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Michael Albert, Jessica Azulay, and David Marty Occupy Strategy Volume 3 of Fanfare for the Future Woods Hole, MA: Z Books, Z…
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We have described desirable key defining institutions for four key spheres of social life, and two overarching contexts. This is not a…
In 1940, as Nazi armies marched across Europe, United Automobile Workers Union (UAW) president Walter Reuther made a stunning proposal: Retool the…
On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin talks to Dr. Noam Chomsky, philosopher, linguist, professor, political critic, and author of…
In an article published May 15, 2013, American historical social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote, “Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power…
Chapter Seven: Participatory World This is the chapter seven of Occupy Vision, which is the second volume of the three volume set titled Fanfare…
Since 2009, Voices for Creative Nonviolence has maintained a grim record we call the “The Afghan Atrocities Update” which gives the dates,…
MIT professor Noam Chomsky criticized the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on Friday, saying President Barack Obama could have provoked…
It is an event “of cosmic proportions”, said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description of Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott an Israeli…
American workers need jobs. They also need protection from chemicals and pollutants that threaten their lives, health, environment, climate, and future. Gina…
As they spoke to a BBC correspondent in their run-down room which they call home in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a man sobbed as…
The president’s new choices for Commerce secretary and FCC chair underscore how far down the rabbit hole his populist conceits have tumbled.…
Seemingly out of nowhere the FBI announced that fugitive Black activist Assata Shakur was now declared a “terrorist” on their Most Wanted…
Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Noam Chomsky, is without doubt the most widely heard and read public intellectual…
Chapter Six Occupy Vision: Stewardship This is the chapter six of Occupy Vision, which is the second volume of the three volume set titled Fanfare…
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Thirty-one months ago, when the Service Employees International Union first defeated the National Union of Healthcare Workers in a unit of 45,000…
When President Obama was first elected, in 2008, much of the world waited to see what sorts of changes he would introduce…
In this episode of press TV's documentary program renowned American academic Noam Chomsky says the United States would be recognized as a…
Himanshu Kumar is a Gandhian activist who, together with his wife, ran the Vanvasi Chetana Ashram in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh for 22 years.…
April is usually a cheerful month in New England, with the first signs of spring, and the harsh winter at last receding.…
Progressives often wonder why so many Republican lawmakers stick to their avowed principles while so many Democratic lawmakers abandon theirs. We can…
It happens over and over again. A company proposes some big project, environmentalists oppose it, but unions say it will create jobs.…
The World Social Forum (WSF) was a gathering mechanism for activists, movements, and projects to exchange information and experiences simultaneously, publicly, in…
As I write this Brian Eister is on the 27th day of a water-only climate hunger strike outside the American Petroleum Institute…
I had an opportunity to interview WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been granted political…
Chapter 5 of Occupy Vision: InterCommunalism This is the chapter five of Occupy Vision, which is the second volume of the three volume set…
One of the most inspiring examples of people fighting back against the predations of international capital is taking place in the Jagatsinghpur…
In the wake of Thatcher’s departure, I remember her victims. Patrick Warby’s daughter, Marie, was one of them. Marie, aged five,…
Mike Stivers for Truthout: Anyone following issues of civil liberties under Obama knows that his administration's policies have been disastrous. The signing…
As a perpetual emotion machine — producing and guzzling its own political fuel — the “war on terror” continues to normalize itself…
Sudha Bharadwaj is a lawyer and a member of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha (Mazdoor…
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The struggle for structural reforms is essential to changing the “common sense” of the US political arena. But it is not enough…
As a commentator, educator, public intellectual, and one of the best-known anarchist voices in the U.S., Noam Chomsky has become a defining…
Few with any sense of intellectual or historical integrity would still question the bloody massacre that took place in the village of…
After the bombings that killed and maimed so horribly at the Boston Marathon, our country’s politics and mass media are awash in heartfelt…
On Sunday night, the Venezuelan presidential elections were a cliffhanger. Nicolas Maduro, the chosen successor by Hugo Chavez, won by the narrowest…
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This is the chapter four of Occupy Vision, which is the second volume of the three volume set titled Fanfare for the Future. In…
“Isn’t it interesting,” he pauses, reflecting, “that eating a banana is somehow comical.” Noam Chomsky says this to me with a semi-straight…
The Swedish novelist Henning Mankell tells of an experience in Mozambique during the civil war horrors there 25 years ago, when he…
On Sep. 17, 2012, Ismail Haniyeh, Prime Minister of the Hamas government in Gaza, made another appeal to his Egyptian counterpart Hisham…
The 2010 election at Kaiser Permanente (KP), the biggest private-sector union vote in 70 years, shook the labor movement—and a do-over this…
At the precise moment US President Barack Obama’s Air Force One touched down at Ben Gurion Airport on March 20, persisting illusions…
The story goes that some mice became very upset about the cat in the house and convened an emergency meeting. They finally…
Albert: What were some of the key political influences and events in your early politicization? Why do you think you went in…
One of the world's leading intellectuals and political activists, Professor Noam Chomsky has been awarded the UCD Ulysses Medal, the highest honour…
I recently saw a group that I support highlight in an email blast an article by John Stauber, “The Progressive Movement is…
