- New Immigration Measure Means Expanded Government Reach
A bill to make the electronic employment verification system E-Verify mandatory for all employers is poised to be used for purposes well beyond immigration, warn experts, conservative, liberal and libertarian alike. The concern is based on not just what is in the bill but what is left out. 電子雇用の検証システムのすべての雇用者のための必須のイーベリファイがよく移民目的以外に使用する態勢を整えているようにする法案が、同様に保守的、自由主義と自由主義者の専門家を、警告する
- Andrew Cuomo: Medicaid-Reforming Hero of the Right?
A generation ago, New York governor Mario Cuomo was an Italian-American facsimile of Barack Obama: an unapologetic, eloquent spokesman for modern liberalism. Many on the Left regret to this day that he didn?t run for President in 1992, leaving the field instead to a centrist named Bill Clinton. 近代的な自由主義の悪びれない、説得力のある広報担当者：一世代前、ニューヨーク知事マリオCuomoはバラクオバマ氏のイタリア系アメリカ人のファクシミリした
- Tapu Misa: Banning the burqa would not help women
A liberal society should let people make choices that may not be in their interests, writes Tapu Misa. What a lot of trouble Muhammad's wives seem to have caused. Though not Khadija, of course, the prophet's first wife and Islam's... 自由主義社会は人々が彼らの利益に反する選択をするせるべき、タプ美沙は書いている
- Canada's election today
Canadians head to the polls today after a five-week campaign that saw the surprising rise of the New Democratic Party, the decline of the venerable Liberals, and the stagnation of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives.Support... カナダは、新民主党は、由緒ある自由主義者の低下の意外な上昇、スティーブンハーパー首相のConservatives.Supportの停滞を見て5週間のキャンペーンの後、今日世論調査に向かう...
- Blogging 'The Conscience of an Anarchist' by Gary Chartier
I've just started anarchist-writer Gary Chartier's anarchist manifesto The Conscience of an Anarchist. I intend to blog about it as I progress through the book, so if you'd like to read along with me click on that link. First a few scattered thoughts on anarchism, liberalism, and my own pragmatist's conundrum. 私は無政府主義者、作家ゲイリーシャルティエのアナーキストのマニフェストのアナーキストの良心を開始しました
- Peter Huck: Tea Party tactics set agenda for election
They have been called the American Taleban, Jacobins, terrorists, nativists, even - by one of their own, Rand Paul - hobbits, engaged in a Manichaean struggle between good and evil.But despite the bile heaped upon them by liberals,... 彼らはアメリカのタリバン、ジャコバン、さらにテロリスト、国学、呼ばれている - 自分自身の一人、ランドポール - ホビット、胆汁にもかかわらず良いとevil.But間にマニ教の闘争に従事しては、自由主義者が彼らの上に山盛り...
