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Author Archives: Jerome Nikolai Warren
The Bern Manifesto: Why I am Voting for Bernie Sanders
“A spectre is haunting America – the spectre of Bernie Sanders. All the powers of the political establishment have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: David Brock and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Forbes magazine and the Wall Street Journal, … Continue reading
Posted in Geopolitics, Politics
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Commentary and Discussion to the Syriza Victory in the Greek Referendum
The imminent victory of Syriza over the concerted efforts of European politicians and Greek media moguls — the former cutting off the country’s financial sources as punishment for it voting incorrectly, in the language of Wolfgang Schäuble, the latter spreading … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Geopolitics, Politics
Tagged democracy, Eurozone, Greek debt crisis
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Some Various Tidbits on #GE2015
I was present at the Brixton Recreation Center earlier tonight, where vote counting was going — and continues to go — on. Workers there are paid a standard rate that is independent of how long they spend counting votes, and … Continue reading
Posted in Bourgeois politics, Critique of the Left, Politics
Tagged british election, Cameron, Conservative, election 2015, Labour, Miliband, Tory
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America’s Palestinians: Lessons from The American Indian Experience for Israel-Palestine
Israel is often and repeatedly compared with South Africa, and a quick search on the Internet and in newspapers of the debate on the Occupied Territories, on UN Security Council resolutions condemning and calling and end to the occupation, and … Continue reading
Posted in Geopolitics, History, Parable, Politics
Tagged American Indian, Colonialism, Israel, Middle East, Native American, Occupied Territories, Palestine, PLO
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“It’s boring but necessary”: An Interview with Jos Alembic (aka “Q”) on Changing Dutch Political Discourse
I recently had a discussion with Q, a member and founder of Marxist Center and the Communist Platform, a political lobbying organization in the Netherlands that seeks to inject a more traditional class-oriented slant into the national political discourse, with … Continue reading
Posted in Critique of the Left, Politics, Proletarian politics
Tagged Dutch polititics, Marxist Center, socialism
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The Many Prongs That Lead to Ferguson
There are a number of strands that can be picked up from the recent, much-publicized events in Ferguson, Mo. Ferguson is a suburb on the innermost ring of St. Louis’s quite extensive “fat belt”, a European term for the series … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural analysis, Culture, History, Politics
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“Tax is the Lifeblood of Democracy”: An Interview with John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network
Recently, I sat down to talk with John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network, to talk about his organisation and what it does. Topics as wide ranging as state subsidies of corporations and the role of the OECD as “a … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Politics
Tagged democracy, development, economic justice, human rights, inequality, justice, tax havens, tax justice
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An End to Musical Chairs: A Rumination on the Basic Income
Since everyone is welcome aboard the train of life, don’t we all deserve a ticket? I was walking toward the central transit hub of my town recently, when, shortly prior to passing over the railroad tracks that the train I … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural analysis, Economics, Parable, Philosophy
Tagged basic guaranteed income, basic income, basic income guarantee
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“Wer hat uns verraten?”: Speculations on the imminent German Election
“Who’s done us in?” This ambiguous, and yet telling, interrogative was said to’ve stood on Karl Liebknecht’s desk in Berlin. Marc Uwe Kling, a contemporary political singer, comments that “a poster of the slogan is also over Oskar Lafontaine’s desk”. … Continue reading
Posted in Critique of the Left, Politics
Tagged DIE LINKE, elections, German election, Germany, SPD
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On the Issue of Political Extradition & the United States: Saints & Sinners
If justice is transitive, it applies to all alike, and we should critically engage the grave double standard the United States applies to extradition requests it issues, while requests submitted to it for criminals, terrorists and stooges of corrupt regimes … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Edward Snowden, extradition, NSA whistleblower
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Interview With Rob Dietz of CASSE, co-author of “Enough is Enough”
Rob Dietz recently published the book Enough is Enough with co-author Dan O’Neill. The gist of the book is that the growth-oriented consumer culture in places like the United States and Europe, where, even in the recent crisis, people are … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Politics
Tagged Dan O'Neill, Enough is Enough, Rob Dietz, steady state economy
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“I Had Weird Educational Experiences”: Interview With Noam Chomsky
Spirit: Alot of theorists, I think of EJ Hobsbawm in particular, in the book On History, separate the concept of “biography” from that of “history”. You’ve been more concerned, it is apparent, in your career, with the latter rather than … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural analysis, Culture, Philosophy, Politics
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Breaking With the Economic Beatitude: Refutations of Some Prevailing Notions Against the Basic Income
I’ve written elsewhere on the subject of immaterial hurdles facing the argument for the basic income guarantee [µ]. I want to shortly summarize the sentiments constituting these hurdles, and outline the counter-arguments I’ve given against these views. In my prior … Continue reading
