Interview

LF Interview: Ivelin Sardamov- Amused to Death/The False Promise of the Information Age

Still crunched for time. Apologies to all. I managed to listen to another interview today that is, again, worth sharing.About an hour in length covering Mr Sardamov's new book  Mental Penguins – The Neverending Education Crisis and the False Promise of the Information Age.With thanks to Legalise freedom for making this interview freely available!

Electoral Politics in America, Noam Chomsky, and the Core Commitments of the Enlightenment

Noam ChomskyJohn Halle is the Director of Studies in Music Theory and Practice at Bard College. He joined the faculty of Bard after serving for seven years in the music department at Yale University. As an active composer and theorist, his scholarship focuses on connections between the mental representation of language and music. Halle is also known for his political writings and collaboration with Noam Chomsky.

On “Independence”: Catalonia, Kurdistan, North Korea and Latin America

Alessandro Biancchi:  Self-determination of peoples and respect for the borders and sovereignty of a country. This is of the most complicated issue for international law. How can it be articulated for the case of Catalonia?
Andre Vltchek: Personally, I’m not very enthusiastic about smaller nations forming their own states, particularly those in the West, where they would, after gaining ‘independence’, remain in the alliances that are oppressing and plundering the entire world: like NATO or the European Union.