Newsletter 379

[5]Wall Street’s Euthanasia Of Industry
Links:
5. http://b.rw/nysAaj

Bonnie Faulkner & Michael Hudson | Michael Hudson | 16 July 2011

Blistering critique of Obama's fiscal policy by economics professor.
Interview covers debt ceiling, Greece, China, bank bailouts. Opening
question: What is a jobless recovery? Answer: We call that a depression
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/wall-street’s-euthanasia-industry

[7]The Singularity Is Far
Links:
7. http://b.rw/okX1YY

David J. Linden | BoingBoing | 14 July 2011

Neurobiologist counters Kurzweil's prediction that by 2039 brain nanobots
and mind-uploads will be commonplace. Understanding neural functions remains
a slow, linear process despite exponential growth in available research data
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/singularity-far

[9]The Rape Of Men
Links:
9. http://b.rw/pHyWSJ

Will Storr | Observer | 17 July 2011

Remarkably powerful, harrowing piece of writing on a topic -- male rape --
that is largely ignored by UN, governments and aid agencies. "Of all the
secrets of war, there is one that is so well kept that it exists mostly as a
rumour" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/rape-men

[11]Myanmar, Land Of Shadows
Links:
11. http://b.rw/ppijdk

Brook Larmer | National Geographic | 18 July 2011

Time to rethink Burma. It's not a morality play, at least not any longer,
with The Lady good and the soldiers bad. It's a big country with a
complicated history, where the shadows are starting to lift and lots of
things are possible [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/myanmar-land-shadows

[13]Steve Coogan’s Grand Ambitions
Links:
13. http://b.rw/nXqjkF

Giles Harvey | NYRB | 20 July 2011

Recent Michael Winterbottom film, "The Trip", with Steve Coogan and Rob
Brydon, is a masterpiece worthy of Joyce, or Borges, or Godard, or Beckett.
Even though, "as in a Beckett play, nothing really happens, dramatically
speaking" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/steve-coogan’s-grand-ambitions

[15]Baffled At A Bookcase
Links:
15. http://b.rw/pnWxJl

Alan Bennett | LRB | 20 July 2011

On the joys and privations of public libraries in England—especially
Leeds—in the 1950s. Vintage Alan Bennett, a hymn to the Yorkshire of his
childhood. Written in protest against library cuts under the present British
government [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/baffled-bookcase

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Oscar Hijuelos on Cuba
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/oscar-hijuelos-on-cuba

The best-selling novelist tells us about books that evoke the land of his
parents, from a noirish take on contemporary Havana to the cabaret scene of
pre-Castro Cuba [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/oscar-hijuelos-on-cuba