- Famine is the result of a failing food system | Felicity Lawrence
The root cause of hunger and famine is rarely crop failure. It is about who controls and benefits from land and its resourcesGrowing population, dependence on monoculture, a food economy geared to exports and concentrated in the hands of a few players, neoliberal economics meeting climate shock ending in catastrophic failure of food supply – we could be talking about common concerns over food security in the coming decades. But now tweak the language: big families, single staple potato crop, land controlled by absentee landlords and their agents producing meat and butter not for the locals but to ship to England, laissez-faire economics, then blight, leading to mass starvation. The conditions that create hunger and famine around the world have followed a pattern for centuries – and still do today.Last weekend, I joined several hundred people gathered under a blazing sky in Ireland's County Mayo for the annual Famine Walk from Doolough Lake to the tiny town of Louisburgh organised by the Irish campaign group Afri. The breathtaking beauty of the mountain scenery belies the tragedy that it had witnessed back in 1849. The walk retraces the path taken by hundreds of starving Irish tenant farmers who had struggled into Louisburgh to be inspected by the English commissioners in the hope of being granted emergency rations, only to be told to walk 10 miles up to the grand house by Doolough lake instead.Already enfeebled by hunger, many died en route and in the months immediately after. During the great hunger around 1 million Irish people died and a further 1 million were forced into emigration for want of food. Yet, throughout the period, 1845-52, Ireland exported large amounts of food to England. Even had it not, the almost destitute peasantry created by large English landhold 飢餓の根本的な原因と飢饉はほとんど穀物の不作です
- What Can Darwin teach us about morality? | The question
Is it merely a trick played on us by our genes, a meaningless by-product of evolution?One of the most tragic and interesting scientific stories of the late 20th century was that of George Price, a fiercely atheist and idealistic socialist who discovered the early work of WD Hamilton, showing how altruism might evolve if it was advantageous to the relatives of altruists. Price went more or less mad under the burden of the discovery, for it suggests that we have moral sentiments only because they were advantageous to our ancestors. According to Hamilton and his fellow sociobiologists, altruism is real, but only to the extent that it is not in fact disinterested. What's left of morality in such a world?Is it merely a trick played on us by our genes? Or is that in turn an incoherent idea? Can science naturalise morality, and show that there are certain good ends which come naturally to the sort of animals we are? Where, in that case, is the belief that we are free too choose our own ends? Does an evolutionary account of human nature challenge liberalism as much as it challenges conservatism?ReligionEthicsPhilosophyCharles Darwinguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
されただけでトリックを我々に我々の遺伝子によって無意味な進化の産物で演奏ですか？1つは、20世紀後半の最も悲劇的な、興味深い科学的な物語のジョージの価格は、熾烈な無神論者の人を発見した社会主義の理想の早期WDのハミルトンの仕事、それがaltruistsの親族に有利にされたか利他主義の進化可能性を示す
- IMF chief on rape charges: From vroom to bust | Editorial
Within hours of the news breaking that Dominique Strauss-Kahn had been charged, France began to talk about the him in the past tenseThe presumption of innocence is a legal principle, but not, alas, a political reality. Within hours of the news breaking that Dominique Strauss-Kahn had been charged with sexually assaulting and attempting to rape a room maid in a New York hotel, France began to talk about the IMF chief and possible presidential candidate in the past tense. There was at least one immutable political reality guiding this. Presidential candidates for the Socialist party have two weeks from the end of June to the middle of July, to put their name down. Mr Strauss-Kahn's lawyer said yesterday his client denied all the facts on the charge sheet. But he would have to do much more than this in a very short space of time to declare his candidacy and salvage his political career, and the wheels of criminal justice do not turn that fast. The assumption is that both his candidacy and his political career are over.In the maelstrom of comment that his arrest generated, the plight of the alleged victim was soon forgotten. It should never be. This is about justice not the careers of high fliers in politics and finance. The scandal deals a grievous blow both to the IMF and to French politics. Mr Strauss-Kahn, the fourth Frenchmen to run the IMF, is regarded both as a competent and progressive head of an organisation at a crucial time in attempts to stabilise the world economy. He struck out against the high priests of neoliberalism by focusing on employment and recognising that countries facing speculative pressure could use capital controls as a defence. But this was work in progress and the tough conditions imposed on Greece and Ireland have caused many to question how m ドミニクストロスカーンが起訴されていたことが、ニュース速報の時間の中では、フランスが無実の過去tenseThe推定で彼の話を始めたの法的原則ですが、ではなく、悲しいかな、政治現実を
