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Lausti: Victor Serge's libertarian message
Blog Post, February, 20 2013
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First unabridged English edition of Serge's memoirs
Lausti: Media and the protection of elite power
Blog Post, January, 14 2013
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Media Lens's editors David Cromwell and David Edwards have over the years become important analysts of the corporate media's failure to meaningfully engage with the real world of greed, mendacity, destructive economic and financial practices, rele...
Lausti: Pro-NATO Finns' delusions of "Western values"
Blog Post, December, 23 2012
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Finland's recent failure to be accorded a temporary seat at the UN Security Council triggered an angry reaction among the most pro-West Finnish commentariat.
Lausti: Richard Wolff: Occupy the Economy
Blog Post, October, 25 2012
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Richard Wolff deals mainly with the United States but also analyses some aspects of the crisis in Europe.
Lausti: Dan Hancox on Marinaleda utopia
Blog Post, September, 04 2012
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The mayor of the Andalusian town of Marinaleda is leading a rebellion.
Lausti: Chomsky's solid center of values
Blog Post, July, 17 2012
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Robert F. Barsky on Chomsky's role in political debates
Lausti: The fearless journalism of I.F. Stone
Blog Post, June, 27 2012
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Myra MacPherson's biography of I.F. Stone
Lausti: Review of Dan Hind's new book
Blog Post, April, 25 2012
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In the foreword to this thought-provoking book by Dan Hind the editors quote the Italian Marxist intellectual Antonio Gramsci: "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying, and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a grea...
Lausti: Summerhill: Growing up free and fearless
Blog Post, March, 14 2012
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Hussein Lucas's useful book consists of interviews with old Summerhillians, who then wrote their own updates. Practically everyone emphasizes the importance of the thrice-weekly General Meeting. Indeed, the “horizontalism” of current Occupy moveme...
Lausti: Zellig Harris: An appreciation
Blog Post, February, 07 2012
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“To look back to Harris's (…) work today, in the light of the current crises, worldwide, could provide the means to reimagine our relationship to production and a template to creating cooperation rather than competition among people now living in ...
Lausti: Insurrections past and present
Blog Post, November, 01 2011
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A book about anarchists and secret agents at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.
Lausti: Feral Capitalism in Crisis
Blog Post, August, 30 2011
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A review of two interesting and topical books about the crisis of capitalism.
Lausti: Britain's Dangerous Double Games
Znet Article, January, 25 2011
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A review of Mark Curtis's, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam
Lausti: The Unquenchable Spirit Of Resistance In Gaza
Znet Article, October, 10 2010
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It is hard to finish reading this book without tears in one's eyes. Mohammed Baroud's life story, as told by his son Ramzy, encapsulates the tragedy of the Palestinians in general and the Gazans in particular. It is a story of the amazing resilien...
Lausti: Spanish Anarchism — With A Scottish Accent
Znet Article, September, 10 2010
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Every now and then in the course of history ordinary people have emerged from under various forms of oppression to break their chains and seek a dignified life, free of illegitimate power structures.
Lausti: Capital loses control of society
Znet Article, August, 10 2010
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A review of István Mészáros book, The Structural Crisis of Capital.
Lausti: The Coming Demise Of Car Culture
Znet Article, June, 03 2010
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People addicted to driving cannot imagine life without their car. It gives them a sense of freedom. In their interesting and useful book British researchers Kingsley Dennis and John Urry write that "the car system is a way of life, an entire cultu...
Lausti: Journalism's Servility to Power
Znet Article, March, 31 2010
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Review of David Edwards and David Cromwell, Newspeak in the 21st Century.
Lausti: Dreams of Freedom in Russia
Znet Article, January, 13 2010
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Russia's problems run deep. When the new president Dmitri Medvedev declared a campaign against corruption, its efficiency was questioned.
