Hedges interview with David Harvey on "The Future of Global Capitalism"
Submitted by Citizen Of Earth on Thu, 06/14/2018 - 8:56amThis is well worth the time if the subject interests you -- And It Should!! I found it interesting it anyway.
Diaries
Thursday Open Thread 6-14-2018
Submitted by studentofearth on Thu, 06/14/2018 - 4:43am
Morning - I will not be checking in until late evening. Aspects of modern China will be today's subject.
Pepe Esobar article from last November Xi’s road map to the Chinese Dream lays out the near future.
Rojava, an unlikely place for a democratic revolution.
Submitted by GreyWolf on Wed, 06/13/2018 - 8:28pmI have been following the developments in Rojava, an area of Northern Syria that adheres to the thoughts of Murray Bookchin. (ghohnsit's recent article reminded me I wanted to write about Rojava, a spunky little area in a war-torn region that is promoting a new form of decentralized democracy, and this started as a comment on gjonsit's recent article on Iran but it was growing long so I made it a separate diary.)
From: Females on the Frontline
Iran had a good week
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 06/13/2018 - 3:17pmThe United States has been rapidly losing influence in Asia these past few months, but this past week really solidified that loss.
Booby has decided that the 13 dastardly RUSSIAN! telemarketers charged with ‘upsetting’ the 2016 presidential election cannot see the ‘evidence’ being used against them.
Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Wed, 06/13/2018 - 3:07pmFirst I would like to point out that Bob in Portland has an essay up that is the definitive OP on Booby’s history of manipulating the legal system in order to ensure that no matter who got caught with their fingers in the cookie jar, he made damn sure that the ‘right’ suspects always ended up being prosecuted. (Or not prosecuted, depending upon where the best interests of our PTB lie.) He’s always been our PTB’s go-to guy whenever they needed evidence buried or the facts fudged around.
The Evening Blues - 6-13-18
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 06/13/2018 - 2:40pm
The New Face of the Putin Plot To Destroy America
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 06/13/2018 - 11:39am
Pictured above is Selina Vickers. She's an agent of chaos. Or at least the DNC believes she is.
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Wed, 06/13/2018 - 5:13am
Something/Someone Old
In defense of socialism, again
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 06/12/2018 - 8:54pmIn my experience, the most confident and strident defenders of capitalism are the ones who know the least about socialism. I can't fully blame them for this because there is so much intentional misinformation, as well as suppressed information, that it takes a herculean effort to get a more accurate viewpoint.
This essay is a follow-up to this previous one.
The Eerie Silence Surrounding the Assange Case has been broken…in Australia
Submitted by wendy davis on Tue, 06/12/2018 - 7:42pm
First, from Mike Head at wsws.org June 12, 2018: ‘Demands grow that Australian government act to free Julian Assange’
Head writes that last Sunday one of Assange’s attorneys, Australian Jennifer Robinson, was on channel 7’s ‘Sunrise Weekend’ giving a 10-minute interview. He called it a significant break from the long media silence in Australian media on Assange’s seven year detention in the Ecuadorian Embassy. Robbins had apparently issued a clear message to the Aussie government to carry out its responsibility to an Aussie citizen and give him his freedom.
