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activism – attac :: site france
{ founded in 1998, Attac goal is that citizens reclaim the agenda confiscated by the financial spheres }
activism – The Australia Institute
Private markets, while effective at encouraging efficiency in many circumstances, frequently fail to reflect adequately ethical, social & environmental priorities. The Institute reasserts the place of ethics in making public & private decisions.
culture – Arrêt sur images – La ligne Jaune
Explore la ligne jaune (mince) entre le dicible et l’indicible, entre le solide et l’invérifié, entre le lieu commun et le tabou. L’émission qui fait peur à Finkielkraut.
culture – tpm : the philosophers' magazine
TPM: The Philosophers’ Magazine is an independent quarterly. The website is updated every weekday with selected articles from the magazine.
economics – the Bichler & Nitzan archives
Shimshon Bichler teaches political economy at colleges and universities in Israel (tookie@barak.net.il) Jonathan Nitzan teaches political economy at York University in Canada (nitzan@yorku.ca)
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Former Greens leader Bob Brown has joined activists in Sarawak to protest the development of hydroelectric dams which will displace thousands of indigenous people, reports Jenny Denton […]
Access to justice is the bedrock of our legal system. So why were Legal Aid, community legal centres and human rights education shortchanged in the budget yet again, asks Adam McBeth […]
Joe Hockey thinks Treasury's budget figures are 'Wayne Swan’s numbers'. Attacks on public servants are not new but this recent talk about a politicised Treasury is nonsense, writes Ben Eltham […]
In Asia, high-speed fibre broadband is seen as an enabler, not an expensive drain on the public purse. Gabrielle Jackson compares the top networks in the region […]
When it comes to resources policy, critics love to liken Gillard's approach to Whitlam's. It's politically effective – but it's wrong, writes Sarah Burnside […]
When did the pre-occupation with fact checking arise? When audiences stopped trusting mainstream media. Even expert-sanctioned truths need some scrutiny, writes Jeff Sparrow […]
Almost twenty years ago, Christian de Portzamparc was the first French architect to receive the Pritzker Prize. Today his Atelier, located in Paris, is more dynamic than ever, with ambitious projects like the Cidade das Artes in Rio, or the participation in the Grand Paris project. The following interview shows an architect urbanist whose work is geared towa […]
For two thousand years, according to James Scott, the mountains of Zomia were a place of refuge for the people of Southeast Asia. For the author, this region, as a centre of resistance to the state, holds up a mirror to our destructive and self-confident civilisation. A fascinating and intriguing anarchist history. - Reviews / anarchisme, résistance, democra […]
Although today's world is more interdependent than ever, it is still a jigsaw puzzle of sovereign states. One consequence of globalization is that we have to update our own mental maps, and to understand other people's. In this interview, the diplomat and geographer Michel Foucher explains the world's new geography. - Reviews / géographie, int […]
Though the age of historic upheavals and major political crises seemed to be over, the word “revolution” has made a recent comeback in Georgia, in the Ukraine and in the “Arab Springs” of 2011. Should we revise the concept of revolution? What, if anything, do these contemporary revolutions have in common? Can they be compared to the great revolutions of the […]
Gyan Prakash's most recent book takes us on a journey through Bombay's history, focusing on the myths and fables that have shaped how the city is represented. His ambitious project fails, however, to explain Bombay's transition from a cosmopolitan city to one torn apart by ethnic conflict. - Reviews / city, urbanisme […]