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I agree with this, with maybe a “smidgen” more confidence than Fitch has with Obama (but not by much)
there are people who argue intelligently that the recent "Government bailout of Wall Street" was a capitulation to socialism. And the real...
As is so often the case, Dan has written a post , that as a Christmas reflection, fits my own longings this year: We are reminded of how incapable we are of giving good gifts to others, and so we drive ourselves deeper and deeper into...
In a TIME interview, Naomi Klein explains the connection between Chicago-School style economics and the rise of “Disaster Capitalism” in the Southern Cone countries.
Milton Friedman is held up as really the guru of the modern global market...
This is what mass demonstrations in Iraq had people shouting. We NEVER heard this in the US Media. But there were massive mobilizations against what proved to be , for Iraqis, the REAL face of the occupation; that of selling...
from a new study by LifeWay Christian Resources:
On abortion: “Based on our conviction that all human life is sacred from conception until natural death, Christians must oppose abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide, human cloning, and any technology...
One of the best descriptions I’ve heard for the functioning of governments such as this Bush-and-Co. version (which I often refer to as "money launderers"), is given here by Naomi Klein in a conversation with John Cusack:
So the scandal...
A particularly disturbing chapter in Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine is the one on South Africa. In the election of the ANC and Nelson Mandela to power, the rule was in title only. The REAL title was held by the powers that be...
About half way through Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine, and I see this book as a furtherance of Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. Even though these stories take place outside the United States, there...
Here’s the start of an article Naomi Klein (author of Shock Doctrine) wrote for Harper’s in September 2004: It was only after I had been in Baghdad for a month that I found what I was looking for. I had traveled to Iraq a year after the war...
I read this today , and part of me (a large part) laments the absence of such views amongst God’s people. Not even the absence of "views" as such, but of any kind of serious confrontation of the forces of this neoclassicism...
Dan has been sharing with us a paper he is doing. He is contrasting Christianity with neoclassicism, our present day leading form of capitalism.
Capitalism, however, is based upon the assumption of scarcity. It assumes a world where there...
A commenter on the article from the previous post about NetNeutrailty squads gives me another example of the rush to "Trust the market" kind of thinking. When we fail to recognize what this commenter refers to as the "occasional"...