- Michael Tomasky: Israel and America
I'm going to refrain by and large from just writing posts denouncing Israel. You can read plenty such essays on this web site and others, and anyway I was hired to write about America, so that's what I'm going to do.And in America, this event really could be a tipping point. The Beinart essay from the New York Review that we discussed previously has kicked up a broader, introspective conversation among American Jews about why younger Americans don't feel connected to Israel in the way older Jews did in earlier generations, and what that lack of empathy portends for Israel's future. Not being part of the circle, maybe it's not for me to say quite so much, except that from what I can observe, this tragedy having happened at the precise moment that such a thoroughgoing evaluation was taking place, it can't but have the effect of creating more anger and disillusion among many American Jews under 40, for whom the occupation looms far larger than the founding Zionist-humanist impulse.There is of course another current here, and the Israel-right-or-wrong contingent is breathing fire today: the flotilla was put together by a Turkish nonprofit with ties to a Saudi umbrella group that has financed terrorism, according to the Weekly Standard. Read the Standard online and the blog at Commentary magazine, called Contentions, if you want to keep up with how this faction is trying to spin the flotilla event. One post actually argued that the main problem here was that the IDF went in with too little force.Arguments like these will continue, but I believe the constituency for them in the US is growing smaller and smaller. Remember, Jews are liberals, by and large. There is a chasm between their liberalism and their support for Israel, a chasm that was widened (perhaps considerably) yes 私はで大規模なだけの記事を、イスラエルを非難する書き込みを控えるつもりです
- A few questions for the Muslim brothers who demonstrated in Tahrir Square after Friday prayers on 29 july | Tariq Ali
I wrote this poem in response to the events in Egypt's capital last FridayI address this poem to the Muslim brothers who demonstrated in Cairo's Tahrir Square after Friday prayers on 29 JulyPatience exhaustedYou emerged from the shadowsTo tell us what was forbidden and why.You spoke loudly and clearly,Each chant a whiplash:God is Great!The laws of God transcend democracy!Liberals and secularists are the scum of the earth!Copts too!And uncovered women!And leftists, trapped on the wrong side of history,Their rage impotent, their numbers miniscule!We Brothers represent the will of God!Who told you?Why did you believe him?Was it the will of God that your leaders collaborate with Mubarak?What of your rivals at home who claim the same?And your noisy neighbours, each with their preachers in tow?The Sultans in Abu Dhabi and Riyadh?The Ayatollahs in Qom and Karbala?The godly warlords in the White House?The Pope in the Vatican?The Rabbis in the Jerusalem Synagogue?Their God is great too, is he not?The Book teaches us there is only one God,Omnipotent, indivisible, all-seeing.Why does He speak in so many different tongues and voices?Is He trying to please all at the same time?Both Israel and Palestine?Both oppressor and oppressed?Leave Him alone for the moment,Tell us what else you believe in?How will you deal with our exploitersstarting with those inside your ranks?Does the sun belong to you alone?Is your God a neoliberal?Must the poor live off charity for ever?Why are our people despairing?How long will you chain their freedoms?Whose side are you really on?Tariq Ali31 July 2011EgyptArab and Middle East unrestIslamReligionPoetryMiddle EastAfricaTariq Aliguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
