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Peters: Step 1: Identify the True Criminals among Us

July 28, 2014

If there was a crime being committed on Norwell Street, that was it -- the systematic theft of wealth from those who have not very much to those who have an obscene share of it
Wainwright: Workers as Agents of Economic Change

July 28, 2014

What if workers began thinking of themselves not as helpless casualties of forces beyond their control but as the source of the creativity needed to find solutions
Bond: In Fortaleza, BRICS Became Co-Dependent Upon Eco-Financial Imperialism

July 28, 2014

In this context, critics are forcing open two crucial debates: first, is BRICS anti-imperialist as advertised, potentially inter-imperialist as the Ukraine battleground portends, or merely sub-imperialist where it counts most: in the ongoing global financial and climate meltdowns?
Street: Gross Inequality All Too “Normal” Under Capitalism

July 28, 2014

You don’t have to be a Marxist or other kind of anti-capitalist to understand that capitalism is all about socioeconomic disparity
Finkelstein: Gaza: Ceasefire or Surrender?

July 28, 2014

Interview on the current situation in Gaza.
Weisbrot: How to Fix Venezuela’s Troubled Exchange Rate

July 28, 2014

Even though the country’s black market for U.S. dollars has stabilized, the government will need to bring inflation down in order to maintain a stable exchange rate.
Rasmus: A Reply to Thom Hartmann’s Interview of Richard Wolff

July 28, 2014

On the Causes of Investment Decline in the US Economy
Reporters: Protesters Fill London Streets In Solidarity with Palestine

July 28, 2014

Up to 100,000 people filled the streets of central London today, Saturday, in protest at Israel's continuing assault on Gaza
Swanson: War in Our Collective Imagination

July 28, 2014

I want to celebrate those who resist and oppose war, not those who engage in it
Helvarg: My Oily Town — Richmond

July 28, 2014

If the Supreme Court is right that corporations are people and money is free speech, then Chevron is the biggest loudmouth in Richmond
Falk: Cruelties of Ceasefire Diplomacy

July 28, 2014

Just as with the peace process itself, the time has surely come for a credible ceasefire to take account of the views and interests of both sides, and bring this sustained surge of barbaric violence to an end
Cole: Gaza: Why a ‘Cease-Fire’ is Not Enough

July 28, 2014

A cease-fire that does not include an end to the blockade on Gaza by Israel is not a cease-fire, it is a pause in the war
Cockburn: The Secret Report That Helps Israelis To Hide Facts

July 28, 2014

The slickness of Israel's spokesmen is rooted in directions set down by pollster Frank Luntz
Snow: Gaza is not just about them, it’s about us, too

July 28, 2014

This is humankind’s most grievous cancer, for its cells infect conflicts in every corner of the world. We fail as humankind if we do not devise a coming-together
Oreskes: Wishful Thinking About Natural Gas

July 28, 2014

Why fossil fuels can’t solve the problems created by fossil fuels
Fuentes: Bolivia’s Example Of Legislating With The People

July 27, 2014

A Bolivian vice-minister once commented that having the people protesting on the streets makes it so much harder to govern, but that at the same time he hoped they never leave the streets
Hass: Some 150 Bodies Recovered in Gaza as Death Toll Exceeds 1,000

July 27, 2014

Palestinian sources say seven members of medical teams have been killed by IDF in past two weeks
Doherty: Vietnam – Massacre as Strategy

July 27, 2014

Review of 'Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War In Vietnam' by Nick Turse
Gupta: The Return of Frankenstein

July 27, 2014

Politicians and generals may think they can control the monsters they’ve spawned. But unlike Al Qaeda, which needed a patron in the form of the Taliban, ISIL is building its own state in a region of utmost importance to Empire
Saadi: Rojava Revolution

July 27, 2014

Building Autonomy in the Middle East

More ZNet

Being Left

Spanish activist David Marty extensively interviewed Michael Albert. Here are links to sections on radicalization, media, vision, debates, writings, Venezuela, Occupy, IOPS, and Chomsky.

Being Left

Parecon / Parsoc

Various links on Parecon and Parsoc
See also under Vision in the top Menu

Lonnie Atkinson's Parecon Raps:
Intro / Bury TINA
Class Dismissed / No Gangsters
...and more!

