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Yesterday, Americans sent two very important and very different communications to our friend Dr. Wee Teck Young, a Singaporean physician and activist…
Reading the article below by Julia Olson made me cry. One of the big memories of my childhood is a one-month vacation…
When the landless peasants of the Carperos Campesino Movement moved on to the 70,000 hectare ranch in Curuguaty registered to Blas Riquelme,…
A surprise Arab drive for freedom, the West's structural crisis and new hope coming from Latin America. That's the modern world in…
All indications are that Dr. Jill Stein will be the U.S. Green Party’s candidate for President when it has a national convention…
Bubble TV sits down with Noam Chomsky after receiving his honorary degree to hear his views on Scottish independence, the global financial…
MONTPELIER, VT.–While the nation waits for an overdue Supreme Court decision that will decide the fate of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act…
On June 14, fifty international organizations marked the fifth anniversary of the Israeli siege on Gaza by calling on Israel to end…
“To address the huge threat posed by global warming, I believe it is essential to move as quickly as possible away from…
Tuesday, June 5, was a bad day for public workers from the west coast to the mid-west. Voters in San Diego and…
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The Occupy movement in the United States is part of a global upsurge that began in Tunisia in December, 2010 and then…
On June 3, Palestinian national soccer team member Mahmoud Sarsak completed 80 days of a grueling hunger-strike. He had sustained the strike…
Occupy this and that – by which I mean the Occupy Movement writ large – is still, even after some depletion in…
In his penetrating study “Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-Opted Human Rights,” international affairs scholar James Peck observes, “In the history…
Venezuela: The Revolution Continues by Peter Bohmer, June 1, 2012 I spent 10 weeks in Venezuela in early 2012, two months…
Noam, over the years you have seen all kinds of projects come and go. Recently you became a member of the new…
On May 29, The New York Times published an extraordinarily in-depth look at the intimate role President Obama has played in authorizing US drone attacks overseas,…
On 30 May, Britain's Supreme Court turned down the final appeal of Julian Assange against his extradition to Sweden. In an unprecedented…
The Hart House Debates Committee, Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation (NECEF), and Science for Peace present The State-Corporate Complex: A Threat…
One of South Africa’s largest tertiary institutions, the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in Durban, is a site of multiple controversy but a…
The age of revolutionary romance is over. Various Arab countries are now facing hard truths. Millions of Arabs merely want to live…
Several days ago a document, the "GlobalMay Statement," showed up in my email inbox. In the website where this statement can be…
Many Palestinians remember and reference al-Nakba, also known as the Catastrophe, on May 15 every year. The event marks the expulsion of…
The freer flow of commodities and capital has been one of the features of the contemporary process of globalization. Unlike in the…
Israel is currently experiencing the kind of turmoil that may or may not affect its political hierarchy following the next general election.…
In this presidential election year, millions of voters find themselves caught, once again, between a Republican rock and a Democratic hard place.…
The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think…
For the first time in two decades, voters north of the Golden Gate will choose a new member of Congress. Given the…
Chomsky praises the developments in Latin America over the past decade, and places them in a larger context of Latin American history.
Though sidelined by the Secret Service scandal, last month’s Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, was an event of considerable significance.…
Once again Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir waved his walking stick in the air. Once again he spoke of splendid victories over his…
Laura Flanders talks with MIT professor and author Noam Chomsky, to discuss his latest publication, OCCUPY, OWS, anarchism, racism, corporate power and…
As I walked around Union Square in NYC yesterday between 4 and 5:30, waiting for the march down Broadway to begin, memories of occupied Zuccotti Park came…
Counterterrorism adviser John Brennan spoke at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington DC on April 30 to mark the one-year anniversary…
Did India just launch a new ballistic missile? A launch, by the way, which received very little international attention and concern and…
“Part of the challenge over these past three years has been that people's number-one priority is finding a job and paying the…
Bisasar Road is Africa’s largest landfill site, and one of only three landfill sites in Durban with a full permit. It was…
I was recently asked to participate on a panel regarding the Left and electoral politics. I declined. For many people this may…
Last year, the Occupy Movement rose up spontaneously in cities and towns across the country, radically shifted the discourse and rattled the…
DJ Buschini: A good deal of committed organization helped lay the groundwork for the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. For years, activists in…
Norman Solomon, a longtime activist and media scholar, first came under FBI scrutiny at the age of 14 for picketing a segregated…
We are very excited to share our first interview in the There Is An Alternative series, in which we will be speaking with…
Patrick Bond is the Director of the Center for Civil Society and Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Bond is…
When the history of mid-western de-unionization is written, its sad chroniclers will begin their story in Indiana. That is where Governor Mitch…
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Recently an essay criticizing participatory economics was brought to my attention, via IOPS. "A workers' critique of parecon" appears on the site…
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I read with great interest Peter Beinart’s recent New York Times op-ed “To Save Israel, Boycott the Settlements.” His thesis is straightforward: Beinart…
In coming days, the World Bank will have a new president. Smart money backs Barack Obama’s choice: Dartmouth College president Jim Yong…
