GW Bush 20 Sept 2001: "“And one of the great goals of this nation's war is to restore public confidence in the airline industry and to tell the traveling public, get on board, do your business around the country, fly and enjoy America's great destination spots. Go down to Disney World in Florida, take your families and enjoy life the way we want it to be enjoyed.”
Interview by Hugo Prieto in Contrapunto.com
12 October 2015
Article
Edgardo Lander argues that Venezuela’s once-hopeful revolution is coming to an end, because it failed to overcome the Leninist logic of verticality as well as the model of the rentier state.
"Electoral calculations eliminate all possibility of transformation, of going beyond, of imagining a different country, because the starting point is what already exists. In this sense, electoral competition has an extraordinarily conservative effect on political systems, reaffirming ‘common sense’; whoever goes beyond these limits will have big problems."
"Neither in political debates nor in government programmes is there an acknowledgment of where we are. The two party political forces differ in absolutely everything, except for one small detail: both offer (at least when Chávez was last elected) an oil production of six million barrels a day by the end of this constitutional period. They disagree on everything else except the idea of strengthening the oil rentier-state model. But this is precisely what needs to be discussed. The problem is that there is a nation-wide rentier-state consensus. "
The smart city is, to many urban thinkers, just a buzzphrase that has outlived its usefulness: ‘the wrong idea pitched in the wrong way to the wrong people’. So why did that happen – and what’s coming in its place, asks Steven Poole
Guardian 17.12.2014
In truth, competing visions of the smart city are proxies for competing visions of society, and in particular about who holds power in society. “In the end, the smart city will destroy democracy,” Hollis warns. “Like Google, they’ll have enough data not to have to ask you what you want.”
Åsa Linderborg om ett journalistiskt experiment
Visa alla bilderKvällsposten och GT lägger ner sina kulturredaktioner. De genererar inte tillräckligt många klick, säger GT:s chefredaktör Frida Boisen.
"Var tredje lokalredaktion har försvunnit de senaste tio åren och fler är att vänta, enligt en rapport från Södertörn. Två säregna redaktioner - kultur och ledare - försvann. Bonniers och med dem den liberala hegemonin stärkte ytterligare greppet.
Kulturminister Alice Bah Kuhnkes första åtgärd måste vara att tillsätta en haverikommission vid sidan av en mediautredning. Det är mer än ett bogvisir som har lossnat. Hela demokratin är på väg ner i djupet och vi med den."
P. Nikiforos Diamandouros on to the public hearing on the Revision of Regulation 1049/2001 on public access to documents, European Parliament - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Brussels, 2 June