Z Friends & Staff Posts
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
āUtopian socialismā can be more scientific than so called āscientific socialismā 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
Americaās 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 āvery serious decline,ā 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. Itās a radical change from 10 or 20 years ago
Yesterday was the day one of Norman Bayās 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 āCBAā
To suggest that the United States policies in Yemen was a āfailureā 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 āSocial Justice in Clinical Practiceā
Itās a kind of stupidity thatās 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?
“…we need to give people hope that there is a purpose to the mobilisationā
Using an imagined Arab threat as a fearmongering tactic is an Israeli political staple
In an administrative world view, then, closing down an english department or a math department and allocating those resources to a parking lot is a perfectly rational thing to do
How Crude-By-Rail Puts U.S. Communities At Risk
Noam Chomsky with David Barsamian
We cannot forget that the hideous slave labor camps of the new āempire of libertyā were a primary source for the wealth and privilege of American society
There is no question that while the battle is raging on in the Middle East region, the discourse itself is growingly being manipulated and is becoming a western one
March 19 marks two gloomy anniversaries: the 12th anniversary of US invasion of Iraq and the 5th anniversary of the NATO intervention in Libya
What we let our state impose on those walled beyond our borders we will tend to inflict on more and more people walled up within them
American fingerprints are all over a botched commando raid in the southern Philippines that left dozens dead and shocked the country
What do writers write? And in particular, what do left, progressive, and revolutionary writers write?
Dare to make it happen, even in the face of uncertainty
Intersectionality missing-in-action at Cape Townās Alternative Mining Indaba



