An in-depth interview on participatory economics

How do you know when a campaign you are waging is having an impact? When the target of your campaign cancels a regularly scheduled meeting because you are openly organizing to bring a large number of people to it

Activism is present all over the world, in some places it is even knocking on the future’s door

Despite the limited margins of freedom in Palestine, Birzeit roared once more, reflecting a larger trend of courage and fearlessness that began in Gaza, but is echoing in every corner of the West Bank

Discussion on how scientific research at MIT has been affected for the past 50+ years by its relationship with outside funding agencies, in particular the US military

At the ripe old age of 73, Bernie Sanders has decided to rise to the urgency and seriousness of the times by running for President

Interview on the current media landscape

Australia, a nation without enemies, is now spending $28billion a year on the military and war and armaments in order to fulfill a tragic, entirely colonial and obsequious role, now as Washington’s “deputy sheriff” in the Asia-Pacific.

These efforts need to be brought together as part of the building of a broad united front for justice and power, a movement that in addition to protesting atrocities is guided by a sense of hope and a vision of a new day

Generating collective views about aims and methods and embodying the shared commitments in lasting organizations is what can turn riots into sustained resistance and more

Wishful thinking alone will hardly revive the socialist tide in the Arab world

Egypt’s increasingly totalitarian dictatorship is not described that way by the countries that do business with it, even if countries have citizens who have suffered at its hands

Will the current generation of PAP leaders have the courage to bring about what many of them already realize as the key to the renewal of Singapore: the genuine democratization of politics?

AFL-CIO Delays CA. Hospital Vote

Political symbols in South Africa are here today, gone tomorrow, but oppressive political economy endures

Interview on the alternative media, activism and a host of other related issues

“Utopian socialism” can be more scientific than so called “scientific socialism” and that the utopian socialist methodology should be used to inform revolutionary thinking and action in the 21st Century

Beijing is only too happy to offer an alternative to Western-dominated international finance. What’s more surprising is that leading Western economies are signing up

What steps are needed to produce a viable, mutually agreed reform agenda?

While continuing to assist private and public sector workers involved in strikes and contract fights, the Vermont Workers Center plans to do more grassroots organizing around the shortcomings of Vermont Health Connect coverage

We should never lose hope that we can bring about positive change, but actually changing the world for the better requires being aware that whoever sits in the White House come January 2017 is not going to be our friend

Did we lie? Were we lied to? It is more like we were duped into pseudo-reality crafted so proficiently by Israel, and we are finding it extremely difficult to break away from its confines

The creditors are reportedly pressuring the country to restructure its labor market and curtail its pension system; Syriza has instead done the opposite by increasing pension payments to lower-wage workers

America’s media machine has been spreading its own form of propaganda throughout the world, while at the same time refusing to acknowledge its own culpability in international conflicts

Our wealth redistribution was the second worst of major countries after Brazil, and now is much, much, much worse, is the worst major country in the world

Could US hegemony be coming to an end?

How One San Francisco Neighborhood Kept The Forces of Gentrification At Bay

The so-called American Dream and US democracy are in “very serious decline,” as social mobility is among the worst among the richest nations

In conversation with Joseph Stiglitz on the Eurozone Crisis – at the INET – OECD conference, 9 April 2015

In the recent hemispheric meetings, the United States has been completely isolated. It’s a radical change from 10 or 20 years ago

Yesterday was the day one of Norman Bay’s tenure as Chair of FERC

In Central America, the US administration is trying to win alliances by pledging $1 billion to boost security and economic development

Interview on Russia, the US media, and the stories told to justify American militarism

Is the US government really accepting Cuba as a sovereign nation that has chosen a different path? Or is it simply trying to overthrow the Cuban government by different means?

In January of this year, protests erupted in Kinshasa, the capital of the DR Congo, against President Joseph Kabila

The Syrian conflict has introduced great polarization within a community that once seemed united for Palestinian rights

I’m hard-pressed to see how this can possibly benefit an area’s economy, that is if its “economy” is understood to include all the area’s people, and not just the wealthiest who can influence prison placement

That act culminated ten years of terrorist atrocities in Central America. The decade began with the murder of Archbishop Romero, it ended with the murder of the six Jesuit intellectuals

AFSCME rank-and-filers are campaigning, with student and community allies, for a different kind of “CBA”

To suggest that the United States policies in Yemen was a ‘failure’ is an understatement. It implies that the US had at least attempted to succeed

Noam Chomsky is interviewed by a very prominent physicist on a variety of topics

The odd situation that gargantuan operations make it look like “free” is sensible – Google, Facebook, Twitter, and so on. You don’t pay for them, or don’t think you pay, anyhow – so why pay for anything else – especially coming from the left?

A Review of “Social Justice in Clinical Practice”

It’s a kind of stupidity that’s entirely rational within the framework within which it operates: but the framework itself ranges from grotesque to virtual insanity

Menendez not only plays loose with favors for Dr. Melgen; he plays loose with issues of war and peace. The people of New Jersey, and the rest of the country, deserve better

The design of these institutions can either create a class system within the economy or it can create classlessness

Spring brings with it major mobilizations of people into the streets for mass demonstrations around war and peace, justice, climate or other issues

Movements could fight for a shorter workday and work week as a valuable aid

Poor treatment of the workers who pick our produce is no accident. It is a predictable outcome of a system designed to have a bottleneck controlled by fewer and fewer corporations

How could we have a totally seamless relationship with the non-university public, in which the university becomes a source of knowledge and not a place where knowledge is locked up to be accessed only by those who pay to be within its walls?