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Prashad: Kurds Overwhelmingly Vote for Independence
It is important to recognize that this vote is not a mandate from the Kurdish people for an independent country
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Gies: Fighting The Global Food Crisis
Tackling problems underlying the food crisis demands that producers and consumers recognize that the causes of opposing crises of malnutrition and obesity are one in the same: an undemocratic, corporate-controlled food system
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Feffer: Engaging North Korea on Human Rights
North Korea has the worst human rights record of any...
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How reconsidering the history of policing in Puerto Rico complicates our understandings of the island's colonial relationship with the United States
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The Kurdistan Regional Government on Thursday rejected the decisions of...
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Emmons: Sweeping Surveillance Law
The Trump administration is pushing hard for the reauthorization of a key 2008 surveillance three months before it sunsets in December
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Cruz-Díaz: A Requiem for Puerto Rico
The Puerto Rican people must resist and fight back in the best way possible: by surviving and thriving together
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Dobbin: Resisting NHS passport checks
The government is making migrant women afraid to seek healthcare, increasing their chances of complications or even death
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Bernat: Committees in Defence of the Referendum
Update on developments as the Catalan people resist the Spanish state's crackdown on their independence referendum
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The guardianship system basically means that Saudi women are totally powerless over their own lives and destinies unless their male guardian allows them that power
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Kimberley: Killing Kaepernick’s Movement
Kaepernick made police brutality his target. No one should claim to join with him unless they are completely on board with that sentiment. Stand or kneel with Kaepernick against the police state or don’t bother at all
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Savio: Dismal Trend for Europe
The traditional parties who have run their countries since the end of the Second World War are becoming irrelevant
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Morillo: Underwater in Puerto Rico
Interview on how to take control of Puerto Rico from Wall Street and how to best assist islanders devastated by hurricanes
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Portnoy: Puerto Rico’s Colonial Reality
A good part of PR’s “essential infrastructure” is built to benefit and serve the tourist industry and mercantile trade with the US, and only the US
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Adjunct professors in America face low pay and long hours without the security of full-time faculty. Some, on the brink of homelessness, take desperate measures
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Glick: Religion and Revolution, Part Two
There is no hope, zero, for transformative change without effective organizations that are deeply rooted among our peoples, it is essential that we identify this problem as fundamental if we are to win
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For 24 hours, the world was told about the lifting of the driving ban rather than the chopping-off of heads, the arrest of human rights activists and the horrific war in Yemen
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As DNA has played an increasingly pivotal role in exposing wrongful convictions, CCA has taken an equal and opposite approach, interpreting the state’s DNA statute in order to narrow its impact as much as possible
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Cohn: Muslim Ban 3.0 Still Unconstitutional
After federal courts struck down Donald Trump’s first two Muslim...
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Dolack: An honest conversation about Vietnam
A system in which the mass media is believed to be independent is far more effective at suffusing a society with an ideology
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Grossman: Merkel Clobbered While Rightists Threaten
One eighth of the voters, almost 13 percent, vented their anger in an extremely dangerous direction - for the young Alternative for Germany party, whose leaders are loosely divided between far right racists and extreme right racists
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Sept ZMag
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Flowers: Trump Enters Quagmire
Afghanistan is evidence of the never-ending policy of full spectrum dominance sought by the U.S. empire
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Rasmus: Central Bankers At the End of Their Rope
The most reliable guide to understanding neoliberalism is Jack Rasmus’s book, Central Bankers on the Ropes, which examines the fundamental role of central banks in our current savage global economy.
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The vicious assault on counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia by a volatile amalgam of Neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan, Alt-Right and other white nationalist forces was one of the most horrific acts of domestic terrorism in American history
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Boardman: NFL Plantation Owners Ban Uppity Quarterback
Trump's administration is contributing to social calm and order by setting out to give local police more military weapons, from armored troop carriers to grenade launchers.
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Studies have shown that doctors who have received payments from pharmaceutical companies are more likely to prescribe those companies’ medications. But pharmaceutical companies go far beyond wining and dining doctors, or paying them speaking fees. They organize “patient advocacy” groups that pretend to be grassroots organizations
Recent Audio/Videos
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Hurricane Maria wreaked havoc on Puerto Rico, but massive debt and a crumbling infrastructure put the island in crisis long before the storm
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As Republicans attempt a last-ditch repeal of Obamacare, Democrats have joined them to overwhelmingly pass massive spending on the military and war
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Bennis: Trump’s Threat is Illegal
Donald Trump's comments at the UN General Assembly violate international law, and the world should hold him to account
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Kiriakou: Harvard Picks Torture
The goal is to ruin you permanently, to make an example of you so that other people don't take your cue and blow the whistle on waste, fraud, abuse, and illegality
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Picciolini: Stopping the Spread of Hate
Christian Picciolini describes how he became a neo-Nazi, why he stopped being one, and what he's doing to help people leave hate groups
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Haigh: Trump, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un
We are delighted to bring you Fools Rules from Beldon Haigh and the Mother Of...
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Weisbrot: Venezuela’s New Economic Measures
The new measures can help alleviate some of Venezuela's economic problems, but do not address the heart of the problem, an inflation-depreciation spiral
Recent Blogs
Being Left
Vincent Emanuele interviews Michael Albert Activism and vision
Spanish activist David Marty interviews Albert on : Being Left
Belgian activist Paulo Rodriquez interviews Albert on: Thoughts and Deeds
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RPS/2044 is an oral history of the next American Revolution. 18 interviewees discuss their experiences, travails, joys, vision, strategy, campaigns, and victories. The book is a $5 ebook and $14 paperback, both on Amazon.
Fraser: Art and RPS / Lennon: An Organizer’s Take On RPS / Albert: Give RPS A Chance / Testimonials / TOC / Interviewees / Mark Evans Blog / Bertrand Dellinger’s Thoughts / Albert Interviewed
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
See also under Vision in the top Menu
Polychroniou: What Is ParEcon?
Albert: Intro to ParEcon
Albert: Parecon's History
Albert: Addressing Criticisms
Albert: Interrogating Parecon
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