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Recent ZNet
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August 15, 2017
Healing and building are where the bulk of our energies belong right now, because getting our shit together is a task more important than any one action, and in this moment, I am terrified of what failure looks like
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Swanson: Top 10 Misconceptions About Charlottesville
August 15, 2017
The military and militarized police are not here to protect you
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Cohn: Catastrophic and Illegal
August 15, 2017
As Special Counsel Robert Mueller impanels two grand juries to investigate Donald Trump and his...
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Greenwald: The Misguided Attacks on ACLU
August 15, 2017
That anyone who defends the legal rights of terrorists or gives them a platform is culpable for the violence they commit has been standard neoconservative and far right cant for decades
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Conway: Venezuela: Target of Economic Warfare
August 15, 2017
One reason Maduro is so despised by the opposition is that he refuses to follow the neoliberal economic prescription of austerity, privatization, deregulation, etc.
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Zirin: Will Charlottesville Provoke White Athletes?
August 15, 2017
Want to demoralize the fascist right? We need their white athletic heroes telling them to go to hell
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Thompson: New Generation of White Supremacists
August 15, 2017
A group that included many people who were college-educated or ex-military displayed effective planning. “White people are pretty good at getting organized,” said one.
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August 15, 2017
Think that on this day Of the remembrance of freedom Nothing should be free; From...
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Farthing: Evo’s Bolivia: the Limits of Change
August 14, 2017
Radical social change will not happen unless these movements are active and independent
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La Botz: Successful Convention Moves DSA to Left
August 14, 2017
The socialist movement in the United States took a big step forward
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Golinger: Battle for Venezuela and Its Oil
August 14, 2017
There is a long history of Washington meddling in the affairs of Venezuela
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Blazak: Fascists Fall for Trump
August 14, 2017
There will be casualties along the way as the 2017 alt-right versions of those 1980s skinheads believe they’ve got their strong leader. That’s why Americans cannot be silent or still
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August 14, 2017
Ellecer Carlos will a featured speaker at the Radical Ideas conference that will be held...
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August 14, 2017
Finding better ways of describing nature and our relationships with it so we can better defend it
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August 14, 2017
America needs a new self-image, and probably more to the point, a new conception of masculinity
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Weisbrot: Convicted of Corruption on Flimsy Evidence
August 14, 2017
Lula da Silva and his Workers’ Party are an affront to the country’s traditional elite—which is itself mired in corruption—so they want to destroy him by any means necessary
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Richman: Not the First Time for North Korea
August 14, 2017
The North Korean people have seen their share of fire and fury at the hands of the U.S military
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Brooks: Why Did Nissan Workers Vote No?
August 14, 2017
By all accounts, organizing committee members were too intimidated even to speak up during Nissan's captive-audience meetings
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Gerson: Diplomacy to Resolve Crisis
August 14, 2017
We face a situation with dangerous parallels to the period leading to the Guns of August in 1914
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Cooke: Trump Versus the Venezuelan Revolution
August 14, 2017
A “red tide” can rejuvenate the revolutionary forces across the hemisphere and easily drown out the recent victories of various counter-revolutions
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Fletcher: It’s about white supremacists
August 13, 2017
What we must do is rip the cover off of every effort that he undertakes to obscure white supremacist and xenophobic violence and hatred
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July – Aug ZMag
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Finley: A Feminist Perspective on Trumpcare
Although the American Health Care Act (AHCA) of 2017 is rife with problems, one of the most disturbing is its shocking gender bias. But why should we be shocked that the AHCA, or “Trumpcare,” privileges males, as it was crafted by a group of privileged males
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Dolack: Housing Is A Human Right
A basic problem of housing is that housing is a commodity instead of a human right. We’re not accustomed to seeing housing as a basic right for everybody, but why isn’t it?
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Baroud: How Palestine Disappeared from U.S. Media Coverage
As if he has, overnight, been transformed into a master politician, Donald Trump’s 27-hour trip to Israel has left many analysts mystified.
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The one barrier to the threat of destruction is an engaged public, an informed, engaged public acting together to develop means to confront the threat and respond to it. That’s been systematically weakened, consciously.
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The Manchester atrocity lifts the rock of British foreign policy to reveal its Faustian alliance with extreme Islam, especially the sect known as Wahhabism or Salafism, whose principal custodian and banker is the oil kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Britain’s biggest weapons customer.
Recent Audio/Videos
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Benjamin: Opposing war and militarism
August 12, 2017
Speaking about the urgent need for grassroots movements to oppose war and militarism in the U.S. and around the world
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Chomsky: Building Sustainable Economies
August 7, 2017
Interview on the politics in Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela and across Latin America
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August 5, 2017
Interview on a wide range of topics, from the development of his personal political views to the control of information and media
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Wilpert: Venezuelan Vote Count
August 4, 2017
The CEO of the company that sold and operates the voting machines in Venezuela says that there was a discrepancy of 1 million votes
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Pilger: The Coming War On China
August 2, 2017
Interview on a new documentary “The Coming War On China” and the military escalation that could lead World War III
Recent Blogs
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Emersberger: The Spectator’s Latest Effort to Use Venezuela to Attack Corbyn
August 11, 2017
Excerpts below from a Spectator editorial entitled “Jeremy Corbyn still...
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Wittner: Playing Nuclear “Chicken” With Our Lives
August 10, 2017
What kind of civilization have we developed when two mentally...
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Khan: American rulers, their wars and the god
August 9, 2017
Nasir Khan, August 9, 2017 We were told by the...
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Emersberger: UN Human Rights Body Makes an Outlandish Statement on Venezuela
August 9, 2017
According to a UN statement that was widely reported by...
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Emersberger: Recalling how the Blairites backed a coup in Venezuela
August 8, 2017
With Blairites, among many others, pressuring Corbyn to try to get him...
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Practical Utopia
Michael Albert's new book is available at PM Press and via Amazon. Part one offers tools for understanding society and history. Part two promotes a vision for a better way of organizing economy, polity, kinship, culture, ecology, and international relations. Part three proposes tactics and programs. And here is the Introduction to Practical Utopia
Parecon / Parsoc
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Polychroniou: What Is ParEcon?
Albert: Intro to ParEcon
Albert: Parecon's History
Albert: Addressing Criticisms
Albert: Interrogating Parecon
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Podur: Life After Racism
Peters: Kinship Vision
Shalom: Visionary Pol
Shalom: Future Pol
Albert: Parecon & Parsoc
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Being Left
Vincent Emanuele interviews Michael Albert Activism and vision
Spanish activist David Marty interviews Albert on : Being Left
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