Corporate Bullshit
- Thomas Klikauer
Business bullshit is about the meaningless language conjured up in schools, in banks, in consultancy firms, in politics, and in the media. This language drives thousands of business schools. It is this language that is handed down to MBAs. It releases ...
A plant closing war, viewed from inside
French film At War comes to U.S. theaters
- Steve Early
Last winter, protestors wearing yellow vests commanded center stage in France. Their grassroots challenge to the neoliberal regime of President Emmanuel Macron drew on a long tradition of labor militancy, including factory closing fights. When these ...
Pain and Glory, the latest showpiece of Almodóvar’s cinema
- Ricard González Samaranch
At 69 years old, it has been a while since Pedro Almodóvar has entered his maturity both as a person and as a director. And this is clearly reflected in the evolution of his work. Gone are the days of his more funny and flamboyant films, like ...
Don’t say Epstein
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
In Britain we are advised not to utter the phonetic sound constructed by the following letters: R.O.T.H.S.C.H.I.L.D. as this word and the world power associated with it could reflect badly and wrongly on the Jews and might also hurt their feelings. I ...
Penguin, Rothschild and Zionist pressure
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
Penguin announced this week that in response to claims of ‘antisemitism’ it has stopped printing Col. Pedro Baños’ best selling book, “How They Rule the World.”
The scandal erupted when ...
On Chosen-mess
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
A few days ago the BBC reported on an extraordinary French identity theft scam. For two years starting in late 2015, an individual or individuals impersonating France's defence minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, scammed an estimated € ...
Philosophy in the contemporary world: The McDonaldization of philosophy
- Edward DeLia
As societies have evolved beyond the preindustrial era, they have become more and more dominated by bureaucracies. However, the ultimate form of bureaucracy is McDonaldization (Ritzer, 1996). This constitutes a broad range of bureaucracies dominated ...
Sorry We Missed You review – Ken Loach's superb swipe at zero-hours Britain
- Peter Bradshaw
The I, Daniel Blake director raises his game yet further with this gut-wrenching tale of a delivery worker driven to the brink
Dignity amid tragedy … Sorry We Missed You.
Director Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty have come storming ...
‘Marx’s writing more relevant today than ever’
Interview with Wolfgang Streeck, German political economist
- Jipson John - Jitheesh P.M.
The German political economist Wolfgang Streeck is one of the world’s leading critics of neoliberal capitalism. He received international attention for his essay “How will capitalism end?” written in 2014 for the New Left Review. ...
LGBT performers to boycott Eurovision in Israel with online broadcast
- Patrick Kelleher
A number of artists—including LGBT+ and drag performers—will be boycotting this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with an alternative online broadcast.
The broadcast, which is called Globalvision, will air online at the same time as ...
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