Below is an excerpt of a post at Mute. It’s by the Committee for Radical Diplomacy:
I wake up at ten to a call from the bank, concerned that while in Berlin I withdrew cash without letting them know I would be out of the country. A text message follows stating: ‘Next time, let us know [...]
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Slavok Zizek states, at Lacan.com:
When, in 1953, Chou En Lai, the Chinese Prime Minister, was in Geneva for the peace negotiations to end the Korean war, a French journalist asked him what does he think about the French Revolution; Chou replied: “It is still too early to tell.” In a way, he was right: with [...]
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Below is an excerpt from “Quiet Mind, Meditative Mind and Emerging Wisdom: A Transtheoretical Model of the Wisdom Process,” written by Jean Kristeller:
Although the term ‘wisdom’ is most often associated with more profound choices or intellectual discourse, a broader model of wise choice or action posits that wisdom may appear within any realm of functioning, [...]
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Below is an excerpt from Steve Fainaru’s article, “Iraq Contractors Face Growing Parallel War.” The article is published in the Washington Post:
The security industry’s enormous growth has been facilitated by the U.S. military, which uses the 20,000 to 30,000 contractors to offset chronic troop shortages. Armed contractors protect all convoys transporting reconstruction materiel, including vehicles, [...]
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Below is an excerpt from Business Week, written by Pallavi Gogoi:
An employee who scrupulously followed the company’s own ethics guidelines may find herself out of a job.
The very first day that Chalace Epley Lowry started working at Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) as an administrative assistant in the communications department, on Jan. 2 of this year, she [...]
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Below is an excerpt from Seymour Hersh’s article in the New Yorker, “The General’s Report“:
On the afternoon of May 6, 2004, Army Major General Antonio M. Taguba was summoned to meet, for the first time, with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in his Pentagon conference room. Rumsfeld and his senior staff were to testify the [...]
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Naomi Klein writes in the Guardian:
Political chaos means Israel is booming like it’s 1999 – and the boom is in defence exports field-tested on Palestinians.
Gaza in the hands of Hamas, with masked militants sitting in the president’s chair; the West Bank on the edge; Israeli army camps hastily assembled in the Golan Heights; a spy [...]
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Below is an excerpt of an article published in the Monthly Review, and written by Martin Hart-Landsberg & Paul Burkett:
Most economists continue to celebrate China as one of the most successful developing countries in modern times. We, however, are highly critical of the Chinese growth experience. China’s growth has been driven by the intensified exploitation [...]
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A brief list of news for the day:
Hamas says it will oppose emergency government. >> News at: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2669885.ece
EU restores funding to Fatah. “The EU said today it would resume financial aid to the new Fatah-led Palestinian government, as part of international efforts to isolate Hamas in its Gaza stronghold.” >> News at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2105683,00.html
“Rampaging Fatah gunmen [...]
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