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

“It felt like being in a huge prison.” That was how I responded to questions I was asked after leading a delegation of African Americans on a visit to the occupied Palestinian territories

Activists protesting for “new energy revolution” in the United States

Noam Chomsky is interviewed by Bill Zimmerman

What Van Ronk’s book thoroughly exudes and the film completely misses is the cooperative, community-centered spirit of the time

A normal country would be concerned by how it is viewed in the world

Ten years prior, the US had stormed Baghdad, unleashing one of the 20th century’s most brutal and longest conflicts. Since then, Iraq has not ceased to bleed

Advice for the young: pursuing the simple virtues of honesty, integrity, and an open mind may not be welcomed by authority and power

Any review of the recent ups and downs of U.S. labor must start in Michigan

A whole generation of Afghans and other people around the developing world see the true results of Westerners’ self-righteous claim for the need to keep civilians “safe” through war

Seven months later, we have the new Egyptian dictatorship’s answer to the internet: monitor its users, jail its journalists in Egypt, and use it to broadcast messages of hate and misinformation about political opponents

In December 2013 David Marty did an extensive interview with Michael Albert. We present it in nine parts – of which this is the ninth

Thailand’s anti-corruption protesters appear to have lost faith in the key tenet of representative democracy: rule by people or parties elected by the majority of citizens

In December 2013 David Marty did an extensive interview with Michael Albert. We present it in nine parts – of which this is the eighth

May you always find your happiness in alleviating the pain of others by standing up for what is right and honorable