The Human Life Exchange Rate Mechanism

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Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021

In our neoliberal societies, elites like to quantify the worth of human lives in various ways. A telling example is per capita GDP (Gross Domestic Product) that determines the economic contribution each citizen makes to a nation.

Call of Duterte

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Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020

“One hates to see Los Angeles go up in flames unless one’s got a camera running,” joked the British anarchist comedian Peter Cook after the 1992 LA riots. A variation on this idea applies to Western state-corporate media, which seldom …

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