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In the first of two interviews with EUROPP editors Stuart A Brown and Chris Gilson, Noam Chomsky discusses technocratic governance in Europe,…
Linguistics professor Noam Chomsky has been America’s premier political dissident since the Vietnam War. Steven Durel: President Obama was just re-elected with…
France is insisting on ‘rapid’ military intervention in Mali. Its unmanned drones have reportedly been scouring the desert of the…
What constitutes a dictatorship? Haiti had an election in 2006, which the popular candidate won. It had an election in 2011, which…
“We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now…. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the…
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.…
Keane Bhatt: So let's start with your post-November 6 analysis. What, in your mind, have been the lessons to take away from…
Professor Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
Eman El-Hawi, a smart and perky 24-year-old business student from Gaza got teary when she told our delegation about what she witnessed…
When Belgium realized in the 1950s that, given that France and Britain were losing their African colonies, it would no longer be…
Palestine has become a “non-member state” at the United Nations as of Thursday November 29, 2012. The draft of the UN resolution…
The first half of my interview with world-renowned political activist, linguist, cognitive scientist, philosopher author, MIT Professor emeritus Noam Chomsky. Thanks to Don…
In life, some phenomena cannot be explained by ordinary logic or technical language, let alone official discourses. How did Gaza manage to…
In the week Lord Leveson published almost a million words about his inquiry into the “culture, practice and ethics” of Britain’s corporate…
Dr. T., a medical doctor, is a Palestinian living in Gaza City. He is still reeling from days of aerial bombardment. When…
An old man in Gaza held a placard that reads: “You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take…
On November 15, 2012, day three of the recent eight day bombardment of Gaza, Ahmed Basyouni and his family were watching news…
CS: I contacted you six months ago in relation to provocateurs in the Occupy Denver movement and I wanted to ask you…
The following piece titled Summarizing Participatory Economics is an initial entry for a debate/exploration conducted with Christian Siefkes, whose first piece is on Peercommony: A…
There is no political will among rich nations to find funding for developing countries experiencing the brunt of changes in global weather…
Seldom has a global conference been so devoid of positive expectations than the coming United Nations Climate Conference that will take place…
An uneasy cease-fire has been declared ending Israel's attack on Gaza, Operation Pillar of Defense. Take this quiz to see how much…
A review of Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting For the Labor Movement, by Jane McAlevey with Bob Ostertag. New York/London:…
Foreign policy played a minor role in a presidential election that focused on jobs, jobs, jobs. But like it or not, the United States is part…
You grew up in a home that was heavily influenced by Ahad Ha’am [7], the father of cultural Zionism. My father was a great…
In 2008, liberals, progressives and many leftists made a strategic mistake. With the election of Barack Obama, we assumed that we could…
In Peter Watkins’ remarkable BBC film, The War Game, which foresaw the aftermath of an attack on London with a one-megaton nuclear…
Rebels, called the M23, have taken Goma, the main city of North Kivu, one of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s eastern…
John Pilger talking at Media & War conference from Stuart Platt on Vimeo.
Colombia’s government and one of its main rebel forces, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), have agreed to give peace another…
Europe is different, as we are often reminded. The general wisdom is unlike the United States’ unconditional support for Israel. European countries…
Justin Podur, author of Haiti's New Dictatorship (Pluto Press 2012, BTL Books and Palgrave-Macmillan co-publishers) discusses Haiti and the book at Concordia…
World-renowned political dissident, linguist, author and MIT professor Noam Chomsky joins us to discuss his recent trip to the Gaza Strip, where…
In Malaysia, a small group of community activists are busy at work developing projects that benefit most vulnerable members of Palestinian society…
The 2012 elections may prove to have been a watershed in several different respects. Despite the efforts by the political Right to…
Foreign policy played a minor role in a presidential election that focused on jobs, jobs, jobs. But like it or not, the…
As one-half of a dedicated (if contrarian) union household, I received multiple copies of the California Labor Federation’s official voting guide before…
The polls had pointed to a very close election, and those of us who gathered around a television set here in a…
It was worth staying up ‘til 2 am last night to hear Barack Obama’s victory speech. The brother sure can bring it…
Even a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means to be under the total control…
With speculation now centered on how Superstorm Sandy's impact may affect the U.S. election result, the final presidential debate, which focused on…
Having recently returned from Pakistan meeting with drone victims, on November 4 my partner Tighe Barry and I were having a leisurely…
What did Hurricane Sandy teach us a week ago, here in South Africa, just as $30 billion of state funds is being…
If one were to rank a list of civilization's greatest and most elusive intellectual challenges, the problem of "decoding" ourselves — understanding…
The October 19th passing of noted labor activist Jerry Tucker sent shock waves throughout the labor movement. Whether one was a reform…
The tradition of radical pamphleteering in North America is as old as Thomas Paine and his distinguished predecessors in the struggle for…
Hamas vs. Fatah, vs. Egypt If the new Egyptian leadership thinks it is possible to achieve lasting reconciliation between rival Palestinian factions…
Much of New Jersey, New York City and elsewhere definitely got hit very hard by Superstorm Hurricane Sandy yesterday: several feet of…
“Mirwais, son of Hayatullah Haideri. He was 1½ years old and had just started to learn how to walk, holding unsteadily to…
Occupy Strategy – Interview with Michael Albert by Occupy Radio on Mixcloud
