During the occupation of Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, the New-York Historical Society gathered discarded ephemera, building a physical record of the protests.
The September 11, 2001, terror attacks by Al Qaeda were meant to harm the US, and they did, but in ways that Osama bin Laden probably never imagined. President George W.
Emerging amongst the detritus of failing financial institutions and the war stained ambitions of global corporate giants, is a growing awareness that we have almost completely neglected the resources we have available to us right in front of our eyes; that a global problem often has a local solution and that this solution might not involve a seemingly inevitable descent into a lowly and disagreeable struggle to survive. On the contrary, it could lead to a more honest and simple approach to life which could enrich, rather than impoverish, the spirit while redeeming a lost sense of connection with the natural world.
The term "revolution" has been so relentlessly cheapened in common usage that it can mean almost anything. We have revolutions every week now: banking revolutions, cybernetic revolutions, medical revolutions, an internet revolution every time someone invents some clever new piece of software.
Real change will come when we can talk with others who don’t think like us. I’m surrounded with people in my workplace and community who don’t think about sustainability and don’t really know what the terms means. Talking with those who don’t yet embrace sustainability or have decided it is a “hoax” is important work we all need to develop the courage and skills to do. Skills lead to courage so my hope is that the following suggestions can help you develop some skill in this area.
Slovenian philosopher and critical theorist Slavoj Zizek on Occupy Wall Street, capitalism, Western culture and global politics (Time to start thinking and asking the right questions http://t.co/IeYubKwl...
The Atlantic Wire covers news, opinion and aggregates content on business, politics, entertainment, technology, global and national on the official site of The Atlantic Wire (RT @evgenymorozov: @BostonReview worse: a self-hating Rorty-praising...
"Anyone who is familiar with the internal dynamics of the movement knows that this is not the case. Even if some occupations have released lists of demands, the entire question is bitterly contested in New York, where only independent organizations such as labor unions have released their own demands. In this essay, we claim that far from being a strength, the lack of demands reflects the weak ideological core of the movement. We also claim that demands should not be approached tactically but strategically, that is, they should be grounded in a long-term view of the political goals of the movement, a view that is currently lacking."
No figure among the capitalist restorationists in the East has won more adulation from U.S. officials, media pundits, and academics than Vaclav Havel, a playwright who beca... (Michael Parenti: Must We Adore Vaclav Havel?
Slavoj Žižek is regarded as one of the ideological pioneers of the Occupy movement, but he says its demands don't go far enough. Žižek sees no future for cap...
If there’s one thing most people can agree on these days it’s that political reporting has gone to the dogs. Even some of my colleagues subscribe to this view. In a Daily Comment last week, George Packer had a rip at the reporters covering the Republican primaries, lamenting that they no longer cover real issues but merely treat politics as light entertainment.
Joe Stiglitz has a Vanity Fair piece on the parallels between our situation now and those in the Great Depression. Various people, Jim Manzi, Arnold Kling, have been having some fun at the expense of the analysis.
Renowned linguist, author, and dissident intellectual, Noam Chomsky, talks about the current state of the economy, the assault on social welfare programs and...
[...] in a better world, President Obama would face a challenger offering a serious critique of his job-creation policies, and proposing a serious alternative.
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