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LifestreamFrom the Colbert Report on Comedy Central. Skip ahead to around 01.20 for a legendary summary of private health insurance and its use as a rationale for tax breaks. The same concept holds true for much of the promises made by the new political right, and not just in the US. It’s more than a […]
Archive for the 'Ideology' Category
January 27th. Around the globe, world leaders were eagerly falling into line, towing the Zionist line. We are urged to remember past atrocities. Well, just the one actually. One that happened to take place in the west and did befall white people. How original indeed.
So here we are with a Holocaust remembrance day out of […]
Few could have missed the Holocaust conference held this week in Teheran, Iran. Seldom have so many worked so diligently to belittle and malign a public event. An event which featured everyone from anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews to David Duke and Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The latter of course being misquoted once again as he predicted […]
The results are in. Not quite as offensive as one could have hoped or suspected. Nor did the contest elicit much public interest in Iran or anywhere else for that matter.
The US and Israel were of course quick to denounce the idea as “outrageous”, “an anti-Semitic and inhuman event” and added that Iran had “joined […]
Corruption Perceptions Index 2006
The 2006 Corruption Perceptions Index is a composite index that draws on multiple expert opinion surveys that poll perceptions of public sector corruption in 163 countries around the world, the greatest scope of any CPI to date. It scores countries on a scale from zero to ten, with zero indicating high levels […]
A Medialens Alert - On the structural determinism of the corporate system, the “liberal herring”, the need for corporate power to defang democracy by means of propaganda or deceit and the longstanding tradition of using military force to create, pacify foreign markets.
The Australian social scientist Alex Carey summed up the evolution of political power in […]
The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway lead the way in the annual Center for Global Development (CGD) report on the efforts to improve the lot of developing nations.
The CGD’s measures a broad number of factors for the index, rather than merely the amount of aid countries provide.
It also examines several policy areas - such as trade […]
Joseph Stiglitz examines the remarkable growth of China’s economy and notes that
Market economies are not self-regulating. They cannot simply be left on autopilot, especially if one wants to ensure that their benefits are shared widely. But managing a market economy is no easy task. It is a balancing act that must constantly respond to economic […]
Common Dreams: Would Europeans really benefit from an American-style economy or has the discourse been hijacked by neoclassical liberals on both sides of the Atlantic? And for that matter, is the American economy doing all that well or is that just a smoke screen as well?
More than a million people in France have taken to […]
Or Kid Politics in other words. Can rough ideological inclinations be observed at an early age and are “conservatives” really nothing but whiny children looking for simple answers in a complex world? Or is it just this study looking for simple answers?
Personally I think the basic thrust of the argument is compelling but it is […]
