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A Tornado of Public Safety: Neoliberalism and Punishment at the Dawn of the 21st Century

The neocon punishment and social policy – that is zero tolerance and the criminalisation of the poor – still rages. Why? Because the Washington Consensus and cutbacks in the social safety net now are also including the punishing control of criminals, furthermore the invisible hand of the market implies and makes it necessary the use of the iron fist of the punishing state. Comprehensive studies made over the past decade also reveal that it is now not an issue of punishment policy and criminology only but a new political line has been established.

Iraq: The Age of Darkness

Iraq was turned into a huge free trade paradise that brought nightmares from hell for Iraqis. The country became the colony of capital meaning extreme pillage in a bloody capitalist laboratory. All assets that could be found now are owned by foreigners. Iraqis understood: the age of darkness had arrived for them.


Ecological Civilisation

It is essential for our survival as a species that we reverse the degradation of the earth's life support systems. Agriculture and industry organised by principles of capital accumulation are inherently destroying their environment thus it is necessary contradicts the ecological knowledge gathered since the 19th century. Thus a new and ecological civilisation must be non-capitalistic. Its main pillars will include the self-organisation of living and working communities, biodiversity, and in several cases self-sufficiency that are matched with global cultural interchange and cooperation.

I-generation – An introduction into the understanding of virtual reality

The second reality has the feature of making illusion complete. What kind of illusion? The illusion we have, that there is no need for action to protect the first reality from its annihilation. The annihilation of the first reality is natural, the illusion says, because it will be replaced by total virtual reality. I-generation is the unconscious constructor and instrument of this nightmare.