “communists, socialists, wealth redistribution folks, Democrats in Congress”. This was not his [...]

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Taibbi on banks

April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

How the nation’s biggest banks are ripping off American cities with the same predatory deals that brought down Greece by Matt Taibbi Rollingstone.com (Issue 1102, April 15 2010) If you want to know what life in the Third World is like, just ask Lisa Pack, an administrative assistant who works in the roads and transportation [...]

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Landes: globalization

April 21st, 2010 · No Comments

http://www.wilsonquarterly.com/article.cfm?AID=1613 The Enterprise of Nations by David S. Landes Critics have tried to explain away the West’s centuries- long economic domination of the globe; they would do better to study its lessons. Western entrepreneurship and technological progress go back centuries and have changed the world for the better. That, at least, is one assessment of [...]

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The invisible–nonexistent–hand

April 17th, 2010 · No Comments

The Non-Existent Hand Joseph Stiglitz Keynes: The Return of the Master by Robert Skidelsky Allen Lane, 213 pp, £20.00, September 2009, ISBN 978 1 84614 258 1 It has become a commonplace to say, in the aftermath of the Great Recession, that ‘we are all Keynesians now.’ If this is so, then Keynes’s great biographer, [...]

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Call for 5th Internationale

April 14th, 2010 · No Comments

History of the Marxist Internationals (conclusion, the call for a Fifth International) Despite the tidal wave of commentary on Hugo Chavez’s call for a Fifth International during a conference of left parties in Caracas on November 19-21, 2009, it is difficult to find his actual words. Thanks to Australian activist Roberto Jorquera, you can read [...]

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Roadmap to a New Economics

April 13th, 2010 · No Comments

By Riane Eisler Roadmap to a New Economics: Beyond Capitalism and Socialism We can all be leaders in building a social and economic system that really meets human needs.

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Stalinist leftism

April 4th, 2010 · No Comments

Two emails from sciftp

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Crisis: the motor of capitalism

April 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

http://www.truthout.org/the-crisis-motor-capitalism58234 Crisis: The Motor of Capitalism Monday 29 March 2010 by: André Orléan | Le Monde

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Chomsky: Cognitive Science & Anarchism

April 1st, 2010 · No Comments

Cognitive Science & Anarchism ——————————————————————————– By Noam Chomsky Q: Do you currently see an elephant room of cognitive science, just like you named one 50 years ago — I guess that’s a reference to my critique of radical behaviorism — something that needs addressing that gets too little attention?

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