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PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: As the financial crisis and the economic crisis deepens, working people are asking, "How bad is it…
MICHAEL GOODMAN, REAL NEWS MEMBER: We support The Real News Network because we want to have independent journalism, and in a democracy…
President Chavez managed to hand Human Rights Watch a major public relations victory with his recent expulsion of its America’s Director José…
Europe has showed greater willingness in recent months to play a larger part in the Middle East’s most protracted conflict, that of…
Am I the only American voter who’s getting annoyed by all the faux-populist obeisance and condescending lip-service that’s being paid to “average…
"This extraordinary capacity to finance not on past wealth but on the present value of future anticipated cash flows is at the…
October 3, 2008 — The global economy’s vast financial sector expansion – in the context of productive sector stagnation tendencies – has…
It was encouraging to see, as I was literally sitting at my computer getting ready to start this column, an email from…
I would like to talk about the current crisis. How is it that so many people could see it coming, but the…
I had almost literally just finished reading William Gumede’s acclaimed biography of South African President Thabo Mbeki, Thabo Mbeki and the Battle…
Thirty years ago, unions came closer to strengthening the Wagner Act than at any other time since Congress enacted labor’s “Magna Carta”…
THE SIMULTANEOUS unfolding of the US presidential campaign and unraveling of the financial markets presents one of those occasions where the political…
One should rightly assume that the weight of the US financial crisis, the full impact of which is just beginning to unravel,…
Minutes after the termination of the second of three Presidential debates between Barack Obama and John McCain, Real News Senior Editor Paul…
The Wall Street meltdown is not only due to greed and to the lack of government regulation of a hyperactive sector. It…
The 2008 Canadian election has some of the features of the past few elections. The majority of the population faces the quandary…
Wayne and I agree on the need to address all dimensions of life, though I perhaps regard kinship, culture, and polity more…
Michael Albert is a renowned activist, speaker and writer who was elected President of the MIT student body during the 1960s, and…
President Bush sounded much less uncertain of his peace "vision" when he received Palestinian Authority’s Mahmoud Abbas in Washington on Sept. 25.…
There is a struggle underway in Bolivia which has been largely overlooked or misrepresented in the mainstream circles in the USA. For…
To avoid going in circles, I will try to be brief…except on the matter of self-sufficiency and scale, which seems to concern…
You remain troubled that parecon doesn’t aim for self-sufficiency. But wouldn’t you agree that if in some case we want self-sufficiency,…
The following is offered as basis for an exploration/debate with Wayne Price a member of the the Northeastern Federation of Anarchist-Communists (NEFAC). …
(Caracas 9-24-08) During the past decade, Latin America has become the most exciting region of the world. The dynamic has very largely flowed…
The numbers are grim, whether in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian economy is in one of its most…
The following is a summary statement offered as basis for an exploration/debate with Wayne Price a member of the the Northeastern Federation…
Congress will be voting this week on the biggest give-away of our tax dollars to the financial sector in our nation’s history.…
I was ecstatic as I read an email sent by a manager at a Canadian toy company. The company donates a large…
The tireless members of United Healthcare Workers (UHW) will be on the march again this weekend, in what’s likely to be one…
In early September, 2009 I went to Venezuela to give a talk about economic vision at a conference there. I stayed a…
In early September I went to Venezuela to give a talk about economic vision at a conference there. I stayed a week,…
In early September I went to Venezuela to give a talk about economic vision at a conference there. I stayed a week,…
Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa used exceptionally tough language during a Cairo news conference 9 September, when he lashed out at Palestinian…
Humanity’s Big Task At some point a revolution will transform the U.S. economy, polity, kinship, and culture – and similar revolutions…
Jean Bricmont’s concept “humanitarian imperialism” succinctly captures a dilemma that has faced Western leaders and the Western intellectual community since the collapse…
Bolivia’s popular movements are attempting to use democracy and a legitimate government to advance an agenda of sovereignty, greater equality, and development.…
The Bush administration’s imperial and corporate misadventures over the last decade have proven that the world would be much better off without…
Few would argue that the indirect Israel-Syria talks through Turkish mediation, which were first announced 21 May, were a sign of political…
Aghast at the atrocities committed by US forces invading the Philippines, and the rhetorical flights about liberation and noble intent that routinely…
The series of unfortunate and costly decisions made during the two terms of the Bush administration, combined with economic decline at home,…
Michael Albert, along with Greg Wilpert, is attending a conference in Venezuela this weekend. He will be conducting a series of interviews…
Thousands of SEIU members are expected in San Jose this Saturday, Sept. 6, to protest spreading corruption—and Andy Stern’s latest grab for…
I would have preferred to do some kind of letter to the editor, but it won’t work. The need to react precisely…
To run a full marathon experts suggest that the aspiring athlete requires at least six months of rigorous training, proper gear, a…
Many people who know me know that at some point, in discussing the financial future of movement organizations and institutions I…
Just as the world’s attention was focussed on China’s Beijing Olympics, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, on 7 August, invaded the tiny breakaway…
A New York Times article by Simon Romero on August 15 suggested that the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo…
Yet more haunting images of blindfolded, stripped down Palestinian men being contemptuously dragged by soldiers in uniform from one place to another.…
ISLAMABAD – The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) is a women’s organization that runs underground schools and other projects,…
About six months ago, Dan Pearson, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, swiveled around in his office chair in our tiny “headquarters”…
