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Trailer for Michael Albert's Parecon lecture at Birmingham University, 26 October 2010. Video of full lecture available HERE
In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant satire on the press, there is the moment when Lord Copper, owner of the Daily Beast, meets…
I saw that you were quoted as saying "education is ignorance" — Well, that's what it often is in practice. It shouldn't…
There may be another election campaign in 2011 with as much movement-building potential as the Cheri Honkala for Sheriff campaign in Philadelphia,…
Loisaida, by Dan Chodorkoff Burlington: Fomite Press, 2011, 338 pp. http://www.fomitepress.com/FOMITE/Loisaida.html In the 1980s, the fabled Lower East Side of Manhattan…
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Instead of high-fiving each other for their success in thwarting the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Israeli officials should be throwing overboard the propaganda…
AddressingĀ previously assembled anarchist concernsĀ about participatory economics turned out to require too much space for one essay so I broke it into four…
How does political censorship work in liberal societies? When my film, 'Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia', was banned in the…
The Guardian publishes a transcript of its interview with Noam Chomsky about Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, and the Afiuni affair We reported…
Addressing previously assembled anarchist concerns about participatory economics turned out to require too much space for one essay so I broke it into…
Behind every good man, one finds a good woman, or so we’re told. In this year’s contest for the Teamster presidency, that…
"China is today the ideal capitalist state: freedom for capital, with the state doing the 'dirty job' of controlling the workers," writes…
Addressing previously assembled anarchist concerns about participatory economics turned out to require too much space for one essay so I broke it…
AddressingĀ previously assembled anarchist concernsĀ about participatory economics turned out to require too much space for one essay so I broke it into five…
You need to install or upgrade Flash Player to view this content, install or upgrade by clicking here. Talk on June 7,…
Most contenders for top union office are eager to relocate to our nation’s capital, where many labor organizations still maintain large buildings…
Last week, newly-arrived in Athens as part of the US Boat to Gaza project, our team of activists gathered for nonviolence training.…
Beyond the Crisis: Markets, Planning, and a Utopian Vision Inspired by the American National Football League http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/varoufakis220611.html Mr Zine Yanis Varoufakis The…
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Noam Chomsky is one of the major intellectuals of our time. The eighty-two-year-old American linguist, philosopher and activist is a severe critic…
A “Hamas commander” drove a beat-up gray van in northern Gaza and theatrically spoke on his walkie-talkie as I sat in the…
In late June 2011, I’m going to be a passenger on “The Audacity of Hope,” the U.S. boat in this summer’s international…
Michael Lerner (ML): You have made many excellent analyses of the power of global capital and its capacity to undermine ordinary citizens’…
An earlier open letter from John Pilger published a few days ago recounted cancellation of events he and others were scheduled for.…
"There will come a time, I know, when people will take delight in one another, when each will be a star to…
If you listen to right wing commentators, you might think American progressives are leading the charge to protect our planet from climate…
The dogma on which Margaret Thacher introduced neoliberalism – that is: “there is no alternative”- has been very popular among world leaders,…
ZCom received the following open letter from John Pilger reporting very disturbing events in progress. We thought it important to make public…
Thank you all for coming to the 12th annual award of the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. Some would say there are…
“Do you remember Mahmoud?” asked Abu Nidal, my neighbor from nearly 20 years ago, when I lived in Gaza. “Yes, of course,…
"I went in thinking that I was sacrificing my freedom by taking such an action. This is not really the case. The…
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After the assassination of bin Laden I received such a deluge of requests for comment that I was unable to respond individually,…
In the context of the criticisms that many of us have of the Obama administration for what it has not accomplished, for…
Nader al-Masri is an inspiration. The 31-year-old Gaza athlete seems completely oblivious to challenges that would seem insurmountable to most. On May…
The illegal eavesdropping on famous people by the News of the World is said to be Rupert Murdoch’s Watergate. But is it…
On May 4, 2011, CNN World News asked whether killing Osama bin Laden was legal under international law. [http://articles.cnn.com/2011-05-04/world/bin.laden.legal_1_al-qaeda-leader-bin-cia-director-leon-panetta?_s=PM:WORLD] Other news commentary…
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It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law. There appears to have been…
I’LL BEGIN with an interesting debate that took place some years ago between Carl Sagan, the well-known astrophysicist, and Ernst Mayr, the…
In most of the world, May Day is an international workers' holiday, bound up with the bitter 19th-century struggle of American workers…
Osama bin Laden is no martyr. He is certainly no Che Guevara, whose fate at the hands of the Central Intelligence Agency…
The facts all point to this “inconvenient truth” — the time has come to shut down California’s two nuclear power plants as…
COINTELPRO 101, produced by Freedom Archives. Available to order through: https://co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/default.aspx?wid=33028 I read The Autobiography of Malcolm X when I was 13…
Looking at the UK, US & Europe, to what extent are our societies free and democratic? These Societies are quite free by…
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is not alone in bashing public employees these days. In the view of his fellow GOP governor, Mitch…
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“Dear Mary,” wrote Italian justice activist Vittorio Arrigoni to a friend. “Do you (know who) will be on the boats?… I’m still…
