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> And the Communist regime in Poland, which had been installed by Stalin at the end of the Second World War, had reasons to be concerned about Milosz. It's amazing how heavy-handed…

There is plenty of news coverage of this in China, both in English and in Chinese - http://www.ecns.cn/2017/05-24/258802.shtml http://www.ecns.cn/2017/05-18/258072.shtml http://en.…

> The problem with Marx is not that his analysis is nonsensical, as Mr Gauke maintains, but that his solution was far worse than the disease. What solution did Marx propose? In the…

There is an idea that the dominant form of production in our age is done in a manner that causes alienation on a number of fronts for those who do the producing. Part of this is co…

> The CPGB’s loyalty to Moscow also triggered its morally darkest moments – the switches of line dictated by the Communist International (Comintern) in the 1920s and 1930s; the U-t…

> China has the right to take care of its national security, sure. But not at the expense of the right to self-determination of other nations. How about the self-determination of t…

They should ask for lessons from the clubs that Israel's government creates to curb pro-Palestinian speech. They even got Congress to pass laws to curb Palestinian criticisms of Is…

> spread disinformation about them Then why does Voice of America have a Russian language TV and radio broadcast? All it does is spread disinformation about Russia. There's no proo…

If money was distributed in the USA for something that is actually competitive, like athletics, then people of African descent would rule the country, as they seem to dominate this…

The US government bankrolls the self-described "National Endowment for Democracy", which openly boasts ( http://www.ned.org/region/central-and-eastern-europe/ ) of meddling in Russ…

> What I want to know, how to turn your motivation back right away, without changing a job or taking a vacation. Sometimes vacations are very demotivating. If the work situation is…

> Do we want politicians making decisions for businesses and controlling the free market? So a visa only available to workers with a certain skill set that chained them to companie…

Reminds me of one of Peter Norvig's "Plot Synopses for Episodes of a Gilligan’s Island Remake Starring Members of the Bush Administration" for McSweeney's Internet Tendency "The pr…

Sure. Prior to World War II, the FBI began keeping a list of people to be rounded up "in the event of a national emergency" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Index ). Some people…

It's not much of a mystery to crack. The chart starts in 1950 with 63.6%. In that year, one out of three American workers in the private sector were in a union. Today one out of fi…

I guess they'll just have to settle for (horrors!) American workers.

Noam Chomsky was interviewed the other day and he said something like "the only thing the Democrats seem to be complaining about with Trump is that he wants to ease tensions with R…

> a CEO can somehow ‘earn’ £10m per year, whereas a teacher ‘earns’ £25k per year. That’s only possible if you divorce the word ‘earn’ from any of its actual meaning It's not even …

Industrial capacity utilization is currently less than 76%, which is historically low. So about a quarter of invested capital is sitting idle currently ( https://fraser.stlouisfed.…

> rights for content creators I scratch my head when I hear talk of this, because the past century and a half has been a steady march in western economy and politics against rights…

Every decade since the 1960s, Real (ie. non-financial) US GDP growth has slowed ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A191RL1Q225SBEA ). Industrial capacity utilization has been shr…

> end up in public purview, sometimes not even among the workers in a company I agree. The exact same thing happens on closed corporate projects, it just happens behind closed door…

Having worked for corporate software projects and for free software projects, I can't say that free software projects are dominated by personnel issues any more than corporate soft…

> John D. was a devoted Osteopath for most of his life. If you haven't read Titan, it's a fascinating bio. That's interesting, I didn't know that. More than osteopathy, the similar…