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Thought Control In Economics

Abdul — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:17:11 -0500

A high level of conformity in academic institutions makes it difficult for economists to tackle the world’s most pressing problems.

From Adbusters #78

We Grew Up Too Comfortable to Take Risks

Abdul — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:07:18 -0500

What if Japan, the face of the future, is showing us who we are becoming – as a kind of proverbial ‘canary in a coal mine,’ a Cassandra of our trans-cultural futures.

From Adbusters #79

America's Confidence Crisis

Abdul — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:26:21 -0500

After five years of lies, incompetence and disorder, the US is facing a moral crisis that it may not survive.

From Adbusters #76

Susan Sontag

Abdul — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:05:56 -0500

When the life Sontag loved fell away and the death she feared took over, relaxation set into her body for the first time, a smile appeared on her lips and her brow unfurled.

From Adbusters #77

Vulture Funds: A New Category in Capitalism

Abdul — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:49:59 -0500

A new capitalism – brutal and conquering – is moving in. It’s the capitalism of a new category of vulture funds: private equity funds with the appetite of an ogre that command colossal amounts of capital.

From Adbusters #76

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization

Abdul — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:11:16 -0500

We’ve reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum. So while hipsterdom is the end product of all prior countercultures, it’s been stripped of its subversion and originality. (Cover story of Adbusters Issue #79, hitting the newsstands now.)

From Adbusters #79

East Meets West

Abdul — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:18:54 -0500

In her iconic series, Chinese-born, German-raised artist Yang Liu uses simple pictograms depicting key cultural differences between East and West. China is represented by the red side and Germany by the blue.

From Adbusters #77

The Revolutionaries

Abdul — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:56:42 -0500

Amidst all the hoopla of ad campaigns, business news and growth projections, a close examination of our consumer culture reveals a very ugly truth: it thrives on the death of nature, and charges the cost to future generations.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. We still have time to redesign our economic model. All it takes is a critical mass of visionaries to step forward.

From Adbusters #55

Feminism and the Mastery of Nature

Abdul — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:19:23 -0500

Val Plumwood saw the danger of the western attitude towards nature decades before eco-consciousness went mainstream.

From Adbusters #78

Meme War: Freedom Fighters Or Terrorists

Abdul — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:02:36 -0500

What’s in a name? The line between “terrorist” and “state terror” blurs with over 30,000 Kurds killed by the Turkish army.

From Adbusters #77