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In front of the wall ... In front of the one who built it ... In front of the one who made it taller ... In front of the one who guards it A poor guy stopped .. And went pee pee ... Walit Taher, A Bit of Air Translated from Egyptian Arabic by Anita Husen ... أدام السور ... وأدام اللي بانيه ... وأدام اللي بيعليه ... وأدام اللي واقف يحميه .. وقف راجل غلبان ... وعمل پيپيه
... Drowning ..?! So what if we continue to drown .. It's a chance to live among the fish ... traquil .. Without problems ... Without bickering ... Without the pettiness of humans! — Wald Taher, A Bit of Air , 2008 and 2012.  Translated from Egyptian Arabic by Anita Husen
UK: class and "social mobility" [Only] five generations 'before poor reach average pay" That is not bad! We can live with that.
Plan to publish full works of Marx A German academic is leading the project in Berlin (An FT article for subscribers)
Parasitism Housing:  "No region in England and Wales is affordable for workers on median salary." — Financial Times , 15 June 2018
Documenting crimes The First Gulf War, the chemical attack on the Iraqi village of Halabja in 1988 and the role played by foreign companies in the build-up of chemical weapons in the region were the main topics at the most recent "Visions of Iran" film festival in Cologne.  Halabja – casting a long shadow
Mazzucato draws inspiration for her activism from two sources: on the one hand the heterodox economics of Karl Polanyi and on the other hand the democratic ambition of John F Kennedy. JFK inspires Mazzucato to call for the economy to be given a “new mission”. Polanyi’s analysis of the economy as a constructed social artefact makes this seem possible. If the market was made by the state then it can presumably be remade. The question, of course, is how. Unfortunately, the boldness of Mazzucato’s vision and the brashness of her rhetoric are not matched by the depth or coherence of her answer to this basic question. "Mariana Mazzucato's bold mission to reform the global economy"
Someone has advised me not to feel guilty by living in Britain. Here is an answer: "I was in the Indian Police five years, and by the end of that time I hated the imperialism I was serving with bitterness which I probably cannot make clear. In the free air of England that kind of thing is not fully intelligible. In order to hate imperialism you have got to be part of it." — George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier Orwell had his reasons at the time. I have my different reasons today. The fundamental remains: Britain is an imperialist state and I am part of it.
Britain McGarvey is withering about “the poverty industry”, run by the middle classes, for doing things not “ with  the community but  to  it”. Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey