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GREGORY WILPERT, ADJ. PROF. POLITICAL SCIENCE, BROOKLYN COLLEGE: A little over one week after Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez passed away, his life…
On a plane circling Baghdad in gray dawn light, a little Iraqi girl quietly sang to herself in the next row. “When…
This is the introduction to Occupy Vision, the second volume of the three volume set titled Fanfare for the Future. In coming days we…
End the Criminalization of the Homeless! Housing is a Human Right! Statement by Peter Bohmer, March 14, 2013. On Tuesday…
A friend of mine said that when he heard the news of the death of President Chavez that it felt as if…
More bad news emerged from Israel in recent weeks. Indeed, good news is seldom associated with Israel and its military occupation and…
What is modern propaganda? For many, it is the lies of a totalitarian state. In the 1970s, I met Leni Riefenstahl and…
Now we know. Every member of Congress has chosen whether to sign a letter making a crucial commitment: “We will vote against…
Let's assume that a particular Leninist, Lenny, and a particular Anarchist, Ana, each sincerely want to attain a truly classless society. They…
Noam Chomsky talks to TJ Armand about the mixed legacy of Hugo Chavez, freedom of speech violations in Turkey, religious fundamentalism and…
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This is the Conclusion of Volume One, Occupy Theory, of the Three Volume set, Fanfare for the Future. You can find out…
Something is happening in the Delaware River watershed, something important and inspiring. Yesterday over 100 people from dozens of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware groups joined together in…
Stringent “background checks” are central to many proposals for curbing gun violence. The following is a background check on the nation’s largest…
One fails to understand the unperturbed attitude with which regional and international leaders and organizations are treating the unrelenting onslaught against Rohingya…
I am sickened each time US politicians, or public figures, pay homage to AIPAC. Time after time they want to display their…
The most positive outcome of Rand Paul’s 13-hour filibuster—which ended when Paul was forced to take a bathroom break—was giving the American…
I’ll miss Hugo. When I first was introduced to him in Porto Alegre in 2003, he greeted me, “Mi padre,” and said…
Gregory Wilpert a German-American sociologist who earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Brandeis University in 1994. Between 2000 and 2008 he lived…
The outpourings that take place when someone dies always irk me a little. Why not offer the same sentiments, with the same…
I only started paying attention to Hugo Chavez and Venezuela at the time of the 2002 coup. At the time, I was…
1. If I am not mistaken you are from Germany, originally. Is that correct? Can you tell us a little about the…
A review of Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth, by Sasha Lilley, David McNally, Eddie Yuen and James Davis (Oakland:…
On January 8, Rev. Osagyefo Sekou, Spare Change News' editor-in-chief, sat down with one of the world’s leading public intellectuals, Prof. Noam…
An Israeli-Turkish rapprochement is unmistakably underway, but unlike the heyday of their political alignment of the1990’s, the revamped relationship is likely to…
When it comes to health-related “sin taxes,” don’t ask for consistency from Corporate America. Whenever there’s a public policy initiative, that would…
For the social compact of the United States, most of the Congressional Progressive Caucus has gone missing. While still on the caucus…
Leading up to November 6, I found myself focused on the matter of voter suppression and electoral shenanigans committed by the Republicans.…
Since 2008, the latest crisis of capitalism has given birth to a new wave of horizontal and collective forms of organising in…
Norman Finkelstein, Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel Is Coming to an End (New York: OR Books, 2012).…
This is part of an exploration/debate regarding parecon and peercommony. The first two essays are Summarizing Parecon by Michael Albert and Summarizing Peercommony by Christian Siefkes.…
A review of Nandan Nilekani's Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century (Penguin Books 2009) If you're so smart, why aren't you…
As our country is devastated by more and more severe droughts, floods, fires, and superstorms, the public is demanding regulation of the…
Congress waited six years to repeal the Tonkin Gulf Resolution after it opened the bloody floodgates for the Vietnam War in August…
Over the last two years, the Obama administration has executed what the president has termed the “Pivot to Asia” strategy, whereby the…
As you may know from prior announcements, ZCommunications has developed software for progressive social networking. It provides Facebook-like – and very soon…
“Dark and cold we may be, but this Is no winter now. The frozen misery Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move;…
Michael Albert: 1. As a person very well known for both video work and writing work – I wonder if you could…
Last December, I stood with supporters of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange in the bitter cold outside the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Candles…
Soon after the joint US-British bombing campaign ‘Operation Desert Fox’ devastated parts of Iraq in Dec 1998, I was complaining to a…
With the tenth anniversary of the Iraq invasion coming up next month, we can expect a surge of explanations for what made…
Despite much saber-rattling by Israel and the US administration and hyped-up expectations by the Palestinian leadership, the recognition of Palestine as a…
An eloquent historical, present and future perspectives as to the public educational system in the US how he believes it has been…
“It’s strange. We plan for everything. We insure our cars, our homes. We even insure our lives. But we don’t give a…
Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, talks to Laura Flanders about the economic and social conditions in Afghanistan and what…
There are two major events being organized by the US climate movement over the next month. The first and most immediately significant event is…
John Brennan’s confirmation hearing to become head of the CIA will take place at the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, February 7.…
The entrance of the French military into the Malian civil war further complicates a descent into hell which that country has been…
[This piece is adapted from “Uprisings,” a chapter in Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S.…
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