As you can tell from recent blogs, the readers of this website and I have been focused a lot on what we're calling "Disaster […]
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Yesterday, you'll recall, I took the opportunity of the recent storms to outline some definitions of "disaster capitalism" and to distinguish between what I […]
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This blog I had originally intended for yesterday, but as I wrote yesterday, my entire schedule of blogs and guests has been completely overturned […]
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High octane speculation or no high octane speculation, this one definitely has the foul odor of "disaster crapitalism", a.k.a. "disaster capitalism." In this case, […]
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Financial news seems to have been on everyone's minds this week, as I had more than the usual number of articles passed along about […]
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Mr. D.W. sent along this article from the Frankfurter Allgemeinezeitung. It's by Shoshana Zuboff, and it's lengthy, and very important, especially if you're concerned […]
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Today morning, The Hindu reported a decision of the Communist-led Kerala government: “The State Cabinet on Thursday decided to appoint a consultancy firm to guide in the post-floods reconstruction. The Cabinet is understood to have decided to appoint KPMG as its consultants on the subject.” KPMG? The one involved in the ‘economic reconstruction’ of Iraq? … Continue reading KPMG?
This week professor Isa Blumi joins me for an in-depth discussion of the economic and geopolitical history of Yemen. We cover the period between the mid 1800’s all the way through to the early 2000’s. Isa talks about the forgotten history of Yemen through out the conversation. We discuss Yemen’s role as a bulwark against imperialism, from its earliest days fighting against the British East India company to American oil conglomerates. Isa talks about North Yemen’s role as a progressive nation that supported everyone from the George Habash to Che Guevara.
ATHENS, GREECE and LAS PIEDRAS, PUERTO RICO – Until recently, the similarities were stunning.
Unless one lives in the alternate reality of religious beliefs, it has become impossible to deny and ignore a simple fact: very soon, perhaps within only two decades, humans will join the crowded groups of endangered species. While polar bears, lions, and elephants are solely the victims of men’s cruel and reckless stupidity, humans are collectively both the perpetrators and the ultimate victims of a self-inflicted mass genocide.