私はexhaustedYouは禁じられていたものを教えてshadowsToから生まれたとwhy.Youは大声で話すと29 JulyPatienceで金曜礼拝後のカイロのタハリール広場で示されるイスラム教徒の兄弟に最後のFridayIアドレスのエジプトの首都でのイベントに応答してこの詩をこの詩を書いた明らかに、それぞれの聖歌は、むち打ち症：！神は偉大である神の律法は、民主主義を超越し自由主義者と世俗主義者もコプト教徒地球のスカムであり、摘発女性や左翼は、、彼らの怒りは無力、歴史の誤った側にトラップさ！！その数極小！我々の兄弟神の意志を表す！誰があなたに話した？なぜあなたは彼を信じるのですか？それはあなたの指導者がムバラクと協力している神の意志になった？同じことを主張する自宅であなたのライバルの何か、そしてあなたの騒々しい隣人、後ろに従えて彼らの説教師と各？アブダビとリヤドでスルタン？コムとカルバラinアヤトラ？ホワイトハウスの信仰心の厚い武将？教皇、バチカンの？エルサレムのシナゴーグのラビ？彼らの神が大きすぎる、彼ではありませんか？今は1つだけの神、全能の、不可分、すべての- seeing.Why彼は非常に多くの異なる舌と声で話すのでしょうか？彼は一度にすべてを喜ばせるためとしているがあるか？イスラエルとパレスチナの両方を教えてくれる？両方の迫害者と抑圧された？一瞬だけで彼を残すには、年を信じて他に何を教えてください？どのようにあなたのランクの中にあるものと私たちのexploitersstartingに対処するのだろうか？太陽は単独で使用するに属しているのか？あなたの神は、新自由主義か？貧しい必要があります永遠に人の善意に頼って生きるなぜ私たちの人々は絶望的ですどのくらいあなたはそれらの自由を連鎖させる予定の味方しているあなたは本当に上のTariq Ali31 July 2011EgyptArabと中東unrestIslamReligionPoetryMiddle EastAfricaTariq Aliguardian.co.uk ©ガーディアンニュース＆メディア株式会社2011 |？？使用このコンテンツを当社の規約に従うもの|その他フィード
- A guide to Libya's new political landscape | Ghaffar Hussain
A post-Gaddafi Libya will see liberals, Islamists and secularists jostling for position with the largest grouping: nationalistsThe ousting of the Gaddafi clan and the collapse of their jamahiriya system, has left many feeling unsure about Libya's political future. After all, the National Transitional Council (NTC) is not a political party and won't exist beyond the first elections. Many of its members, being having been officials in Gaddafi's regime, are unlikely to seek executive political positions.The systematic suppression of civil society and all forms of opposition by Gaddafi has also left the country weak and fragile. So who will dominate Libya's political scene in the coming years?The political scene in Libya today comprises four broad camps: nationalists, liberals, Islamists and secularists, according to Noman Benotman, an analyst at the Quilliam Foundation who is also a former member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.The nationalist camp, being the largest of these factions by far, contains 40%-50% of Libya's political activists. These are largely non-ideological players who will seek to establish a civil state based on Libyan culture and democracy. They have no strong views on the role of Islam in the state but do see it as an integral part of Libyan culture.Many key defectors, such as Abdel-Salam Jalloud and Mustafa Abdul Jalil, are nationalists and currently the most high-profile political figures in Libya. As such, they could quite easily appeal to the masses, create a large power base and dominate the political scene.The liberals, comprising 20%-25%, support an open democratic system with a free market economy. They will seek to create a civil state rooted in liberal values and encourage a socially liberal climate. However, they are viewed as elitist b ポストカダフィリビアは最大のグループ化と位置については目白押しリベラル、イスラム主義者と世俗主義者が表示されます
- Raise high the crucifix! | Andrew Brown
The attempt to drive religious symbols from Italian classrooms was wrong and potentially disastrous. We should be glad it failedThe decision of the European court of Human Rights that Italian schools may continue to display a crucifix in the classroom is obviously a victory for common sense, which only fanatics would disapprove. But it is also, in a small way, something to help rescue the European project, and to preserve us from the wilder excesses of American political life. The idea that human rights legislation should be used to prevent children from being exposed to a crucifix is a profoundly totalitarian and superstitious perversion of one of our civilisation's best inventions. To understand why, consider another family which would want their children protect from crucifixes, but this time not secular Finns, but Muslims. They exist. One Shia Muslim girl I know was not allowed as a child to walk through much of the Victoria & Albert museum, because to do so would expose her to Christian symbolism. My family thought this was ridiculous and no doubt secularists would be a great deal ruder about it than that. But by the logic of superstition it was completely undeniable: Christian art had a magical power which might weaken her Muslim identity, so she must be protected from this contagion. Of course this line of argument is entirely atavistic and has nothing to do with reason or liberalism. The trouble is that it is the same kind of argument that is used to pretend that a crucifix in a classroom will somehow corrupt the children exposed to its baleful presence.And if a secularist is able to protest against the presence of a crucifix in a classroom on the grounds that it breaches her children's human rights, why shouldn't a Muslim bring a lawsuit against the V&A for dis イタリア語教室から宗教的なシンボルを駆動するための試みは、潜在的に悲惨な間違っていた
- Torture: crimes with impunity | Editorial
