Z Friends & Staff Posts
It is happening across Australia in a scandalous and largely unrecognised abuse of human rights that evokes the infamous Stolen Generation of the last century
A look at Chomsky’s Challenge to American Power, by Anthony F. Greco
Interview on the impact of US foreign policy on Indonesia and how Southeast-Asian countries should be more independent
We appreciate that the Secretary heard us out and took the time to meet. However, he’s mistaken if he thinks that chatting with us for 40 minutes is going to make us forget about drone victims and the horrible treatment of the immigrant community
Long before the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment campaign inched slowly from the fringes, Tony Benn had been advocating a boycott of Israel with unrestricted conviction
Once we stop Shunning Venezuela and we start broadly Understanding Venezuela, what can we do to aid Venezuela?
Issues and concepts for consideration in the development of a full-blown left labor strategy
Leaders and members of Zenkoku Ippan Tokyo General Union (“Tozen Union”) met Saturday afternoon (March 8, 2014) with Professor Noam Chomsky
How does the fact that people differ from one another tell us that a corporate division of labor will be doable, but a division of labor that eliminates class difference won’t be?
Tthe stones for our slingshots are already all around us
Hope makes history. So does betrayal of hope.
And How the Same Godfather Rules From Canberra to Kiev
Interview on participatory economics
When I boarded the plane to Cairo, Egypt, to make sure everything was in place for the women’s delegation headed to Gaza, I had no reason to think I’d end up in a jail cell at the Cairo airport
The Lurking Danger Beneath
Text from a talk March 5th, 2014 at Forum on Venezuela and the Ukraine at the Evergreen State College. Olympia, WA
Building up an economic alternative creates necessarily a set of problems. That could be seen in Argentina
Witnessing a brutal occupation, where permanent insecurity and maximum humiliation are the norm
Ali Mustafa was no hotel journalist. When he went to Palestine and Egypt and to Syria, he lived with the people, shared their risks, faced whatever they faced
Even before the financial and economic crisis in 2008 capitalism has been in crisis
Interview on participatory economy for German/European TV – Part One.
The Palestinian Lesson that Every Syrian Should Know
An extensive exchange between Michael Albert and Gar Alperovitz on Parecon and Pluralist Commenwealth…
The frontrunner to become the next president of the United States is playing an old and dangerous political game — comparing a foreign leader to Adolf Hitler
Often the attempt to maintain secrecy is motivated by the need to guarantee the security of powerful domestic sectors
During the last five years, no world leader has done more to undermine international law than Barack Obama
What is needed if we are to have a chance of enacting a renewable energy revolution in enough time to prevent widespread and catastrophic climate disruption?
Remarks given by Noam Chomsky via Skype on 4 February 2014 to a gathering of members and allies of the Adjunct Faculty Association of the United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, PA
The essential story that is rarely told
People are confused about Venezuela. Why conflicts? Who is protesting? At what scale? What is the government response? What are the deeper issues? Even more, what do the deeper issues and possible responses portend for the future?
Venezuela is struggling to find a solution to capital flight and exchange rate problems
The election loss at the Chattanooga plant of VW was, first and foremost, a loss suffered by the workers
Ahead of his trip to Tokyo next month, we catch up with Noam Chomsky to get his views on recent geopolitical moves in the region
The Real News speaks to Venezuelanalysis.com founder Gregory Wilpert about the reasons behind the opposition protests in Venezuela
It would be nice if the New York Times deemed it just as important to report on the larger context of the story as it did to the public besmirching of a respected professor’s name
Amazon now has the means, motive and opportunity to provide huge amounts of customer information to its new business partner
It is essential to look toward a genuinely ecological and democratic alternative both in economics and politics
The VW election results have daunting implications for labor’s broader strategy of “bargaining to organize”
Interview on the founding of Code Pink and the need for a movement independent of the Democratic Party
I went to as many sites as I could think of, and I counted the number of articles linked. Then I counted the number of articles which addressed Venezuela.
Psychopaths and sociopaths don’t care. It’s a key part of their makeup that enables them to operate as heartless predators, exploiting everyone around them
Bernie Sanders’s voice would need to be the voice of the future—the voice of the progressive bloc that seems to be assembling to prevent a dystopian future
Interview on the cultural preoccupation with “the zombie apocalypse” in United States
Interview on wealth inequality and the no-billionaires idea
Matt, I have never met you personally, but I did first encounter you, years back, on a massive screen. It was seeing…
After 10 years of this remote-control killing, the Obama administration should seek effective solutions that adhere to international law.
Historians, like journalists, play their most honourable role when they myth-bust
There is little, if any, uproar and outrage, when brown women suffer at the hands of western men and women, or their cronies, as is the situation in Iraq
The relationship means that Amazon is responsible for keeping the CIA’s secrets and aggregating data to help the agency do its work. Including drone strikes
Pakistanis we have talked to say this could only happen on orders from the United States, which did not want Khan speaking out in Europe against US policy
