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Neoliberalism, crisis and the world system
An insider glimpse of the conference that inspired this week's theme, plus an outsider view. Occupy Wall Street, Liberty Park, New York. Flickr/Aaron Bauer. All rights reserved.Introduction This week’s...
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Dandelions against neoliberalism
It is a commonplace that since the 1970s, capitalism has left the western working class as roadkill on the road to globalization. What is new about our contemporary moment is that the same is...
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Blue Heart
In the wake of the Trayvon Martin verdict, what will it take for racial healing in America? A personal tragedy touches off a powerful meditation on the costs of racism and the transformative effects of...
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How did Tamarrod topple the Muslim Brotherhood?
Tamarrod didn’t exclude any political faction from its mission, whether the armed forces, or National Democratic Party members “who weren’t convicted of any crimes”, as long as they shared the same...
View ArticleThe British Trident debate: an opportunity for progress?
The nuclear weapons debate in the UK has been steadily diversifying and maturing, but thus far has remained an elite, rather than truly electoral, issue. Tomorrow's publication of the Trident...
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Stealing Ramadan
As this conflict wears on, both the regime and the militias fighting it begin to resemble one another. For war-weary Syrians the only difference seems to be in the colours of their flags.Ramadan has...
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On exiles and the Holy Land
We Jews have a duty, and an urgent one at that, to think through what religious freedom means. The Kotel, the Western Wall, is the holiest site in Judaism. Every year, hundreds of thousands of Jews...
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Why European air space was closed to the Bolivian President
While European leaders have expressed outrage about the US eavesdropping on the communications of its citizens, for them to symbolically challenge the US is one thing; to challenge it substantively is...
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In Egypt's media: Two camps, one loser!
Not only the state-owned media avowedly backed the military after Morsi's ouster, but most of the Egyptian privately-owned TV stations and newspapers as well have embraced the military's...
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This week's window on the Middle East - July 15, 2013
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week, Stealing RamadanStealing Ramadan“So Egypt, what exactly do you...
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The end of a temporary advantage
Western powers are indeed trying to tell China how to behave, both implicitly and explicitly, but the idea of the West needs rethinking. A response to Xiaoyo Pu in the 'emerging powers and human rights...
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Serial killers/The Fall
We need a good reason to watch the stalking and slaughter of women, endlessly. And for this reviewer, Alan Cubitt didn't provide one.We need a good reason to watch the stalking and slaughter of women,...
View ArticleAfter 'The Fall'
The BBC needs to make a principled shift of resources in its drama offerings; less than it has spent in recent years in disposing of surplus bureaucrats.There is nothing a channel controller likes...
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On vocabularies of neoliberal economy - The Kilburn Manifesto
At the foundations of contemporary economics, we have neoliberal terms and definitions. In what way has this shaped our thinking, imposed its own logic on economic experience, and in what way can we...
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"Red Star Serbia, never Yugoslavia!" Football, politics and national identity...
In the years before the war football fans from the former Yugoslavia had a sort of premilitary training in the stadia. Soon they would exchange the flags and banners for rifles and bombs.A mural...
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Deeds, not words
Xiaoyu Pu’s article notes that Chinese foreign policy – including human rights negotiations – seeks “common ground while preserving differences.” This reflects a world lacking in moral authority, the...
View ArticleAlgeria: the real lessons for Egypt
For all its problems, Algeria never became an Islamic state. Like Algerian progressives in the 1990s, Egyptian progressives now have to carve out the space to construct a credible alternative under the...
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Neoliberalism and the revenge of the “social”
Neoliberalism was launched as an attack on socialism, as a state-centric project; it is now being subtly reinvented, in ways that take account of the social nature of the individual. The recent...
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Cloak and Dagger Inc.
Anything concealed from citizens, which also has absolute power over them, may be legal, but is not lawful, says Daniil Kotsyubinsky Laws are often unlawful - draconian, racist, mob or jungle. The...
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Older, anxious and white: why UKIP are the English Tea Party
UKIP addresses many of the anxieties that are surfacing within the UK, but what kind of social groups are they satisfying with their policies? IMAGE: Euro Realist Newsletter, some rights reservedIn...
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