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By Jinjirrie, on May 30th, 2011% Professor Richard D. Wolff: This four part course provides a working foundation in the core concepts of Marxian economic theory – necessary and surplus labor, labor power, surplus value, exploitation, capital accumulation, distributions of the surplus, capitalist crises, and the differences between capitalist and other class structures. In addition, these core concepts will be . . . → Read More if you dare: For a Global Parachute : Revising Marxian Economics
By Jinjirrie, on January 4th, 2011% One of my favourite contemporary thinkers, Slavoj Zizek, expounds on apocalypse via capitalist degeneracy. The downside about being declared the messiah is that they generally come to a sticky end ‘CIA response to Assange assassination FOI on Scribd.com: This is a final response to your 11 October FOI Act request for all copies of . . . → Read More if you dare: Slavoj Zizek : Are We Living in the End Times?
By Jinjirrie, on January 15th, 2010% This film is a powerful exposes of the way vulnerable countries are ruthlessly farmed by empire and its mercantilist consorts, assisted by the World Bank and IMF, to the detriment of local people and environment. Don’t just sit stunned after watching, get out there and challenge the corporations and countries who enslave people for . . . → Read More if you dare: Life and Debt – the chains of globalisation and neoliberal imperialism
By Jinjirrie, on October 8th, 2009% Kevin Rudd is optimistic of the survival of western hegemony for at least another 15 years, as it shifts to a balance of powers rather than US unilateralism. This is reflected already in the expansion of the G7 to the G20, to include representation from most blocs, with under-representation from Africa and South East Asian . . . → Read More if you dare: An extraordinary complex peace
By Jinjirrie, on December 11th, 2008%
By Jinjirrie, on December 9th, 2008% Lindsay Tanner gives a well-crafted introduction to the new Government Digital Economy blog, which is to be open for a whole 18 days. The Oz government is offering to receive online policy suggestions which contribute to their Future Directions paper to be released early next year. Some of the themes to be explored include: What . . . → Read More if you dare: Government Digital Economy Blog Launch
By Jinjirrie, on March 12th, 2008% Andrew McNamara, Minister for Sustainability, Climate Change and Innovation, gave an impressive, lucid speech to the Brisbane Institute on the need for sustainable planning within Australia. McNamara quoted the wise words of Bob Carr in 1997: “I think people are ready to grasp the argument that the unsustainable growth in population numbers is degrading our . . . → Read More if you dare: A Sustainable Australia
By Jinjirrie, on April 1st, 2007% Latest figures on foreign investment in Whorestralia are worrisome. In 2003/04, foreign investment totalled $1,059,345m – and 30.8% of Whorestralia’s total enterprise equity was owned by foreigners, with the United Stupids heading the list at 32% of total foreign ownership, followed closely by the United Kooks at 30%. By the end of the December 2006 . . . → Read More if you dare: Going, going …. sold!
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