Kari Polanyi Levitt 100th Birthday on June 14, 2023. From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization: On Karl Polanyi and Other Essays

First published on August 20, 2013 

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From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization:

On Karl Polanyi and Other Essays

A new book by Kari Levitt, with Afterword by Samir Amin

 

From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization

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Pundits Keep Predicting China’s Imminent Collapse — and Keep Getting It Wrong

Frank Dikötter is the best-selling English-language popular historian of China, known in particular for his “People’s History of China” trilogy: Mao’s Great Famine (2010), The Tragedy of Liberation (2013), and The Cultural Revolution (2016). The three books are detailed, deeply ideological histories of particular periods under Mao after the 1949 revolution, in which Dikötter set […]

WATCH: Israeli soccer star becomes first Jew to play in Arab country – but is listed as Romanian

Israeli soccer star Omer Atzili, who signed a three-year contract with a team in the UAE on Wednesday, was listed as Romanian on the team’s official website.

Born and raised in Israel, the 29-year-old, who is the first Israeli Jews to play for an Arab country, obtained a Romanian passport in 2015.

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All-Muslim city council bans pride flag

The ban is another example of the increasingly vocal opposition of religious Muslims in the United States to LGBTQ ideology.

By Thomas McKenna, The Washington Free Beacon

A Michigan city with an all-Muslim city council on Tuesday banned LGBTQ Pride flags and other “religious, ethnic, racial, political, or sexual orientation group flags” from flying on public property.

After more than three hours of intense public comment, the Hamtramck city council unanimously passed a resolution ruling only the American flag, the Michigan state flag, the Hamtramck flag, the Prisoner of War flag, and “the nation’s flags that represent the international character of our City” shall be flown.” About half of Hamtramck residents are Muslim, according to the Detroit Free Press, and 25 percent of the city is of Arab descent.

The ban is another example of the increasingly vocal opposition of religious Muslims in the United States to LGBTQ ideology. Earlier this month, Muslim and Christian parents in Montgomery County, Md., gathered outside the county’s public school headquarters to protest the end of a parental choice to opt out their children from reading books with LGBTQ content in school. A Democratic council member in the county drew criticism for saying at a school board meeting “some Muslim families [are] on the same side of an issue as white supremacists and outright bigots.”

In Dearborn, Mich, a city with a 42 percent Arab population, hundreds of Muslim and Christian parents spoke at an October school board meeting, calling for the removal of sexually explicit books from the school library.

Some GOP strategists see an opportunity to gain ground with Muslims on social issues. In 2018, Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer (D.) won the south end of Dearborn with 93 percent of the vote. In 2022, she barely carried the area with only 53 percent, while Tudor Dixon, her Republican opponent, grabbed 46 percent.

During the public comment period in Hamtramck Tuesday night, two women kissed at the podium in protest of the resolution.

“You guys are welcome,” council member Nayeem Choudhury said. “[But] why do you have to have the flag shown on government property to be represented? You’re already represented. We already know who you are.”

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WATCH: Gun fight as IDF razes home of terrorist who killed soldier

IDF forces carried out a house demolition in the city of Shechem (Nablus) overnight between Wednesday and Thursday, destroying the home of Osama Tawil, one of the terrorists who killed IDF soldier Ido Baruch in a shooting attack last October.

Palestinian gunmen opened fire at IDF forces while other locals hurled explosives and Molotov cocktails. One terrorist was killed in the exchange.

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Khamenei: Judea and Samaria terror groups will bring Israel ‘to its knees

“The strength and credibility of the Palestinian resistance groups and Islamic Jihad is increasing day by day, and the recent defeat of the Zionist regime in the 5-day war confirms this.”

By World Israel News Staff

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Wednesday declared that Palestinian towns in Judea and Samaria constitute a “major battleground” for terror groups fighting Israel.

“The growing power of the resistance groups in [Judea and Samaria] is the key to bringing the Zionist enemy to its knees, and this path must continue,” he said during a meeting with Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror chief, Ziyad al-Nakhalah, in Tehran.

Gaza-based, Iran-backed terror groups, including Hamas and PIJ, have sought to expand their influence in Judea and Samaria.

Multiple polls have shown that were elections to be held today, Hamas would overthrow the Palestinian Authority and the ruling Fatah faction from power.

Khamenei praised the PIJ, stating that “The enemy’s (Israel) passivity and inaction shows that the resistance factions have identified the right path.”

He also congratulated the terror group on “its recent victory over Israel,” according to the regime-affiliated Tehran Times.

“Today, by God’s grace, the strength and credibility of the Palestinian resistance groups and Islamic Jihad is increasing day by day, and the recent defeat of the Zionist regime in the 5-day war confirms this.”

He continued, “The Islamic Jihad of Palestine aced the test in the recent battle of Gaza, and now the conditions for the Zionist regime have changed compared to seventy years ago, and the Zionist leaders have the right to worry about not seeing the eightieth anniversary of this regime.”

In August last year, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi met in Tehran with Nakhalah.

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