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Most six-year-olds like to have a big birthday bash, with lots of games, presents, balloons, sugary cake, and as much noise as…
How do we develop a genuine movement for Climate Justice in the U.S.? Nearly everyone agrees that community-based environmental justice groups – mainly…
I haven’t felt like this since Seattle and the birth of the global justice movement in the USA 12 years ago. Because of the Occupy Wall Street action and…
I am in a room in Dublin Ireland, using a thready connection, typing on a glass screen too small for my fingers,…
Text of a speech delivered to a CNT Sponsored gathering in Barcelona, Spain. Thank you for having me. It is a…
There are at least 595,000 Haitians living in camps around Port au Prince (1). President Martelly has a program, called 16-6, which…
Leftists don't spend enough time or energy working on important strategic questions. If we could resolve a handful of these, even tentatively,…
Text of a speech delivered at the Rebellious Media Conference, this weekend in London. Good media must be free from internal organizational…
Patrick Elie is a Haitian activist who worked in the first Aristide administration. I interviewed him in Port au Prince on October…
The centerpiece of Haitian President Martelly's policies so far is his scholarship program. It is an ambitious plan to provide free education…
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The killing of Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen on Friday by a U.S. drone has elicited cheers from most mainstream politicians and pundits.…
The Occupy Wall Street campaign, now in its third week, has inspired a wide range of commentaries, as well as like-minded events all across…
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This interview was conducted by email in preparation for a trip to Spain by Michael Albert. CNT is Spain's Anarchist Labor Federation…
This week marks the beginning of what is supposed to be the final 100 days of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. But…
With the tenth anniversary of the crime that was 9/11, the question inevitably crops up: who won, the United States or al-Qaeda?…
AT THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM, Greece, a weak, peripheral nation in the European economy, was still licking its wounds from…
Looking for a bookshop that was no longer there, I walked instead into a labyrinth designed as a trap. Leaving became an…
Michael, about twenty years ago, you and Robin Hahnel developed participatory economics, or Parecon, as an alternative to capitalism and centrally planned…
AMY GOODMAN: We turn to part two of our conversation with MIT professor, world-renowned political dissident, linguist, author, Noam Chomsky. I was joined in this interview by Democracy…
(10 years ago today as I write the US was attacked by Al Qaeda. I consider it appropriate to write this column today about…
AMY GOODMAN: As we continue to mark the decade since the September 11th attacks in the United States, today we spend the hour with MIT professor,…
Gregory Wilpert: What is the situation of the US left progressive forces, that is, left of the Democratic Party? Michael Albert: I…
Since we often cannot see what is happening before our eyes, it is perhaps not too surprising that what is at a…
This month marks the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the world.…
At a press conference in Tripoli on Aug. 26, a statement read aloud by top Libyan rebel commander Abdel Hakim Belhadj was…
Former Vice President Dick Cheney was given a multi-million contract to write a book about his political career. According to Cheney’s media…
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In the 2011 summer issue of the journal of the American Academy of Political Science, we read that it is “a common…
I remember how exhilarated I felt when I was told I was old enough to fast for the month of Ramadan. My…
The striking unions at Verizon made it clear from the beginning that they might return to work without a settlement if they…
Michael Albert, thank you so much for your time and for taking our questions. It is my pleasure and I thank you…
As the ‘Arab Spring’ continues to challenge dictators, demolish old structures and ponder roadmaps for a better future, the US remains committed…
The 15-day-campaign at the White House to stop the Keystone XL pipeline has begun, and thanks to the U.S. Park Police, it’s…
On a warm spring day, strolling in south London, I heard demanding voices behind me. A police van disgorged a posse of…
Events in Libya and Syria have again brought to the forefront the question of armed humanitarian intervention or the “responsibility to protect.”…
It’s a bit odd to me that with my sense of geographical direction I’m ever regarded as a leader to guide groups…
Ha-Joon Chang is a development economist with a special interest in economic history. His most recent book, “23 Things They Don't Tell…
Since Saturday night (August 6), 45,000 members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)…
The real surprise about riots from London to Birmingham and Manchester, is not that London is burning, but that Paris, New York,…
“It is a common theme” that the United States, which “only a few years ago was hailed to stride the world as…
There’s no way around it: to solve the worsening climate crisis requires we must accept both that the vast majority of fossil…
The culture of “no contract, no work” is almost extinct in the United States, where strike activity has reached an all-time low. Among…
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“Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer lies what I call the Tropic of Chaos, a belt of economically…
When President Ali Abdullah Saleh tried desperately to quell Yemen’s popular uprising, he appealed to tribalism, customs and traditions. All his efforts…
In the sixties we had a slogan: "You are either part of the problem or part of the solution." Our slogans didn't…
