Islamist militants – with Turkish army support – are wreaking havoc with a pocket of peace and sanity in the Syrian war by David Graeber / Analysis and Opinion Three years ago the world watched a ragtag band of men and women fighters in the Syrian town of Kobane, […]
by David Graeber/Strike! In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that technology would have advanced sufficiently by century’s end that countries like Great Britain or the United States would achieve a 15-hour work week. There’s every reason to believe he was right. In technological terms, we are […]
by David Graeber/The Guardian In the wake of the murderous attacks in Paris, we can expect western heads of state to do what they always do in such circumstances: declare total and unremitting war on those who brought it about. They don’t actually mean it. They’ve had the […]
by David Graeber/Gawker The Department of Justice’s investigation of the Ferguson Police Department has scandalized the nation, and justly so. But the department’s institutional racism, while shocking, isn’t the report’s most striking revelation. More damning is this: in a major American city, the criminal justice system perceives a […]
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