Human Rights Watch reports that there are solid grounds to investigate George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald RusmfeldIt is often said that only by confronting the past can nations construct a better future. Germany, Spain, Argentina, Chile and South Africa have put themselves through the wringer of historical self-examination. Putin's Russia has yet to. It is, though, easier to point the finger at dark episodes embedded in the past than to apply the same scrutiny to recent history. To be both liberal and democratic is to be axiomatically part of a club that examines itself. Not so, argues Human Rights Watch. Exhibit A? Barack Obama's record in investigating the allegations of detainee abuse authorised by his predecessor, George W Bush.The wrongdoing of that administration is today broadly, although not universally, acknowledged. Waterboarding has been declared as torture by the attorney general Eric Holder. Enhanced interrogation techniques are no longer used. The CIA has closed down its programme of secret detention centres. Unidentified planes no longer land at odd hours at Prestwick Airport with unknown human cargoes (although rendition-type questions have been raised about a Somali interrogated aboard a US warship for two months). There are still 171 detainees in Guantánamo Bay, and military commissions still exist, but in general it is fair to say the most egregious practises of the Bush war on terror have ceased. Far from enhancing security, the wisdom in Washington today is that these practises endangered it .The crimes are there for all to see, but the people who ordered them, sanctioned them and bent the Geneva conventions for them, walk free. Two weeks ago, the search for accountability hit the buffers when Mr Holder announced that a two-year review by a special 人権は、多くの場合のみ、過去に直面することによって国家はよりよい未来を構築することができるといわれているジョージブッシュ、チェイニー、ドナルドRusmfeldItを調査するために確固とした根拠があるという報告をご覧ください
- Sarah Palin's bus tour: what will be the next stop?
The Alaskan politician is keeping her itinerary a secret, but here's where we think she might visitBy refusing to divulge her itinerary to the media, Sarah Palin has turned her weird East Coast battle bus tour into a giant guessing game, closely mirroring the fevered speculation that attends her electoral ambitions. So far she's been to: Washington DC; Mount Vernon (home of George Washington); Gettysburg; Philadelphia and New York, where she met Donald Trump, the one-time presidential aspirant whose share of the Idiot Vote is up for grabs.She's heading north, but that's all we know. Where will she end up next? Here are some options:Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, Connecticut This Indian reservation is home to what's left of the much-massacred Pequot tribe, but it's also the site of the enormous Foxwoods resort and casino, which demonstrates how a proud and determined people can rebuild their lost nation by taking the money of fools and addicts – a notion as quintessentially American as processed cheese. If she drops in on Sunday she'll be in time for the anniversary of an attack on a Pequot village by colonists in 1637. Also, the Go-Gos are playing. Exit 92 off I-95.Boston, Massachusetts Almost certainly on Palin's double-secret itinerary, it being the birthplace of the American revolution and home of the original Boston Tea Party – where colonists dressed as Indians dumped tea shipments into the harbour, a protest against British taxation that ultimately led to Americans drinking a lot less tea. This historical event has since been co-opted and misrepresented by the rightwing tax cranks of the Tea Party movement, and Palin is their uncrowned Queen. But Boston is also the American geographical centre of woolly liberalism, so she must not be seen to be having too good アラスカの政治家が、彼女の旅程の秘密を保持しているが、ここでは、彼女がvisitByメディアに彼女の旅程を明かすことを拒否するかもしれないと思うところです、サラペイリン氏は大変な憶測が、巨大なゲームを推測して密接にミラーリングを彼女の奇妙な東海岸の戦いのバスツアーになっている彼女の選挙の野望を通っている
- La Salada: The Largest Informal Market In South America
La Salada, in Buenos Aires, is recognized as the largest informal market in Latin America. It is international and run by immigrants and locals. It is a product of the brutal neoliberal policies implemented in Argentina by former President Carlos Menem in the 1990s. Buenos Aires is now once again a global city after the sovereign default of 2001. (For some good in-depth stories, see the work by Mario Santucho in www.revistacrisis.com.ar and the work of Verónica Gago of the cooperative Colectivo Situaciones.) Here I will give the basics; in the next post I will go into the details of how they are organized and how they got to be so large and so "in your face." ブエノスアイレスのラサラダは、中南米最大の非公式な市場として認識されています
