This is part five of a six part interview. It deals mainly with the IOPS experience

Interview on a variety of topics

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things.  That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be…

A look at the different world views that can divide people

Interview on the current situation in Gaza

The entire episode, particularly after its grim ending, seemed to traumatize Israelis into ignoring harsh truths about the settlers and the militarization of their society

The U.S. government now has the kind of surveillance powers formerly attributed only to a supreme being

This is part four of a six part interview. It deals mostly with issues of vision and strategy and their role in winning change

As advanced societies are de-politicised, the changes are both subtle and spectacular

Why aren’t there 50,000 members and a 100 or so chapters?

Inteview on a variety of topics

Richard Perle’s statements in an interview were yet another testament to the intellectual degeneration of a group that had once promised a ‘new Middle East’, only to destabilize the region with violent consequences that continue to reverberate until this day

The U.S.’s sledgehammer worldview is destroying countless lives and future generations

Delegates to Connecticut State Council of Machinists (CSCM) conference at the end of June voted unanimously to endorse and participate in the historic People’s Climate March set for Sunday, September 21, 2014 in Manhattan

This is part three of a five part interview. It deals mainly with participatory economics, what it is, and its merits or debits

The California City With A “Sister Country” And Its Own Lawsuit against Chevron

Interviewing Greenwald. In Orwell’s world, “nobody actually knew whether they were being watched at all times. In fact they didn’t know if they were ever being watched”

I always have contradictory feelings about July 4th

I mean by the word revolution, instead, a change in defining institutions in either of four key spheres of social life: economy, polity, culture, or gender/kinship.

ROAR interview exploring the idea of participatory economics

Stop Another US Military Intervention in Iraq

Those who are sincerely dedicated to the Palestinian cause should avoid illusion and myth, and think carefully about the tactics they choose and the course they follow

This is part two of a five part interview. It mainly deals with attitudes to some political perspectives and a possible alternative

Ramadan was an exacting platform through which poverty and deprivation were devalued so that when Ramadan was over, we felt grateful for the little we had, before we resumed our struggle for the rights and freedoms we truly deserved

“We substitute teachers like to think of ourselves as the marines of the public education system. Whenever a breach opens in our nation’s educational front lines, off we go: The few, the brave, the stupid.”

How Washington protects itself and the corporate sector

Paulo: Michael… First and foremost, what, in your opinion, a revolutionary?

Al Gore seems to be coming down firmly against all fossil fuels, not just coal and oil

Interview on working-class resistance during the Industrial Revolution, propaganda, and the historical role played by intellectuals in times of war

Environmental politics in the U.S. appears hopelessly polarized

Redrawing the Map of Iraq, Again

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How did a linguistics professor become an outspoken political critic and one of the most iconic public intellectuals in the world?

One has to be clear in the distinction between a Hamas-Fatah political arrangement necessitated by regional and international circumstances, and Palestinian unity

The July 13 March on Washington to Stop Fracked Gas Exports is happening at just the right time

A restive rank-and-file seeks new teacher union leadership

Unlike Mohamed Bouazizi, the Fatimas and Mostafas of the Middle East should not have to set themselves ablaze to become worthy of a news report. Their constant struggle and resistance is a story that must be told

By releasing the five Guantánamo prisoners without prior Congressional approval, President Obama has blown away the excuse that his hands are tied by Congress

In the past several months, we have been provided with instructive lessons on the nature of state power and the forces that drive state policy

Amid the upheavals in Thailand, Ukraine and Egypt, wealthy elites have used popular movements and elections to ratify decisions in their favor

Noam Chomsky discussion on U.S. foreign policy

So much is at stake: for whistleblowers, freedom of the press and the public’s right to know. For democracy

A General’s Odd War on the Muslim Brotherhood

Chevron will be back pulling the strings, just like it did during Richmond’s prior existence as a well-oiled company town

Outnumbered by the country’s rural voters, Thailand’s once vibrantly democratic urban middle class has embraced an elitist, antidemocratic agenda

Since 2007, activists have risked arrests, imprisonment, heavy fines and wildly excessive use of police force

Emerging Markets? Think Again

I hope that a large institution that could and should directly aid alternative media will do so as Greenwald, Cook, and Omidyar, decide to explore ideas for good relations with alternative media and to implement those that seem best

President Obama’s Broken Foreign Policy Promises

Chomsky and Greenwald discuss Snowden, the NSA, and the United States as a surveillance state