Neoliberalism

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• The Meaning of Seattle: Truth Only Becomes True Through Action

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 143
  By Walden Bello, ZNet , Nov 29, 2009 Source: YES! Magazine Walden Bello’s ZSpace Page WTO+10: Before 1999, the momentum of globalization seemed to sweep everything in front of it, including the truth. But in Seattle, ordinary women and men made truth real with collective action. It is ...
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• The Meaning of Seattle: Truth Only Becomes True Through Action

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 439
  By Walden Bello, ZNet , Nov 29, 2009 Source: YES! Magazine Walden Bello’s ZSpace Page WTO+10: Before 1999, the momentum of globalization seemed to sweep everything in front of it, including the truth. But in Seattle, ordinary women and men made truth real with collective action. It is now ...
  8 hours ago

• Red Toryism and Australias Neoliberal past

  
  Eurhythmania — Authority: 112
  British politics can be a useful guide for the direction that Australian political parties might head in. Thatchers neoliberal programme--of privatisations, anti-unionism, small government, personal responsibility allied to a strident nationalism and moral and social conservatism--was a model that the Australian ...
  2 days ago

• The “heart” of Neo-Liberalism, blah, blah, blah

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 466
  While I try to shrug off all this Neo-liberalism this , and Neo-liberalism that, as other blogsters are using fancy acronyms for Neo-liberalism as if they are busy making entries in the Merck manual, this one passage of qualifications and analogies from the Neo-liberal hating Levi Bryant I find interesting ...
  2 days ago

• Žižek Impression

  
  An und fr sich — Authority: 470
  Today I visited the Post Office to send some letters to discover they had implemented a new system. At the door you took a number and then when your number was called out you went to the window to post your letter, or whatever you needed to do. But this is precisely the same as it is before with the queuing in lines ...
  3 days ago

• Were Not Violent, How About You?

  
  American Leftist — Authority: 123
  If you watch this video, and many others available on YouTube and elsewhere, it becomes evident that UC students and UC police just barely avoided a violent incident during the occupation of of Wheeler Hall last Friday. According to George Cicariello-Maher : At around 6am on Thursday morning, UCPD became aware ...
  5 days ago

• The Neoliberal Restructuring of California State Government

  
  American Leftist — Authority: 123
  With last weeks 32% increase in fees for students of the University of California , the regressive transformation of California state government is almost complete. State workers such as myself, a predominately middle and lower middle class group, remain on furlough three days a month by order of the Governor. In ...
  6 days ago

• Buying Something You Already Own

  
  Ten Percent — Authority: 476
  Charities could take over post offices, pubs and parks, says shadow communities secretary Caroline Spelman. The Conservatives have pledged to introduce a ‘community right to buy’ that will allow not-for-profit groups to take control of struggling local facilities, such as post offices, pubs and parks. Under ...
  6 days ago

• More neo-liberalism or an alternative?

  
  UNITYblog — Authority: 133
  The just released Treasury report aimed at influencing the National government advocates a new round of neo-liberalism: cuts to government spending, tax reform (including raising GST and lowering company tax), privatisations of state-owned enterprises, etc. Rather than "closing income gaps" it will of course increase ...
  1 week ago

• California (How Neoliberalism Works)

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 486
  The current crisis in the UC system came up again and again at the recession conference this weekend, and not only because a certain former Duke Lit student seems to have the uncanny ability to insert himself, Where’s-Waldo-style, in the center of  every photo coming out of the student protests. How the ...
  1 week ago

• The Honduran Coup Never Happened (Part 6)

  
  American Leftist — Authority: 123
  As mentioned here earlier in the week , the US now seeks international acceptance for the results of the Honduran election under the coup regime, after having run out the clock on Zelaya. The pretense for such acceptance is the temporary departure of Robert Micheletti as President.
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• The Play of Fascist Objects: Object-Orientation and Latour: Updated

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 466
  Adriano has a really articulate comment he put up under my posting on Latour’s implicit Fascism, Fascist Bindings In Latour: The Blinding Glory of Non-Human Agency . I have to comment on this later, but his essential Bourdieu vs. Latour political point is certainly a compelling one. Its has a double-edged ...
  1 week ago

• Students Resist UC Fee Increases and Staff Layoffs

  
  American Leftist — Authority: 123
  Yesterday, after protests in Los Angeles where the police used pepper spray and tasers upon angry students , the Regents of the University of California ordered a 32% increase in fees over the next year . Undergraduate tuition will rise from $7,788 to $10,002 a year. Here is one account of the protests from ...
  1 week ago

• Full-length video of Dean Spade’s lecture, “Trans...

  
  sophie.tulane.edu — Authority: 152
  Full-length video of Dean Spade’s lecture, “Trans Politics on a Neoliberal Landscape,” delivered on February 9, 2009 at Barnard College. This video was created by the Barnard Center for Research on Women. For additional videos and podcasts of this event and others like it, please visit barnard.edu/bcrw .
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• Target Bad Banks and you target neo-liberalism starting to crack

  
  UNITYblog — Authority: 133
  by Vaughan Gunson The Big Four Australian owned banks (ANZ National, BNZ, Westpac and ASB) are hated for their tax dodging, interest gouging, fee charging and profit taking. The Bad Banks campaign initiated by Socialist Worker-New Zealand aims to connect with this popular “bank hatred” and begin to expose one of ...
  1 week ago

• Fascist Bindings In Latour: The Blinding Glory of Non-Human Agency

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 466
  – – I’m still reading and digesting the essay, but Steve Fuller’s critical treatment of Latour, with its deep investigation into the economic and political matrix out of which it came is extremely interesting reading, in particular for those that imagine that there is something inherently liberating by ...
  1 week ago

• Struggles Against Commodification of the Mind

  
  P U L S E — Authority: 575
  The free play of the mind has been managerialised. Holding our way of life to account has yielded to accountancy. The logic of the commodity has now penetrated into the sphere of human needs and nurture, breeding pathological symptoms there. In universities, as in transnational corporations, a largely disaffected ...
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• Neoliberalism and the Dynamics of Capitalist Development in Latin America By James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 520
  Dandelion SaladBy James Petras and Henry VeltmeyerAxisoflogic.comThursday, Nov 19, 2009Editor’s Note: All those interested in the political, economic and social directions being taken by the people and governments of Latin American states will do well to invest time in reading this treatise by James Petras and Henry ...
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• SEIU: No Dissent in the Labor Movement Allowed (Part 3)

  
  American Leftist — Authority: 123
  From BeyondChron : The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) held a boisterous picket line in San Francisco [on Monday night], but their chants targeted a surprising adversary: labor leaders and their political allies. While California Democratic Party Chair John Burton (labor’s greatest California ...
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• Imperial Hope

  
  Ten Percent — Authority: 476
  Via Otto @ IKN , Council on Hemispheric Affairs:-  Unsettling Revelations Regarding U.S. Lease of Colombian Military Bases It emphasizes the “opportunity for conducting full spectrum operations throughout South America” against threats not only from drug trafficking and guerrilla movements, but also from ...
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