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- Letters: Multiculturalism and national identity
David Miliband is not strictly correct when he says that the third of the population who class themselves as ambivalent on the issue of multiculturalism identify with Labour (Insecurity is fuel for hate, 28 February). It would be more accurate to describe them as those who used to identify with Labour, as it was this group that deserted the party at the last election. As a Labour candidate I lost count of the number of times I heard when out canvassing that we had failed to get a grip on immigration – including from many ethnic minority voters. It is also a view reinforced by the fact that every time a Labour MP brings up these difficult issues, such as Margaret Hodge and housing allocation in 2007, or Jack Straw and sexual grooming earlier this year, they are always ostracised by liberal commentators.A key factor in making Labour electable again will be to come up with policies on immigration that reflect the economic insecurity that many communities now feel, regardless of race. Not doing this will simply leave the debate open to David Cameron, and the far right.Nicholas MiltonStratford-upon-Avon• David Miliband rightly highlights the need for people of all cultures to enjoy an authentic sense of identity, but surely that is not the point of difficulty in Britain today. The national sense of identity reveals itself through our media, our schools and many other institutions. If there are groups within society whose sense of alienation is a potential source of discontent, then we will not win them over by lectures about muscular liberalism, nor even by advocating a common identity which already exists. What is needed is to open a real social dialogue, which not only calls for those from minority cultures to recognise British identity, but also shows them that legendary デイヴィッドミリバンドは、厳密に彼は言うときに修正されていないクラス自体は、多文化主義の問題について態度を決めかねて労働と特定の人口の（不安は憎しみの燃料である2月28日）は、サードいることを確認します
- The likely atheists | Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
A century of research has highlighted that atheists tend to be well-educated – and that top scientists are especially godlessThe question: What can science say about atheism?What can we say about individuals who are atheists or agnostics, those who do not share the common tendency to believe in the world of the spirits and in some spirits that are greater than others and control our destiny? A century of research can guide us.Those with no religious affiliation have been found to be younger, mostly male, with higher levels of education and income, more liberal, but also more unhappy and more alienatedfrom wider society. Such findings have been reported in the US, Australia, and Canada.Some atheists have been raised without any religious teaching; others have chosen to reject what they have been taught as children. Those who have come from religious homes and given up religion have had more distant relations with their parents, and a commitment to intellectualism.Irreligiosity is tied to greater political liberalism, and to being less prejudiced.Radical students who were members of the students' Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1964 (which started the 1960s upheavals on American campuses), were more likely to come from families that were identified as Jewish, agnostic, or atheist.The claim that atheists are somehow likely to be immoral or dishonest has long been debunked. Studies that looked at readiness to help or honesty showed atheists standing out, not the religious. When it comes to the more serious matter of violence and crime, ever since the field of criminology got started, and data collected of the religious affiliation of criminal offenders, the fact that the unaffiliated and the non-religious had the lowest crime rates has bee 科学は無神論について何を言うことができる私たちは無神論者や不可知論者かについて個人が言うことができる、これらの者の共通を共有していない内容：？との一流の科学者は、特にgodlessThe質問されていること - 研究の世紀は無神論者は高学歴する傾向があることがハイライト表示さ。。u200b。。u200bれている傾向が霊の世界では、他よりも大きいと私たちの運命を制御するいくつかの霊を信じるか？研究の世紀は無宗教とus.Thoseをガイドすることができます、教育、所得、より自由な、より高いレベルで、ほとんどが男性より若いことが判明しているが、より不幸な、よりalienatedfrom広く社会を
- Canada plunged into unscheduled national election campaign
For the fourth time in seven years, Canadians will be going to the polls to try to break a political deadlock that began a decade ago when the country's dominant party, the Liberals, were caught in a corruption and kickback scandal.
