∞ The second point is that the homeland and Olympic security boom is being fuelled by the widening adoption of the idea of "asymmetric" war as the key security idea among nation states, militaries and corporations. Here, rather than war with other states, the main challenge for states is deemed to be mobilising more or less permanently against vague non-state or civilian threats that lurk within their own cities and the infrastructures that connect them.

∞ Women's self-loathing is big business, and supports a global capitalist system that, ironically, depends heavily on the exploitation of women's labour in developing countries. Adding insult to injury, many of these underpaid women are spending a significant proportion of their wages on skin-whitening products that promise social mobility out of the sweatshops.

So my friend Emily Sams only went and got published in the Guardian! You can read the article Here (by Patrick Mcguiness) and have a look at more of her work on her Website or for more up-to-date information her Blog. I keep hearing “Movin’ on up” in my head….

So my friend Emily Sams only went and got published in the Guardian!

You can read the article Here (by Patrick Mcguiness) and have a look at more of her work on her Website or for more up-to-date information her Blog.

I keep hearing “Movin’ on up” in my head….

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If you’re a leftwinger, the causes of the violence and looting are straightforward: they’re the result of monstrous inequality and historic spending cuts; while the youth running amok through branches of JD Sports are what happens when you offer a generation plastic consumerism rather than meaningful jobs.

For the right, explaining the violence is even simpler – because any attempt at understanding is tantamount to condoning it. Better by far to talk of a society with a sense of over-entitlement; or to do what the prime minister did and simply dismiss “pockets of our society that are not just broken but, frankly, sick”. You can expect to hear more of the same rhetoric in today’s debate in parliament, especially from backbenchers on either side

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- Aditya Chakrabortty - UK riots: political classes see what they want to see

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