politics for the 99%

• Audio: Christopher Hitchens interviews Eric Hobsbawm, 66.54 min, uploaded by hitch archive, Nov 25, 2013;
• The Late Show – Special Eric Hobsbawm: Age of Extremes, 38.13 min, uploaded by se146np, Nov 11, 2012;
• Eric Hobsbawm on Gramsci’s Marxism (1987) 1/7, 9.58 min, uploaded by Bigmartinno1, April 19, 2009: … with 2/7 to 7/7 in autoplay;  

Eric (John Ernest) Hobsbawm:

• His obituary on The Guardian, by Martin Kettle and Dorothy Wedderburn, Oct 1, 2012;
• on en.wikipedia (9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012) was a British Marxist historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism, and nationalism …;
• on YouTube-search.

Links:

Currency turmoil signals new phase of global economic crisis, on WSWS, by Nick Beams, Feb 1, 2014;

Century of Violence: What World War I Did to the Middle East, on Spiegel Online International, by Bernhard Zand, January 31, 2014 (14 Photos in the Gallery): World War I may have ended in 1918, but the violence it triggered in the Middle East still hasn’t come to an end. Arbitrary borders drawn by self-interested imperial powers have left a legacy that the region has not been able to overcome …;

Tanzania becoming the new Chinese province in Africa, on Pambazuka News, by Daniel Mbega, Jan 29, 2014: Tanzania’s strong relations with China go back to the era of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere and Mao Tse Tung. The Chinese ‘Dragon’ is now set to invest billions of dollars in the iron and coal mining sectors of the country that will last for more than a century …;