My Bookmarx 01/31/2012

LENIN’S TOMB: Salaried bourgeois on “revolt of the salaried bourgeoisie” Zizek has expended a lot of polemical energy attacking a certain kind of poststructuralist and post-marxist politics for its abandonment of class.  But this critique was bound up with a simultaneous attack on ‘political correctness’, ‘multiculturalism’, and so forth, in the name of a ‘leftist [...]

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My Bookmarx 01/30/2012

Five myths about China’s power – The Washington Post As China gains on the world’s most advanced economies, the country excites fascination as well as fear — particularly in the United States, where many worry that China will supplant America as the 21st century’s superpower. tags: china economy politics Asia usa power ‫وثائقي صباح الخير [...]

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My Bookmarx 01/29/2012

Twitter’s new censorship plan rouses global furor – International – World – Ahram Online Twitter’s credibility seems to be jeopardized after proclaiming its plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that breaks local laws, as the youthful company had long prided itself in promoting unfettered expression tags: censorship internet internet_freedom Twitter Egypt’s Revolutionary Narrative Breaks [...]

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My Bookmarx 01/27/2012

The visible hand | The Economist The crisis of Western liberal capitalism has coincided with the rise of a powerful new form of state capitalism in emerging markets, says Adrian Wooldridge tags: world economy capitalism state_capitalism china The Oakland Commune: A Short Documentary – Infoshop News We’ve just completed a documentary film about Occupy Oakland [...]

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My Bookmarx 01/25/2012

Egyptian Army Makes Most of U.S. Aid – NYTimes.com In the late 1990s, the Pentagon announced that it would contribute tens of millions of dollars to a 650-bed International Medical Center that the Egyptian military was building in the desert outside Cairo. The money, for medical equipment, training and logistical support, would help improve health [...]

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My Bookmarx 01/24/2012

Zapotec protesters shot on behalf of Canadian mining company One Zapotec has died and another is in recovery after a group of municipal police officers and other armed men opened fire on a crowd of protesters in the municipality of San José del Progreso, Ocotlán, Oaxaca, Mexico. tags: Mexico canada mining corporates indigenous_people murder protests [...]

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My Bookmarx 01/23/2012

الطريق إلى 25 يناير .. ضابطان من قيادات أمن الدولة «المنحل» يرويان تفاصيل «18 يوماً» | المصري اليوم، أخبار اليوم من مصر كشف ضابطان سابقان بجهاز مباحث أمن الدولة «المنحل» أن حبيب العادلى، وزير الداخلية الأسبق، طلب من «مبارك» إقصاء المشير طنطاوى عن منصبه بسبب الخلافات بينهما، حيث وعده الرئيس السابق بدراسة الأمر، ثم طلب [...]

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My Bookmarx 01/22/2012

مطالبنا ومصالحهم: قراءة سريعة في الأزمة الاقتصادية | مركز الدراسات الاشتراكية – مصر مع بداية 2012، تجتاز الأزمة الاقتصادية العالمية عامها الخامس في ظل إصرار حكومات دول العالم على إلقاء الأعباء الاقتصادية الناتجة عنها على عاتق أغلبية السكان من العمال والفقراء الذين يُجبرون على تحمل تجميد الأجور والمعاشات وتقليص فرص العمل والخفض الرهيب في الإنفاق [...]

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My Bookmarx 01/21/2012

Egyptian anarchists seek self-governed society The word ‘anarchy’ in Greek means “no authority.” Anarchists’ central belief is that “no man is good enough to be another man’s master,” and that “good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” tags: egypt anarchism [...]

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My Bookmarx 01/20/2012

The Egyptian military’s economic empire – Blog – The Arabist Any discussion of the relationship between the army and economy cannot ignore the military establishment’s near-absolute dominance of the local economy in various Egyptian governorates. It is well known to many that Egyptians outside of Cairo live under virtual military rule, wherein twenty-one of the twenty-nine [...]

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