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Why the U.S. stimulus package is bound to fail

David Harvey Much is to be gained by viewing the contemporary crisis as a surface eruption generated out of deep tectonic shifts in the spatio-temporal disposition of capitalist development. The tectonic plates are now accelerating their motion and the likelihood of more frequent and more violent crises of the sort that have been occurring since [...]

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March 15th, 2009 | Platypus Review editor | 2 comments | Continued
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The Failure of Pakistan: Perspectives on the crisis, its past, present, and future

A teach-in, panel discussion and moderated audience Q&A on the failure of the Left in Pakistan. Panelists -Ayesha Siddiqa (author of Military Inc, Inside Pakistan’s Military Economy) on “Pakistan’s Military Economy” -Manan Ahmed (University of Chicago) on “The Populism of the Bhuttos” -Atiya Khan (Platypus, University of Chicago) on “The Vicissitudes of Leftist Politics in [...]

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February 2nd, 2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued