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"the Problem for the anti-capitalist left is to build organizational forms and to unleash a co-revolutionary dynamic that can replace t...

A] Choose the mountain you want to climb B] Know how to get close to it C] Learn from someone who has already been up there D] When se...

"Two weeks before the war came, [the girls] wrote their names in the sand. Where are their names now? Written in stone on their tombs. ...

more often people should spend time in the open air, with friends, enjoying rum. it would solve the world's problems. one love.

"I'm delighted to be here, but first of all I'd like to apologize for speaking English which is the language of international i...

"This is not just about the kid, it's about our dreadful education and economic situation. That's what pushed us on to the stre...

"No doubt [Summers] is very smart, but you're not giving him the job based on his SAT scores," said economist Dean Baker, co-d...

"You wrote Imagined Communities in the 1980s. What would you have written in the preface of - let’s say a new edition in 2006?' - ...

True, some of the white settlers are escapees from hell: Jacob’s wife, Rebekka, whom he imported sight unseen from London, retains too-vivid...

As he left Parliament last night after Manning’s statements, Rowley told reporters: “The facts have come out, that he is wrong. He is too bi...

Dan Savage Break down of CNN exit poll methodology and numbers More on the stats Avoiding the issue One voice And well this is the Daily Ko...

"One of the core components is the medial prefrontal cortex (see diagram), which is known to evaluate things from a highly self-centred...

Once the polls closed on November the 4th, 2008 the night became a stage upon which many individuals came together and shared an idea. It wa...

"The chairman of the World Bank visited Haiti this past week. This man, Robert Zoellick, is an expert finance-capitalist, a former part...

"Who wants to be an academic these days, and what do they do? All the smart people go and work for McKinsey, right? They’re all bankers...

"In any case, the best of today’s anthropologists are practically paralyzed by their awareness of the way power shapes and corrupts kno...

Nikolai over at Antilles To the best of my knowledge--and I'd be thrilled to be informed otherwise--no Commonwealth Caribbean country ca...

"More than that, what we are seeing with the crash on Wall Street, I believe, should be for Friedmanism what the fall of the Berlin Wal...

It occurs to me that in the last 7 years Euro-American society has been offered the opportunity to redefine its core on two occasions. First...

1999: "the summer of 1999, against the wishes of people who paid attention during their economics classes, our ‘prudent’ Chancellor of ...

A democracy now show on the 700 billion banditry From the transcript ROBERT SCHEER: Yeah, well, the point is, when Bush and McCain and Paul...

Witty . With an interesting origin story. A few of my favs. chomsky, adj. Said of a theory that draws extravagant metaphysical implications ...

With predatory capitalism and its south sea bubbles failing i was reminded of CLR James's 1947 piece Dialectical Materialism and the Fat...

"Imagine a poem that forces history, psychoanalysis, ethnography, and revolution to coexist. The Cahier stages the uneasy alliances bet...

Some interesting debate over at Culture Matters about Steve Featherstone's piece on Human Terrain System (HTS) in the September issue ...

"But Unger doesn’t think Brazil should compete against the likes of China by giving its workers ever-lower wages. And he rejects the ne...

Mas playing priest dies By ANGELA PIDDUCK, Trinidad Newsday, Sunday, January 20 2008 (This story was published first in 'The Anglican Ou...

"Last summer in a rented garage on the outskirts of Queens, NY something incredible was happening. A group of imaginative tinkerers fro...

Radcliffe Brown quoted by Tim Ingold "‘A pig does not become a hippopotamus … On the other hand a society can and does change its struc...

Below is a comment i left on Marc Tyrell's blog re the McFate/HTS situation. Here are some other links to informative commentary on wha...

"The scientists, led by Jan Zalasiewicz at the department of geology at Leicester, say: "Sufficient evidence has emerged of strati...

"The International Olympic Committee (IOC) introduced sex testing in 1968 at the Olympic games in Mexico City, after the masculine appe...

decent comment from GU article on the "credit crunch" euphemism by edevershed "Take my housemate Leo as an example. Leo's...

"The appreciation of certain Western ideas and the fact that certain postcolonial writers are influenced by Western writers and write i...

"Unlike most humans, however, individual animals generally cannot be classified as gay or straight: an animal that engages in a same-se...

So many quotes to write, and ive made notes on so much of this paper...the gifts are so many but essentially his point is that Caribbean sch...

