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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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Sometimes, at night in the city where I live, in Toronto, I will be walking alone to or from the subway station.…
A lot of what we say and do becomes habit-forming. Groundhog Day 2013 could serve as a reminder that some political habits…
A full-scale invasion of Africa is under way. The United States is deploying troops in 35 African countries, beginning with Libya, Sudan,…
Obama is definitely a great and compelling speaker, certainly by mainstream political standards. But that is not what I was pondering in…
Magnitsky Act implementation and uneasiness in US-Russia relations, NATO approving the deployment of Patriot missile interceptors to defend Turkish border with Syria,…
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A reductionist discourse is one that selectively tailors its reading of subject matters in such a way as to only yield desired…
Minutes before the interview began we received news of a school shooting in CT (the Sandy Hook tragedy). Details were unclear at…
Dear Progressives, With President Obama’s second term underway and huge decisions looming on Capitol Hill, consider this statement from Howard Zinn: “When…
A friend recently told me how a relative of theirs was most concerned about developments in Egypt, given the dominance of the…
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my…
A simple twist of fate has set President Obama’s second Inaugural Address for January 21, the same day as the Martin Luther…
A Review of Douglas Bland. 2009. Uprising: A Novel. Blue Butterfly Books. “By every measure, be it respect for treaty and…
When telecom technician Werner Schonau came to Nashville last February, it wasn’t for a fun-filled vacation, inspired by some Teutonic affection for country music.…
In this episode of Talk to Al Jazeera, Noam Chomsky sits down with Rosiland Jordan to talk about the two main tracks…
The following piece titled, "Replying to Siefkes' Reconsideration," responds to Christain Siefkes' Peercommony Reconsidered, which was reacting to Albert's initial comment on Peercommony. Siefkes…
This week, in Washington, D.C., Presidents Obama and Karzai will discuss a proposed Bilateral Security Agreement between Afghanistan and the United States.…
This is the introduction to the book Occupy Strategy – which is the third and concluding volume of the series titled Fanfare…
What does a Palestinian farmer who is living in a village tucked in between the secluded West Bank hills, a prisoner on…
The failure of the Congressional Progressive Caucus to stand up to President Obama on many vital matters of principle is one of…
I could not believe that I was actually seeing what I was seeing. I had heard about Oliver Stone’s 10-part documentary regarding…
Reporting on the final U.S. presidential campaign debate, on foreign policy, The Wall Street Journal observed that "the only country mentioned more…
Promised Land, the new movie starring Matt Damon, is a movie in part about fracking, the new and extremely problematic way of…
As 2013 gets underway, progressives need to be here now. We’re in a new era of national politics — with different circumstances…
There are many things to be thankful for in 2012, starting with the fact that the world didn’t end on December 21…
Women's rights have been in the forefront of international concern over the last few weeks. Up in arms against rape. Making the…
The following piece titled, Peercommony Doubts Parecon?, responds to Christian Siefkes' My Doubts About Parecon, which was reacting to an Albert summary of Parecon. Christian will…
