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It is ironic, way beyond ironic really, that the Nation’s Capital—and the entire Northeast– is staring down the barrel of an incredibly…
In the week when President Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney debated issues of foreign policy and the economy, we turn…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has reinitiated a dialogue with the FARC. Talks began in Oslo and will continue in Havana. The…
“Should we fail to act now on the climate front, the world will likely become so nasty and brutish that the possibility…
Noam Chomsky explains how public opinion and political policy differ and why often undecided voters vote for policies that are opposite public…
Michael Albert is visiting England next week to promote IOPS (International Organisation for a Participatory Society). Duvinrouge asked him some questions. duvinrouge – Michael, you…
The Electronic Intifada’s Rami Almeghari sat down with Chomsky in Gaza City to talk about his views on the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, the Palestinian…
Peter Hallward: I’d like to start by asking you about some of your basic philosophical principles, starting with your understanding of human…
The world will soon enter the sixth year of the Great Recession, and there is no end in sight. In the United…
When a ruling party in any African country sinks to the depths of allowing its police force to serve white-dominated multinational…
US elections are manifestly linked to the Middle East, at least rhetorically. In practical terms, however, US foreign policies in the region…
Whether or not progressives should support Obama in 2012 is not only a matter of whether Obama would be better as president…
On Sunday October 28, Michael Albert will be participating at an IOPS Welcome Event to introduce the interim International Organization for a Participatory Society…
The world stood still 50 years ago during the last week of October, from the moment when it learned that the Soviet…
Gregory Wilpert a German-American sociologist who earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Brandeis University in 1994. Between 2000 and 2008 he lived…
Four years ago, when Barack Obama was running against John McCain for the Presidency and when the climate crisis was not as…
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Talk at the Event, Celebrating the One Year Anniversary of the Occupy Movement, and Against the Continuing U.S. War Against Afghanistan; Localization…
In a rather unusual left publishing event, Michael Albert, Mandisi Majavu, Mark Evans, Jessica Azulay, and David Marty have simultaneously released three books that…
Talk at the Event, Celebrating the One Year Anniversary of the Occupy Movement, and Against the Continuing U.S. War Against Afghanistan; Localization…
In the northwest corner of Africa, an on-going conflict against an occupation could be entering a new stage. The Western Sahara, known…
With the quadrennial presidential election extravaganza reaching its peak, it’s useful to ask how the political campaigns are dealing with the most…
Address to the Muslim Youth Movement 40th Anniversary Conference, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, September 30, 2012. At a time when popular…
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Michael Albert is co-founder of Z Magazine, ZNet and South End Press, and a founder member of IOPS – the international organization for a…
A neighbor of mine, of many years ago from a Gaza refugee camp, was a sacrilegious person par excellence. Unemployed like most…
Noam Chomsky’s latest books are Occupy (Zuccotti Park Press) and Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance (City Lights Publishers). RICARDO LEZAMA: Have you heard…
“This is no winter now. The frozen misery Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move; The thunder is the thunder of the…
Almost 18 months after the onset of popular democratic protests, the Syrian revolution increasingly resembles a bloody marathon with no clear finish…
Recent demonstrations in protest of the rising cost of living have swept across the West Bank. While they are not indicative of…
The following is an excerpt from Volume One ofĀ Fanfare for the Future, titledĀ Occupy TheoryĀ andĀ authored by Michael Albert of the U.S. and Mandisi…
Talk on Grand Jury Repression! September 7th, 2012 at Traditions Café, Olympia, WA by Peter Bohmer We are living in…
What is the world’s most powerful and violent “ism”? The question will summon the usual demons, such as Islamism, now that communism…
Factcheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, often plays a useful role in exposing lies by…
It is not easy to escape from one’s skin, to see the world differently from the way it is presented to us…
“Stop fighting,” suggests Farzana, a brave 22 year old Afghan stage actress. Significantly, her statement is in sharp contrast to what seems…
A traditional code for community organizers has been to connect with others through values, rather than policies. The latter is often polarizing,…
Upwards of 2,000 people attended the Don’t Frack New York demonstration yesterday, Monday, August 27 in Albany, N.Y. That’s a lot of…
There was once a young man from a very small Italian town called Bulciago who wished to change the world. As soon…
(a version of this article first appeared on Waging Nonviolence) Anne Montgomery died yesterday. I remember her words to me and…
In an interview with Noam Chomsky–noted activist, linguist, and philosopher–Democracy Now! asked the professor about his views on the positions of the…
In the wake of last year's long overdue U.S. troop withdrawal, mainstream media coverage of Iraq has dwindled to near zero —…
One sign, among many, of labor's current travails is the stalled union growth strategy known as "Bargain to Organize." More than a…
The U.S. intellectual Noam Chomsky does not discard the possibility that the U.K. could venture in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to…
It’s puzzling that there is almost no discussion among progressives about the U.S.’s completely unique way of choosing its top political leader and…
This past month was the hottest July in the United States ever recorded. In India, the monsoon rains are long delayed, resulting…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, author of No FEAR: A Whistleblower's Triumph over Corruption and Retaliation at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) interviews Professor…
In the 1970s, when thousands of recently radicalized Sixties’ activists “colonized” industrial workplaces under the direction of various left-wing groups, there was…
Zimbabwe’s political-economic crisis continues because dislodging decades of malgovernance has not been achieved by either a Government of National Unity that began…
Here is a simple, reachable step towards peace in Afghanistan: build international relationships by befriending the Afghan Peace Volunteers Ali and Abdulhai…