Sargent: Post Sexist Society
Podur: Life After Racism
Peters: Kinship Vision
Shalom: Visionary Pol
Shalom: Future Pol
Albert: Parecon & Parsoc
Albert: 7 Reasons for Parecon

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IOPS Welcome Video

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Videos by Frequent Z Writers.
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Recent Audio/Videos

Finkelstein: Gaza: Ceasefire or Surrender?

July 28, 2014

Interview on the current situation in Gaza.
Hass: Turning Point?

July 26, 2014

Largest West Bank Protest in Decades Raises Spectre of a 3rd Intifada
Kouddous: In Gaza, Unrelenting Israeli Assault Causes “Grave Humanitarian Crisis”

July 26, 2014

Amidst talk of a potential ceasefire, the Palestinian death toll has passed 815 in Israel’s relentless bombings of the Gaza Strip
Stiglitz: Joseph Stiglitz on TPP, Cracking Down on Corporate Tax Dodgers & New BRICS Bank

July 25, 2014

Part 2 of a discussion with Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, a professor at Columbia University and the World Bank’s former chief economist.
Davis: On Palestine and the Prison Industrial Complex

July 23, 2014

to Davis makes the connections between the violence in Gaza and the struggle for racial justice
Levy: If Netanyahu Wants to Stop the Rockets, He Needs to Accept a Just Peace

July 23, 2014

Israeli journalist Gideon Levy argues that Middle East peace will never come until the Israeli government drops its rejection of basic Palestinian rights
Greenwald: Why Did NBC Pull Veteran Reporter?

July 21, 2014

NBC is facing questions over its decision to pull veteran news correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin out of Gaza just after he personally witnessed the Israeli military’s killing of four Palestinian boys on a Gaza beach

July/August ZMag

Swanson: Truman and the Memory of Mass Murder

June 28, 2014

Harry Truman spoke in the U.S. Senate on June 23, 1941: “If we see that...
Penrice: Remembering Maya Angelou

June 28, 2014

Throughout her career, writer and activist, Maya Angelou, published over 30 books, including 6 autobiographies, 6 children’s books, 2 cookbooks, nearly 10 volumes of poetry and at least 5 books of essays. Libraries, schools, and other public institutions bear her name
Solomon: An Assault from Obama’s Escalating War on Journalism

June 28, 2014

Five organizations—RootsAction.org, the Nation, the Center for Media and Democracy, the Progressive, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), and the Freedom of the Press Foundation—have joined together to start a campaign for protecting the confidentiality of journalists’ sources
Chomsky: Edward Snowden, the World’s “Most Wanted Criminal”

June 28, 2014

State power has regularly sought to create the misimpression that it is terrorists we are fighting; throughout, the basic principle remains; power must not be exposed to the sunight
Herman: War is Our Business and Business Looks Good

June 28, 2014

U.S. dealings with the Ukraine crisis

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Selected material from the internet.

Recent Web

Khalek: Merciless Israeli Mobs are Hunting Palestinians

July 28, 2014

Right-wing lynch mobs continue to roam the streets in search of Arabs to attack
Holpuch: Fast-food Workers Vote for Civil Disobedience

July 28, 2014

More than 1,000 fast-food workers gathered outside Chicago for a two-day convention which aimed to celebrate recent successes in the campaign for better workers’ rights
Lal: India’s Great Invisible Workforce

July 27, 2014

According to census data released this month, a whopping 160 million women in India, 88 percent of who are of working age (15 to 59 years), are confined to their homes performing ‘household duties’
Omer: Gaza Pulverised Beyond Recognition

July 27, 2014

Al-Hassan was here a month ago, but nothing he sees looks anything like what he remembers before Israel’s missiles started falling
Rinat: In Tel Aviv, thousands protest against the Gaza operation

July 27, 2014

Some 7,000 protesters were estimated to attended in the biggest protest against the operation thus far
Errejón: Spain’s Podemos

July 27, 2014

An inside view of a radical left sensation
Keret: Israel’s Other War

July 27, 2014

It’s become clear during this operation that the right wing has lost its patience in all matters regarding that elusive term, “freedom of speech”