"You could say that we've come full circle," said Bénédicte Souffi, one of the two archaeologists in charge of the site. ...

"The corporate mega-criminals are all pleading not guilty to speculating the price of oil into the stratosphere, while their servants i...

"I've been thinking (and talking) about community a lot recently, and it was while speaking to about 50 people at a seminar held by...

“…You’d be reading a physically different book as you technically read the same one, just as the narrator reflects that, “everything we know...

"But one thing lacking from so many conversations about “Britishness” is any reference to a link between religious and ethnic identity....

"My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my “Blackness” than ever before. I have found that, no matter how liberal a...

"Football got rich on the back of the 96," he said, referring to the grants of public money paid to clubs to improve their grounds...

"Philanthrocapitalism is a transposition of the corporate model into the charitable sector. Having made their fortunes in the market, n...

"How do you make characters talk?" "You don't," Penny said. "You listen to them." John Lahr on August Wils...

"In the round of 16, against Sevilla at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán stadium, goalkeeper Volkan Demirel is preparing for the penalty shoot...

This is not an argument about one tradition as a truer producer of anthropological knowledge than another. Of ‘us’ being better than ‘them’ ...

"what is the relationship between culture, health and people’s sense of wellbeing? Why do many aspects of our lives appear to be unders...

Some of his bad points "I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas," Barack Obama declared last week in ...

"Traffic death and injury is a global pandemic in which more than 1.2 million lives are lost annually; another 50 million people suffer...

"Marriage rates in England and Wales have fallen to the lowest level on record, government figures published today have revealed. The p...

"I have been working in finance in the City and worldwide for 34 years and I have never seen anything like this," Smith told BBC R...

"We all know that Moses was high on Mount Sinai when God spoke to him, but were the Ten Commandments a result of divine inspiration alo...

How do you think colorblind people play videogames? How do they deal with the fact that they can't differentiate between red and green i...

"Although Doig was born in Edinburgh and has spent much time in England, he grew up in Canada and now lives in Trinidad. There are pict...

"The realisation that, at best, writers could only hope to dress old words new and recreate what was already there led to a spate of li...

Brilliant article: Why we banned legos "Children absorb political, social, and economic worldviews from an early age. Those worldviews ...

"Katharine Hamnett does not believe the cliché that black never goes out of fashion. In recent years, the designer has seen a resurgenc...

"What lies behind the shrill anti- Chávez hysteria (much of it financed by the US government) isn't a crumbling economy or state re...

"As the ones responsible for rule enforcement, the referees are physical manifestations of discipline and power, actors whose penalizin...

"As we peer into society's future, we must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, ...

"Two decades ago, before I became a journalist, I used to work as a social anthropologist in the Himalayas. It is undoubtedly an unusua...

"It was always tempting to dismiss the ownership society as an empty slogan - "hokum", as Robert Reich, labour secretary duri...

"Thousands of Liverpool fans have already demonstrated their dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs," said Mr Taylor....

"The UK's first playground specifically for older people has opened near Manchester. The "older people's play area" i...

"Only in their 50s do most people emerge from the low period. But encouragingly, by the time you are 70, if you are still physically fi...

"'He was your ideal son-in-law,' said 62-year-old client Martine Le Pohon, who remembers Jerome helping his mother out on Satur...

"An industry that socialises losses while privatising profit, and that has the capacity to create booms and busts alike, has to be as c...

"Take this recent Annapolis meeting about Israel-Palestine. Why did they pick Annapolis? Is that the only meeting place in the Washingt...

Its long. About 2hrs. But there's a convincing interpretation of imperialist formation from pagan religion to the federal reserve to cli...

"Addressing the real conflicts of interest will be a complex matter, but one thing is clear: the government has long taken the position...

"Yesterday evening a nautical drama was being played out between seven ships deep in the heaving, wild and normally extremely lonely So...

"On Tuesday, in Madrid, politicians, non-governmental organisations and civil society leaders from across the globe begin two days of d...

"Marco Cicala, a Leftist Italian journalist, told me about his recent weird experience: when, in an article, he once used the word ...

"What if the US just packed up and left Iraq and Afghanistan, and brought the troops all home, shut down the 750-odd overseas bases we ...

But it's SO FUN to quote movies all the time... (XKCD comic). read more | digg story

"I would compare Knol to Blogger, and eventually, I think it will have Digg-like elements. Knol is like Blogger because it's a pers...