1848+: Last and First Men

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

[Read more →]

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 usual lucid style (he has
helped me [...]

[Read more →]

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 department in Jefferson County, Alabama. Pack [...]

[Read more →]

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 the historical record— [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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 them [...]

[Read more →]

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.

[Read more →]

Two emails from sciftp

[Read more →]

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

[Read more →]

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?

[Read more →]