The no-nonsense guide to Islam

Marx's revenge

the resurgence of Capitalism and the death os statist socialism

#In the triumphant resurgence of capitalism and indeed its global reach, the one thinker who is vindicated is Karl Marx. The demise of the socialist experiment inaugurated by October 1917 would not distress but cheer Marx if, as an atheist, he occupies any part of ...

Politicide

Ariel Sharon´s war against the palestinians

Image and reality of the Israel-Palestine conflict

Market-driven politics

neoliberal democracy and the public interest

Market-Driven Politics is a multi-level study, moving between an analysis of global economic forces through national politics to the changes occurring week by week in two fields of public life that are both fundamentally important and familiar to everyone#television broadcasting and health care. Public ...

Bush in Babylon

the recolonisation of Iraq

Translational conflitcts

central ameriva, social change and globalization

Contemporary capitalism has disrupted the conventional pattern of revolutionary upheaval, civil wars and pacification in Central America. This study maps the transnational processes that have shaped the region's past and its possible futures

The Holocaust industry

reflections on the exploitation of jewish suffering

Incoherent empire

In this book noted sociologist Michael Mann argues that the #new American imperialism# is actually a new militarism that will bring disaster to the US and the world. The US is a military giant, better at devastating than pacifying countries. It is politically schizophrenic, split ...

The boom and the bubble

the US in the world economy

Only three years ago, the world economy seemed poised on the edge of catastrophe, as financial firestorms ripped through East Asia, Russia and Latin America. A sustained period of significant growth in the US, however, seemed to save the day against all the odds. So ...

The no-nonsense guide to global media

Redistribution or recognition?

a political-philosophical exchange

"Recognition" has become a keyword of our time, but its relation to economic "redistribution" remains unclear. This volume stages a debate between two philosophers, one North American, the other German, who hold different views of the relation of redistribution to recognition. Axel Honneth conceives recognition ...

The new rules of the world

Banking on death

or, investing in life: the history and future of pensions

The onset of globalization and the ageing of populations have encouraged efforts to privatize the funding of retirement funds, putting at risk the public provision of pensions in many countries and giving pension and insurance funds great financial power. In "Banking on Death" Robin Blackburn ...

Wooden eyes

nine refelctions on distance

Carlo Ginzburg's new book is a thought-provoking study of the various meanings of distance. The author opens with a defamiliarization which traces the roots of the idea in classical and enlightenment culture, he then moves on to explorations of the concepts of perspective, representation ...

Did somebody say totalitarianism?

five interventions in the (mis)use of a notion

In some circles, a nod towards totalitarianism is enough to dismiss any critique of the status quo. Such is the insidiousness of the neo-liberal ideology, argues Slavoj Žižek. Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? turns a specious rhetorical strategy on its head to identify a network of ...

The Invention of the White Race

Volume 2: The Origins of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America

On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, Martin Luther King declared his dream of a racially integrated, non-discriminatory American society. Some three centuries before, that dream had in many ways been a reality, since white skin privilege was recognized neither in law nor ...