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• The Real Tyranny Of Numbers

  
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  Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury, Henry Rotich, yesterday unveiled a budget which included measures to reintroduce the controversial VAT Bill which, he says, seeks "reduce the cost of compliance" with our tax collection mechanisms. This Bill, which will likely see a large increase in the price of basic ...
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• Thursday Links

  
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  * 21st Century America summed up in a single headline:  Why Is a Defense Contractor Paying for Sesame Street’s Parents-in-Jail Lesson? * If Only This Goes On: science fiction and modernity in Russia. * Intact fallout shelter discovered in California backyard.  More links follow the image. *  ...
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• Metadata and the security state

  
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  Cenk Uygur on how our intrepid Fourth Estate is reacting to the domestic spying stories, The Establishment Strikes Back The Young Turks 06/11/2013: Richard RJ Eskow of the Campaign for Americas Future (CAF) in How Dangerous is the Security/Digital Complex? C&L 06/12/2013 and Stephen Walt in The ...
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• Wednesday Links: Cold War Modern Art, The Cutest Kitties, and More

  
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  * Modern art as weapon in the Cold War. And they say the humanities are worthless! Why did the CIA support them? Because in the propaganda war with the Soviet Union, this new artistic movement could be held up as proof of the creativity, the intellectual freedom, and the cultural power of the US. Russian art, ...
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• Late Night Tuesday

  
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  * Duke’s Jebediah Purdy:  Why I Got Arrested in Raleigh: The States Are the New Front Line. * Authoritarianism from the inside. More from Corey Robin. The Vain Media Cynics of the NSA Story. *  Under the provisions of his Tax-Free NY scheme, most of the 64 campuses of the State University of New York ...
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• Voodoo austerity economics has failed miserably in the UK, yet despite all the evidence, Osborne, and now Balls, refuse to recognise it.

  
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  Since Shinzo Abe came to power, the Japanese stock market has risen an astonishing 50% in 5 months, and the replacement of the fatalism which has dogged Japan’s economy by a new burst of policy activism has profound implications for the UK. There is another precedent for this policy activism other than the General ...
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• Tuesday!

  
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  *  OK, let us persist in the notion that I am an American citizen. Let us persist in the notion that I am the citizen of a self-governing political commonwealth. Let us persist in the notion that I have a say — and important and equal say — in the operation of my government here and out in the world. Let us ...
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• Are there "left-neoliberals"? Would they include the likes of The Nation?

  
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  If you agree with this provocative piece by Warren Benn Michaels, as I do, youll agree that those two rhetorical questions both deserve "yes" answers. First, Benn defines the issue of left-neolibs versus right-neolibs The differentiation between left and right neoliberalism doesn’t really undermine the way it ...
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• An excursion through the partitions of Taksim Square

  
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  Taksim Meydanı . Partition Square. Although it has taken on potent new resonances in recent days, the name of Istanbul’s throbbing central plaza commemorates a now-forgotten history, the function of the site during the Ottoman period as a point of “partition” and distribution of water lines from the north of ...
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• Everyday Im çapuling: on Taksim, and #occupygezi

  
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  Let Us Dot the i and Cross the t: Insurgence and the End of Tough Love Politics in Turkey : As I type out these words, it is the tenth day of the anti-government protests in Turkey. Beginning at that rather inconspicuous and under-visited park, protests have gone viral and spread to more than twenty provinces. For ...
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• UTOPIA OF ENDLESS EXPLOITATION

  
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  An eloquent description of our modern dilemma by Pierre Bourdieu The essence of neoliberalism What is neoliberalism? A programme for destroying collective structures which may impede the pure market logic. Written as a opinion piece in Le Monde December 1998 , Bourdieu lays out in plain language the ...
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• Eric Mazur and the Suppression of a Utopian Past

  
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  The past few days my institution has been hosting Eric Mazur , a Harvard physicist who has made a name for himself in the world of “flexible learning” for his tweaks to the university lecture format to create what is sometimes called a “flipped classroom.” His visit was much hyped by the university, ...
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• ‘Make The Economy Scream’: On Economic Terrorism

  
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  In this Sept. 11, 1973 photo, La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, is bombarded by military jets during a coup against President Allende’s government — a moment when economic terrorism became straight-up, violent terrorism. (AP/File) Investigative journalist Naomi Klein, in her book The Shock ...
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• Thursday Night Bummerwatch

  
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  * With all the bad news today, this is the one that really breaks my brain:  Texas Says It’s OK to Shoot an Escort If She Won’t Have Sex With You.  That’s completely lunatic. I just can’t believe it’s a real event that happened. * My friend Brent Bellamy has a working bibliography of U.S. ...
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• The purpose-driven life

  
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  Every summer, I come down with a case of existential angst. As the immediate demands of the school year slow down and the space for some self-directed work opens up, it seems that broader questions inevitably open up as well — what is the point of all my work? I eventually get over it as I become absorbed in ...
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• Angela "Frau Fritz" Merkel and the neoliberal depoliticization of politics: "asymmetrical demobilization" in the German case

  
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  Im dubious about the claims of a recent biography of German Chancellor Angela "Frau Fritz" Merkel that tries to suggest that she was a much dedicated to the old East German Communist regime than was previously known: Das erste Leben der Angela M. by Ralf Georg Reuth und Günther Lachmann. But Im more impressed by ...
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• Attack on Obesity Starts Before Life: (At Least) 5 Problems

  
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  This is a guest post by George Parker: 5 quick-fire reasons why I have a problem with the public health approach reported in the New Zealand Herald today under the headline: ‘ Attack on obesity starts before life ’: 1.      The studies were based on animal experimentation (sheep) and there are ...
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• Tuesday Links

  
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  * “A higher education system worth defending or reclaiming has never existed”:  Education’s “The Emperor Wears No Clothes” Moment. * This piece is admirably forthright about what’s at stake with MOOCs. How can this lead to cost reductions? The savings can accrue rapidly if the course is massively ...
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• Facing Off: The Integration of Capital vs The Integration of Peoples in the Americas

  
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  From a speech by João Pedro Stédile, Co-coordinator of the Landless Workers Movement of Brazil Edited by Beverly Bell João Pedro Stédile is an economist, co-founder and co-coordinator of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) of Brazil, and leader among Latin American social movements. He gave the following talk ...
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• Wisconsin Falls Behind On Job Creation: Is It Governor Walker’s Fault?

  
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  Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Andy Manis) Despite Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s promise to revitalize a stagnant economy by creating 250,000 new jobs , Wisconsin is in a state of economic decline. According to recent economic reports, the Badger State has trailed the national pace of ...
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