The system works by enforcing a very strict and irrational economic model on people and telling them that it’s for their own benefit. It’s hard to fight because the ideology is so strong, and backed by so many intelligent people,
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“We’re seeing an elite degenerate so quickly. Now that there’s a little bit of evidence from soccer, we can see the way they all operate, the cash in the suitcases and all the rest of it. It’s delightful, actually.”
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At least 33 human rights defenders, youth movement activists, bloggers, journalists and others have been jailed in the last year in Azerbaijan, where the UK-based oil group BP is the largest foreign investor.
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The real threat is a totalitarian society that seduces you, that blinds you, that subtly frightens you with external enemies, and tells you that giving up freedom is necessary to preserve your freedom.
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AntiNote: This article first appeared in December 2014 on the Böll Foundation website, with link citations that we have not reproduced. It is reprinted here with the permission of the author. Social Catastrophe In the Making by Bálint Misetics It is not only constitutional democracy that Viktor Orbán’s regime treats as its enemy; the Hungarian
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Unless somebody says “No” to this Ponzi austerity where we keep borrowing while cutting, we are going to end up in a postmodern 1930s. And we know very well who benefits from that kind of depression.
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Unless people have a sense of what these contradictions mean, there’s just as much of a chance they’ll move into embracing fascism as there is that they’ll move into a more radical conception of democracy.
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The mining companies involved in murdering people in the forest can also be running law schools, and in the law schools they have courses on the poetry of resistance.
“We Have to Understand the Game. We Are All Playing it.” Read More »
AntiNote: Freelance photographer Alexander Belenkiy posted these photographs* on his livejournal this month, after a trip to Sochi. This is the ghost town he encountered there, only six months after the 2014 Winter Olympics. Alexander points out in his own commentary that the Olympic Village is not completely abandoned; indeed he took care to include
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Neoliberals don’t feel threatened by the fact that stuff just keeps getting worse, as long as they can convince people to keep doing the same things—more markets to fix markets.
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