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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…
When is the last time you heard from a civilian victim of the CIA’s secret drone strikes? Sure, most of them can’t…
Chomsky discusses freedom of speech, its history, and how to deal with the rise of racist right-wing movements. The interview was conducted…
Public education is under attack around the world, and in response, student protests have recently been held in Britain, Canada, Chile, Taiwan…
Promise-breaking at the World Bank, Part 1: Before That 66th birthday month of his, March 2012, was auspicious for adding a little…
On Friday, March 30, First Lady Michelle Obama received an unusual request at her San Francisco fundraiser. Instead of “Can I have…
Do Pretoria and Johannesburg deserve the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah, cities along the ancient Jordan River which were, according to The Book…
Milan Kundera’s truism, “the struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”, described East Timor. The day before…
Editor's Commentary: We published the full length, revolutionary film documentary by John Pilger, The War You Don't See in 2010 and 2011 when it appeared on…
This week saw the online launch of a new international organisation for radical social transformation, the International Organisation for a Participatory Society (IOPS). Two…
Two headlines in USA Today and Reuters earlier this week were very sobering: “Study: Global temperatures could rise 5 degrees by 2050,”…
Chomsky reviews the Resistance/Collaboration in Western and Southern Europe, pointing out the huge differences and the consequences for the decades that followed.…
The sound of what seems like thunder wakes me up at 3 am, Monday, a few hours after I arrived in Damascus.…
The world is as it is. If we arrive at a shared vision for a better future, that too will be what…
‘I don’t have the stomach or the taste to serve any more at this level,’ said the normally ebullient Minister of Intelligence…
Imagine a better future. In your country of the future the economy is classless and promotes solidarity, diversity, equity, and self management.…
Based on a talk by Jeremy Brecher to Occupy University, Zuccotti Park. Last December, Occupy Los Angeles proposed a General Strike…
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BOSTON–From Jersey Shore to the short-lived All American Muslim to the much glitzier Shahs of Sunset, there seems to be no ethnic community left untouched by the…
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The Afghans are a proud people with a long and formidable history of resistance to foreign occupation. The fact that they have…
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It is difficult to watch the spectacle of the Republican primaries and not agree with whoever it was that originated the description…
Tim Schwartz is an anthropologist with extensive experience in the foreign aid sector in Haiti. He is the author of the book,…
Is the National Treasury, as a CityPress editorial claimed on 26 February, truly a “powerhouse of big brains and safe hands”, “a…
The first Israel missile sped down to its target, scorching the Gaza earth and everything in between. Palestinians collected the body parts…
These are tough times to be a construction worker in America. While other sectors of the economy are showing signs of life,…
“Stripping Protestors In Pink Bras Crashed Bank Of America CEO Brian Moynihan's Speech,” declared Business Insider on March 8, showing Moynihan’s stern photo with a pink…
Dada Maheshvarananda: The viral growth of the Occupy Movement, and the public support of it, is testament to the tremendous dissatisfaction with the…
This essay is an afterward in the book The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics, a collection of anarchist essays edited by…
In 1963, a senior Australian government official, A.R. Taysom, deliberated on the wisdom of deploying women as trade representatives. “Such an appointee…
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The January/February issue of Foreign Affairs featured the article “Time to Attack Iran: Why a Strike Is the Least Bad Option,” by Matthew Kroenig,…
Fazillah, age 25, lives in Maidan Shar, the central city of Afghanistan’s Wardak province. She married about six years ago, and gave…
