Athens on May Day and May 6th 2010 via athens.indymedia and After the Greek Riots

Outside the Dream: Child Poverty in America
A series by Stephen Shames

Wang Hui
wikipedia

Professor of Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Executive editor (with Huang Ping) of the influential magazine Dushu (读书, Reading) from May 1996 to July 2007.
The US magazine Foreign Policy named him as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in May 2008.

Wang Hui was born in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, [...]

A map of the April 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and breakdown of affected wildlife. Updated April 29.
From The New York TImes

An infographic about arms sales.  America share was about 65% of the 55.5 billion dollar arms trade in 2008, which about 36 billion dollars.  Both a general trend upwards of America’s share and the total volume overall of the arms trade seem related.
The graphic allows breaks down the biggest purchasers (Saudi Arabia and India are [...]

All the little flowers. – The sentence, most likely from Jean-Paul, that memories are the only property which cannot be taken from us, belongs in the storehouse of a powerlessly sentimental consolation, which would like to think that the self-renouncing withdrawal of the subject into interiority is precisely the fulfillment, from which the consolation turns [...]

from wikipedia
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology is one of a series of pamphlets published by Prickly Paradigm Press in Chicago. With the essay, anthropologist David Graeber attempts to outline areas of research that intellectuals might explore in creating a body of anarchist social theory.
Graeber posits that Anthropology is “particularly well-positioned” as an academic community that [...]

To study everyday life would be a completely absurd undertaking, unable even to grasp anything of its object, if this study was not expressly for the purpose of transforming everyday life.
The practice of lecturing (the exposition of certain intellectual considerations to an audience), being an extremely commonplace form of human relations in a rather large [...]

Good. Now I can begin to suck. Watch me closely. I take a stone from the right pocket of my greatcoat, suck it, stop sucking it, put itin the left pocket of my greatcoat, the one empty (of stones). I takea second stone from the right pocket of my greatcoat, suck it put itin the [...]

They say all the best tarts are fat-arsed. Gee-ee, I really like busty tarts, I love the way they smell.
Having said this, he started to increase in height and, upon reaching the ceiling, he crumbled into a thousand little pellets.
How a Man Crumbled by Daniil Kharms
From Short Stories by Daniil Kharms

I give all this background information because I do not think one can assess a writer’s motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in—at least this is true in tumultuous, revolutionary ages like our own—but before he ever begins to write he will [...]

What tormented Ivan Ilych most was the deception, the lie, which for some reason they all accepted, that he was not dying but was simply ill, and the only need keep quiet and undergo a treatment and then something very good would result. He however knew that do what they would nothing would come of [...]