Archive of Lewis Bassett
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Conscientious Objector Day - Joe Glenton speaks out
Today is International Conscientious Objector Day and Joe Glenton, Author of Solider box, appears in the Metro discussing what this means.'It's not like you make a choice to be a conscientious objector,' he said. 'It's something that develops over time and goes against the grain of your being.'
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Fuelling geopolitics: The oil saga on Al Jazeera's Empire with Timothy Mitchell
Al Jazeera concludes their four part series on the geo-politics of resource use with a discussion between experts in this field including author of Carbon Democracy, Timothy Mitchell.
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Why It’s Still Kicking Off Everywhere
Two days before International Workers Day and Paul Mason, BBC Journalist and author of Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere, asserts a global revoultion is taking place.
Read the article in full here."Two years on from the Arab Spring, I’m clearer about what it was that it inaugurated: it is a revolution. In some ways it parallels the revolutions of before – 1848, 1830, 1789 – and there are also echoes of the Prague spring, the US civil rights movement, the Russian ‘mad summer of 1874’ … but in other ways it is unique. Above all, the relationship between the physical and the mental, the political and the cultural, seems to be inverted. There is a change in consciousness, the intuition that something big is possible, that a great change in the world’s priorities is within people’s grasp."
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The Power of Oil - BBC R4 Podcast with James Marriott and Timothy Mitchell
"If you go out onto the street and you look at the exhaust fumes coming out of car" James Marriott, author of The Oil Road, says on this radio show, "because of just in time delivery one can be fairly clear about how long it's going to take to get from five kilometres under the Caspian Sea to that car's combustion chamber; and it's round about twenty two days." -
Win the entire World History series plus Altai and Žižek tote bags!
To celebrate new additions to Verso's handsome World History series we are giving away all twelve titles plus run up prizes of Altai, Wu Ming's sequel to their debut novel Q.