The last election, like the two previous campaigns, resulted in a hung parliament. Stephen Harper's Conservatives won the most seats, but not a majority in the 308-member house.
The Conservatives needed the support of at least one of the three opposition partie ... 七年間で4度目は、カナダ人が国の支配的な党は、自由主義、腐敗とキックバック事件に巻き込まれたときに10年前始めた政局を打開するしようとする投票に行くことになります
- Letters: Berlusconi at fault for economic failure
Your editorial (A conflict too far, 14 December) rightly records a few of the many scandals that render Berlusconi unfit to govern, but omitted the one with the greatest impact on ordinary Italians. This is the macroeconomic catastrophe that has occurred since 2001 – the year Berlusconi came to power, to remain there for seven of the nine subsequent years. In the eight years up to 2001, when Berlusconi was out of office for all but seven months, Italy's economic performance was mediocre but roughly in line with that of other large European countries. In the eight years from 2001 to 2009, Italy has been the only major country whose economy shrank over the period as a whole.Berlusconi entered politics in 1993 promising a liberal revolution that would shrink the size of the state. Public spending was 53% of GDP at that time, and this share fell steadily to reach 46% in 2000. Once he came to power in 2001, the steady fall was reversed, and it was back up to 49% when he left office in 2006. It remained unchanged in the two ensuing years, and, since Berlusconi's re-election in 2008, has risen back to 53%. In this regard, he has delivered the precise opposite of what he promised. This outcome is the consequence of the economic stagnation that he has brought. It is now clear that anybody seeking a liberal economic revolution would be unwise to entrust the task to a monopolist.While the conflict of interest and bunga bunga scandals can be laid at Berlusconi's door, it must be recognised that blame for the macroeconomic catastrophe must be shared by the Northern League, his partner in government throughout the period since 2001.Charles YoungOxfordSilvio BerlusconiItalyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditio あなたの社説は、（競合すぎ12月14日）当然、レンダリングベルルスコーニ不向きが支配している多くのスキャンダルのいくつかの記録が、普通のイタリア人に最も影響を省略しております
- Neoliberalism is destroying Europe | Christian Marazzi
Austerity and repression won't bring Europe out of crisis, we need a social struggle against freemarket politicsThe European sovereign debt crisis, which was caused by member states' public debt but increased because of the actions taken to rescue the banks after the 2008 crisis, demonstrates at least three things. First, that currency does not exist without a state. Second, that capitalism cannot be managed by the market alone. And third, that the austerity measures will not bring Europe out of the crisis but will in fact continue to make it worse – until the euro crashes.However, the most important point to emerge from the crisis is that Europe's political reinvention will depend exclusively on the social struggle against neoliberal politics. Neoliberalism, the absurd idea of economic government based solely on the market and its ability to self-regulate, is at the root of the great illusion of a leaderless Europe supposedly unified by a euro that has controlled the internal economic and social differences according to the logic of the financial markets.And yet, neoliberalism is still the only language used by European politicians to confront the crisis and to face the social conflicts that will break out over the next few months. There exists no European government; only management of austerity measures and of repression.The European banking stress tests were of little use – they only breathed a bit of life back into the German and French banks that had been exposed to the sovereign debt of the outlying countries of the EU. The recent economic successes of Germany – the increase in exports, in particular to areas outside the eurozone – cannot reverse the direction of the euro's crisis.In fact, the cracks between the economically strong countries and those that are in 緊縮財政と弾圧は、危機のヨーロッパを引き出すれませんが、我々は、加盟国の公共債務によって引き起こされただが、2008年危機後の銀行を救済する実行されるアクションのための増加フリーマーケットpoliticsThe欧州ソブリン債務危機に対する社会的闘争を必要とする少なくとも3つのことを示しています
- I'm home!
last night i returned.
and i learned from many fail on my american travel.
