Archive for July, 2010
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Friday, July 30th, 2010http://darwiniana.com/2010/07/30/when-in-the-course-of-human-events-2/
What’s the point of ‘lost causes’?
Friday, July 30th, 2010http://darwiniana.com/2010/07/30/we-need-a-new-revolution-not-a-lost-cause/
The Secret of the Grain
Friday, July 30th, 2010“The Secret of the Grain” will be screened on the Sundance Channel on the following dates: http://www.sundancechannel.com/films/500543322/ Movie Review: “The Secret of the Grain” (Abdellatif Kachiche, 2007) The precarious status of North African immigrants in France grounds the complex family drama that is “The Secret of the Grain.” Taking its title from the savory Fish [...]
The new normal
Thursday, July 29th, 2010http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jul2010/econ-j29.shtml The “new normal”: More than one in five Americans at risk of destitution By Barry Grey 29 July 2010
War criminals of the Labour government…
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010Anglo-American Political Philosophy 101 The Poor Must Die By CHRIS FLOYD News from Blighty: the disparity in death rates between the well-off and the poor in the UK is now greater than at any time since 1921. The London Review of Books points to a new study by the British Medical Journal that shows that [...]
Neoclassical ‘crackpot’ economics
Sunday, July 25th, 2010American stupidity, darwinism, and neoclassical crackpot economics
Why were resources expunged from neo-classical economics?
Friday, July 23rd, 2010Why were resources expunged from neo-classical economics? Update: Read Martin Wolf’s conclusions on the debate Something strange happened to economics about a century ago. In moving from classical to neo-classical economics — the dominant academic school today — economists expunged land — or natural resources. Neo-classical value theory — based on marginalism and subjective valuation [...]
Co-opting the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010by Darwin BondGraham No medium of propaganda is as powerful and effective as film. Think of the classics, the most notorious efforts to sway the public with the electrifying and collective passion of cinema: racial apartheid was justified in the US with Birth of a Nation. The Soviets glorified their revolution with The Battleship Potemkin. [...]
Fur, Fortune, and Empire
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010http://www.salon.com/books/nonfiction/index.html?story=/books/feature/2010/07/20/fur_fortune_and_empire_eric_jay_dolin Tuesday, Jul 20, 2010 09:15 ET “Fur, Fortune, and Empire”: How the fur trade shaped America Animal pelts helped create our nation — and spawn a global power struggle. A fascinating new book explains how
Mood sours on capitalism
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-13/-capitalism-not-so-sacred-to-americans-as-downturn-sours-mood-polls-show.html `Capitalism’ Not So Sacred to Americans as Mood Sours By Mark Drajem – Jul 13, 2010
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