Skip to main content

Posts

Criminal and barbaric, but we have accepted it and we keep cheering How long would it take you to earn a star player's salary?
Post a Comment
Read more
Amartya Sen "On the issue of liberalisation and the opening up of economies, Amartya has been rather mainstream. He hasn't raised very deep questions about the whole process and of globalisation in general. He's more of a mainstream economist than many people realise." More substantial criticisms revolve round his role in the current globalisation debate. Richard Jolly, while being an enormous admirer, says: "On the issue of liberalisation and the opening up of economies, Amartya has been rather mainstream. He hasn't raised very deep questions about the whole process and of globalisation in general. He's more of a mainstream economist than many people realise." Food for thought
Post a Comment
Read more
أسعد الوراق
Post a Comment
Read more

Balfour Declaration

Another crime of the British ruling class, whose legacy continues to this day. "It's been nearly 100 years since the document changed the course of history, yet Britain still fails to acknowledge Israel's denial of the Palestinian right to national self-determination - and its own complicity." Balfour Declaration: a study in British duplicity
Read more
There are some similarities here with those Western leftists and liberals defending or appeasing Al-assad regime in Syria. Western leftists and China
Post a Comment
Read more
On hypocrisy and complicity The US is cutting some of the aids that gives to Egypt? Your tax dollars allow police brutality abroad
Post a Comment
Read more
" Zambia’s tourism minister Jean Kapata had a point when she suggested the reaction to Cecil’s slaying showed westerners care more about African animals than African humans." Since "Westerners" have the means (technology, economy, power, etc) to selectively save themselves, some people other and some animals why should they care about Africans? But that's not Morton's central theme in Humankind
Post a Comment
Read more
The tone of the article, almost explicitly, makes it sound that the Qatari regime is a force of progress. In fact, both the Saudis and the Qatari are theocracies and part of the rentier economies of the Gulf Council and part of the international financial system of oppression and inequality and at the service of the big powers. The level of Qatari investment in London alone is staggering, including 95% of Shard the new skycraper and Canary Warf, not to speak of investment and donations to universities, etc Saudi Arabia's attempt at a Qatari coup backfired
Post a Comment
Read more