「昨夜遅く無事に帰国しましちゃ
- Chile: the other 9/11 anniversary | Raúl Zibechi
The devastating legacy of Pinochet's coup of 11 September 1973 goes far beyond the economy and the armed forcesOf the many military coups faced by the republics of Latin America, it is the coup of 11 September 1973 that has engraved itself most permanently on the collective memory. The images of the bombing of the Moneda Palace, of the despair on the face of Salvador Allende shortly before his suicide, of the defiant expression worn by Pinochet behind his dark glasses and of the public burning of books that circulated around the world and became the symbol of military brutality.The dispersal into exile of 200,000 Chileans, most of them to Europe, added to the media images of men and women who had seen their lives destroyed by the death or disappearance of friends and relatives. The murder of thousands of political opponents and the detention and torture of people who were identified with the constitutional government isolated the military regime internationally.The coup was supported by the US government of Richard Nixon. But after 1977, the Carter administration distanced itself from Pinochet because of his repeated violation of human rights. The regime remained in power for 16 years, becoming one of the longest lasting military dictatorships in Latin America, and it almost certainly introduced more changes than in any other country. Economic policy took a radical neoliberal turn under the influence of Milton Friedman. Allende's nationalisations were reversed and a programme of privatisations was introduced, together with the elimination of tariff barriers; this, alongside the banning of trade unions, produced a dramatic fall in real wages and an equally dramatic increase in business profits.During Pinochet's time there was a massive influx of foreign capital, which pr 11年9月1973多くの軍事クーデターラテンアメリカの共和国が直面する経済までと武装forcesOfを超えてのピノチェトのクーデターの壊滅的な遺産は、それはクーデターが1973年9月11日、最も完全に集団的記憶に自分自身を刻まれています
- Michael Tomasky: Intellectual consistency can be overrated
When we write about libertarianism, most liberals feel compelled to say something like, you know, I disagree with that viewpoint, but I respect that it's principled and intellectually consistent.I say balderdookey. Libertarianism is kookoo. There can be no such thing as a basically stateless society (except for national defense and barest administration of law, I think are the exceptions they typically allow for). It's just ridiculous. Civil society would collapse without the state.I've written this before, a few months ago. Conservatives, and libertarians, seem to think that we have regulations in this society because we have a bunch of underemployed pencil pushers sitting around dreaming up ways to make small business people's lives miserable.It's ridiculous. We have regulations because throughout history people in various pursuits did really sleazy and unethical things. They swindled investors, they dumped toxins into bodies of water, they made children work long hours for slave wages. Et cetera. And so laws were passed and regulations were written.And unfortunately such is man's endless capacity for sleaze and unethicality that this process will never end: as technology presents new ways to be sleazy, we'll always need to invent new ways to prevent sleaze from happening.Yes, fine. Some regulations are onerous. Liberals should always be sensitive to legitimate concerns along these lines.But you need a state. Time and history have proven no one else will perform these tasks.So there's nothing in the least inellectually respectable about libertarianism. Intellectually consistent? Great. So was Goebbels. That doesn't mean much to me.We all support a few libertarian-ish principles; we all agree that the state should have some limits. For example, I think it's perfectly f 私たちは約リバタリアニズムを書く、最もリベラル何かのように、あなたが、私は視点に反対するけど、私は尊重してそれが理にかなっている知的consistent.Iはbalderdookeyと答えを得ないと感じる
- 'McFat tax' plan proving hard to stomach
BUCHAREST - For post-communist Romanians a Big Mac and soft drink meant much more than a meal. It was a culinary signpost from the free and capitalist West - a sign they too, at last, had arrived.But modernity requires something... ブカレストの投稿-は共産主義ルーマニアのビッグマックやソフトドリンクの多くの食事よりも意味する
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