The Biggest Risk to the Economy in 2012, and What’s the Economy For Anyway? – Robert Reich

  The crisis of American capitalism marks the triumph of consumers and investors over   workers and citizens…


OCCUPY: Why It Started. Who’s Behind It. What’s Next.

 

Arianna Huffington: HuffPost’s Latest e-Book: OCCUPY: Why It Started. Who’s Behind It. What’s Next..


Richard Branson: Science, the Final Frontier

Richard Branson: Science, the Final Frontier.


Time Person of the Year Runner-Up: Ai Weiwei

Person of the Year Runner-Up: Ai Weiwei – Person of the Year 2011 – TIME.


TIME’s Person of 2011 – The Protester

TIME’s Person of the Year 2011 


God Bless Your Hands, Ali

Ali Farzat’s drawings confront you with the bare truth, no more and no less. For Ali Farzat, cartoons are not just an art form that pleases and he never aims to amuse or make people laugh. Cartoons are a very sensitive and effective weapon in the struggle for humanity. Ali Farzat’s primary cause is freedom, and he defends human rights and human dignity whatever the consequences and whatever the price.

God Bless Your Hands, Ali | World Affairs Journal


Who Is Ai Weiwei?

Who Is Ai Weiwei? | Artinfo.

According to Chinese authorities, he is a dissident to be watched, one whose inflammatory blog needed to be silenced. But to others, the Chinese conceptual artist, architect, photographer, and curator — loathed and loved for his human rights activism — is the courageous voice needed in today’s repressive China.


The Bankers and the Revolutionaries – NYTimes.com

 

 The Bankers and the Revolutionaries – NYTimes.com.


Hélène Grimaud’s Life as a Concert Pianist : The New Yorker

 

Hélène Grimaud’s Life as a Concert Pianist : The New Yorker.


Steve Jobs’s Real Genius : The New Yorker

A complicated and exhausting man who knew how  to make things better – Steve Jobs’s Real Genius : The New Yorker


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