Here’s a little taste of the articles i’ve been reading online lately. Firstly, i’ve been curious about what obama is gonna do as the new emperor of the world. I think it’s a good bet that the character of his appointees will indicate his direction. Along those lines, check out what Paul [...]
First, because i think the market is such a joke, i thought i’d post this: John Bird and John Fortune doing a comedy skit about markets. But on the serious side, here’s an article about “Counterparty risk”, which seems to be the reason that the US government is so willing to bail out [...]
While the news here seems to be about russia invading, there seems to be less attention on the US training and military partnership with the free-market-loving georgian government. Their military expenditures have increased drastically lately, and the region is of strategic importance for oil pipelines. Here are two articles that i read today, [...]
Just in case you’ve never heard about all the shady things that the political police do, check out this article about the FBI using paid informants to infiltrate vegan potlucks. Yes, that’s right, if you don’t want to eat animals, then the government basically views you as a terrorist. Relatedly, there’s also [...]
I just found an interesting article on current events in India, called “From Champaram To Rajghat : A Pilgrimage To Save Seeds, The Land And Our Farmers“, by Vandana Shiva. In it, she compares the current corporate practice of patenting seeds and forcing farmers to buy new seeds every year instead of saving them, [...]
I’m currently reading “Energy and Equity” by Ivan Illich. In it, he’s discussing the idea that people who use more than a certain amount of per capita energy tend to be enslaved by the social relations that result from all the of infrastructure and centralized political power that delivers the ability to consume that [...]
Just an update with a few interesting blogs and articles i’ve found lately, or that i’ve been re-reading.
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog. some good stories and links about food security, etc.
Peace, Earth, and Justice News, based in Victoria.
Vancouver Community Gardens google group. There’s been talk of starting an “urban food growers coop” to facilitate increased [...]
Here’s some stuff i’ve been reading and watching lately:
Diary, by Yonatan Mendel (in the London Review of Books), about Israeli journalism. An excellent article about the way language in the media is biased, and especially informative about how the views of israelis are manufactured.
The Most Wanted List, by Chomsky, about international terrorism
Cuba and the [...]
Here’s an interesting article entitled Kosovo and the politics of recognition, which has some nice background on the Kosovo/Serbia situation and how the politics of this situation relate to other similar situations. Lately i’ve been really tired of the vacuous CNN and AP articles that say absolutely nothing about the situation except a raw [...]
I’m currently reading an interesting book called “Linguistic Imperialism”, and i thought i’d post some quotes that the author included. The section i’m reading is about how imperialism is not purely a political arrangement or an economic arrangement exclusively, but can have a combination of those along with various racist attributes and linguistic directions [...]