neoliberalism

Welcome to the 'neoliberalism' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'neoliberalism'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “neoliberalism”

• Some Notes on Globalisation

  
  Irish Left Review — Authority: 501
  One would have to lead the existence of an unrepentant hermit, allergic to our all pervasive media, to have avoided coming into contact with the much discussed and apparently novel new phenomenon of globalisation. Though, of course, globalisation can be traced back several centuries, at least, for political leaders ...
  11 hours ago

• This Was Not Suicide It Was Murder

  
  Ten Percent — Authority: 478
  A single mother leapt to her death with her baby because her only means of support was withdrawn, other benefits were denied and the local council then demanded she repay housing benefit. The verdict was suicide and unlawful killing of her baby, but this was murder, cheap cruel bureaucratic neoliberal fucking murder. ...
  1 day ago

• No Shit Sherlock

  
  Ten Percent — Authority: 478
  In London 93% of the population is in reach of eight or more megabytes per second, but in Wales it is 38.4%, while more than one quarter cannot access even two megabyte services. Lord Roberts of Llandudno “Figures show Wales is still lagging behind when it comes to broadband access and speed. We need to look ...
  2 days ago

• Obama jobs summit: “No money for jobs”

  
  All Over the Board — Authority: 413
  Original article , by Barry Grey, via World Socialist Web Site : Thursday’s White House summit on jobs was an open display of the callousness and indifference of President Barack Obama and the American corporate elite to the plight of the working class. Not that its any surprise. Obamas shown hes in the bosses ...
  2 days ago

• Obama job summit - more for show?

  
  SocraticGadfly — Authority: 146
  It seems like he, and his administration, such as Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, offered little of substance themselves . He is just not getting it, perhaps? Could this, we hope, kill neoliberalism? Beyond that, things like green jobs are good and fine, but not many will materialize in the next year or two. Lets start ...
  3 days ago

• Lewis Powell and neo-liberalism vs. socialist activism

  
  Though Cowards Flinch — Authority: 519
  The Powell memo was written by Lewis F. Powell to Eugene Sydnor, Director of the US Chamber of Commerce, in 1971. Powell was a member of the board of eleven corporations and was shortly to be nominated by President Richard Nixon to the US Supreme Court. I only came across this memo care of David Harvey , though it ...
  4 days ago

• Noam Chomsky to the University of Leeds, Resistance at Sussex University

  
  boredom is always counter-revolutionary — Authority: 112
  …the recent cut-backs in higher education seen in much of the world cannot simply be traced to economic problems. Rather, they reflect fundamental choices about the nature of the society in which we will live. If it is to be designed for the wealthy and privileged, mostly engaged in management and finance while ...
  5 days ago

• The Rose-colored Glasses are Coming Off

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 148
  about President Obama, but people shouldnt have been wearing them in the first place. Obama always had neoliberal leanings and never hid it. Its just that many people wanted to project their own ideas on this seemingly blank slate of a candidate, now president. But the information was always there for people to ...
  6 days ago

• The Americanisation of Eastern Europe

  
  Neil Clark — Authority: 124
  continues apace .... With rising unemployment, rising poverty, huge disparities of wealth and a massive increase in violent crime, is it any wonder that a majority of Hungarians (and not just my wife, Zsuzsanna ), believe that things were better before neoliberalism came to the country in 1989?
  6 days ago

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

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 142
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• 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 ...
  1 week ago

• Invitation to Bad Banks Exposure of ASB

  
  UNITYblog — Authority: 133
  ASB ain’t no “Kiwi bank”, protest their •interest gouging •profit taking •tax dodging •union bashing •and for turfing people out of their homes.12noon, Friday 11 December Outside ASB Bank, cnr Queen St and Wellesley St, Auckland Central. You will have noticed that the Big Four Aussie-owned banks have ...
  1 week ago

• Obamanomics

  
  American Leftist — Authority: 417
  From USA Today : The holiday shopping season may just prove a little merrier than expected. Investors are betting that upscale shoppers will open their wallets this Christmas season after pinching pennies a year ago. Shares in luxury retailers Tiffany, Saks and Nordstrom all rose Wednesday ahead of the official ...
  1 week ago

• Red Toryism and Australias Neoliberal past

  
  Eurhythmania — Authority: 115
  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 ...
  1 week 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 ...
  1 week ago

• Žižek Impression

  
  An und fr sich — Authority: 516
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Neoliberalism and the Dynamics of Capitalist Development in Latin America By Prof. James Petras and Prof. Henry Veltmeyer

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 147
  An analysis of the dynamics of capitalist development over the last two decades has been overshadowed by an all too prevalent “globalization” discourse. It appears that much of the Left has bought into this discourse, tacitly accepting globalization as an irresistible fact and that in many ways it is progressive, ...
  1 week ago

• Were Not Violent, How About You?

  
  American Leftist — Authority: 417
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Will Adults Join Students In Loan Reform Movement?

  
  The Freire Project - The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy — Authority: 129
  I was at an academic conference last Thursday morning when a lady announced to some sitting nearby, "Students have just occupied UCLA!" The reactions were mostly supportive of the actions taken by a generation of people so often demonized for what is believed to be widespread irresponsibility and nonchalance. It wasnt ...
  1 week ago

• The Neoliberal Restructuring of California State Government

  
  American Leftist — Authority: 417
  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 ...
  1 week ago

Comments about neoliberalism