1848+: Last and First Men

  Published on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 by Common Dreams Leading Intellectuals Call for ‘Global Democracy’ to Challenge Corporate Globalization – Common Dreams staff Well-known intellectuals from over ten countries, citing the failure of nation-states and international institutions to halt the destructive trends of environmental destruction and corporate-driven globalization, have initiated a ‘Manifesto for Global [...]

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Published on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 by The Guardian/UK What We Know After Rio: Governments Have Given Up on the Planet by George Monbiot It is, perhaps, the greatest failure of collective leadership since the first world war. The Earth’s living systems are collapsing, and the leaders of some of the most powerful nations – [...]

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June 26, 2012 A Free Pass for Financial Predators by ROBERT HUNZIKER The American plutocratic revolution is now complete. The proof is: There are no criminal charges for the housing bust and financial meltdown of 2008. Starting with Reagan in the 1980s, as of today the Right has won their decades-long overthrow for complete control [...]

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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jul/12/violent-visions-slavoj-zizek/ via marxmail The Violent Visions of Slavoj Žižek July 12, 2012 John Gray Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Žižek Verso, 1,038 pp., $69.95 Living in the End Times by Slavoj Žižek Verso, 504 pp., $22.95 (paper)

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14 Rules For Revolt — Or What I Learned from the Front Lines of the 1960s In 2011, a new wave of global citizen activism, fed in part by Occupy Wall Street, helped reveal a link between the sixties and the present. http://www.alternet.org/activism/155739/14_rules_for_revolt_–_or_what_i_learned_from_the_front_lines_of_the_1960s/?page=entire June 5, 2012 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: [...]

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marxmail http://latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-brazil-slave-labor-20120607,0,6915794.story Brazil’s slavery victims are promised work and find themselves toiling in brutal conditions for little or no pay in the Amazon. A culture of impunity persists. By Vincent Bevins, Los Angeles Times 5:06 AM PDT, June 7, 2012 ACAILANDIA, Brazil — After months of chopping down trees in the forest without pay and [...]

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The Failure of Occupy Wall Street Huffington Post The "Occupy" Factor: Successful protest movements aren't about occupation, per se. This movement was too tied to its home base, a small symbolic tent-city near Wall Street, and in other similar parks in Boston, San Francisco and other cities. See all stories on this topic » Occupy [...]

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