Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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Yes, we can
At a time when supposed “progress’ is controlled by transnational corporations, the struggle for human emancipation requires perseverance and transnational political organization to be able to control the corporations that seek to control us.
Susan George,
Transnational Institute, 2 June 2008
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A green army
When Al Gore called for a ‘green army’ recently, chances are he wasn’t envisioning this. Natural resources, including timber, diamonds and wildlife, are increasingly responsible for fuelling violence and facilitating armed conflicts across the world.
Andrew Wasley,
Ecologist, 1 June 2008
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Voodoo Economics and the Doomed Nuclear Renaissance
The economics of new nuclear power stations for the UK do not add up. It is not possible to achieve what the Government says it will do – build a new generation of nuclear stations in England without public subsidy.
Paul Brown, Friends of the Earth, 1 June 2008
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Representing Autism
From concerns of an 'autism epidemic' to the MMR vaccine crisis, autism is a source of peculiar fascination in the contemporary media. Discussion of the condition has been largely framed within medicine, psychiatry and education but there has been no exploration of its power within representative narrative forms.
Stuart Murray, Liverpool University Press,
30 May 2008
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Q&A: GM crops
What are genetically modified crops, and should we be concerned about them?
David Adam,
Guardian, 23 May 2008
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Laser heats up the fusion future
The world's most powerful laser has heated matter to a truly sweltering 10 million Celsius.
Jonathan Fildes,
BBC News, 19 May 2008
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Care or concern?
Just how safe is alternative medicine? In the second extract from their book, Professor Edzard Ernst and scientist Simon Singh explain how ‘natural’ doesn’t necessarily mean ‘safer’
Edzard Ernst and Simon Singh,
Calcutta Telegraph, 5 May 2008
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Three cheers for China’s economic miracle
Development in China has lifted tens of millions of people out of poverty, and in the past decade alone Shanghai has built more skyscrapers than already exist in New York. Listen carefully:
this is a good thing.
Austin Williams,
spiked, 2 May 2008
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The Enemies of Progress: Dangers of Sustainability
This polemical book examines the concept of sustainability and presents a critical exploration of its all-pervasive influence on society, arguing that sustainability, manifested in several guises, represents a pernicious and corrosive doctrine that has survived primarily because there seems to be no alternative to its canon: in effect, its bi-partisan appeal has depressed critical engagement and neutered politics.
Austin Williams, Imprint Academic,
1 May 2008
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