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ZNet Article Perhaps the most troubling aspect of Europe's current malaise is the replacement of democratic commitments by financial dictates -
- Thursday, May 24, 2012
ZNet Article One would think that the presidential election in post-Revolution Egypt resembles what takes place in democratic countries: except that Egypt is not a democracy ZNet Article Interview on the outcome of the May 6 vote and what will come next in Greece -
- Wednesday, May 23, 2012
ZNet Article As usual, there are two sources of "effluent" on the TV screen: the journalists themselves and the politicians with their supporting "experts" ZNet Article Election campaigns are tools of mass distraction to fog understanding, not advance it ZNet Article A key paradox for progressives of our national political life goes something like this: everybody complains about Congress, but nobody does anything about -
- Monday, May 21, 2012
ZNet Article The economic elites on both sides of the Atlantic have suddenly seen their plans for the future run into a volatile foe: democracy ZNet Article The old trope of the bomb-throwing anarchist is back in the news Commentary The working class has been radicalized and will not submit; mass demonstrations and general strikes have become common place -
- Sunday, May 20, 2012
ZNet Article Greece will hold new elections in June if last-ditch negotiations on forming a coalition government fail once again ZNet Article Preemptive raids and conspiracy charges are common characteristics of National Special Security Events -
- Saturday, May 19, 2012
ZNet Article Recent developments in Greece provide an acute illustration of the long-standing contradiction between capitalism and democracy -
- Friday, May 18, 2012
ZNet Article During more than two decades of occupation of Timor-Leste, Indonesian soldiers committed serious crimes with impunity -
- Wednesday, May 16, 2012
ZNet Article Crucial new elections in Greece will be held no later than 17 June ZNet Article Why the real victor in campaign 2012 won’t Be Obama or Romney
Commentary Local police forces have just been given an inordinate number of new toys and the boxes have been opened, the receipts tossed away ZNet Article The coming congresscan decide not only whether the Left party moves closer to the Social Democrats and Greens or to a more fundamental opposition -
- Tuesday, May 15, 2012
ZNet Article Evidence continues to emerge that Mitt Romney is a bully -
- Monday, May 14, 2012
ZNet Article The Simpson/Bowles plan will be the main course on this party's menu ZNet Article Victories of the movements and the radical Left in one European country can positively influence the political and social struggles in another -
- Saturday, May 12, 2012
Commentary The Greek case will initiate a domino effect; for Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and even France -
- Friday, May 11, 2012
ZNet Article Israel is currently experiencing the kind of turmoil that may or may not affect its political hierarchy following the next general election ZNet Article Conversation on the recent elections in Greece -
- Thursday, May 10, 2012
ZNet Article There are advantages to Netanyahu in postponing an election. Not least, it gives him time to entrench moves towards authoritarianism ZNet Article Any failure by Hollande to tackle social problems could, in the middle term, spell a new rise of the far right, and increasing hostility to immigrants and Islam ZNet Article The Greek election on May 6 saw the most spectacular electoral breakthrough for a European left party in living memory -
- Wednesday, May 09, 2012
ZNet Article The alienation and distrust that is everywhere has yet to find an adequate outlet. Perhaps change here will be subtle and slow. But it’s clear that Japan will never be the same ZNet Article The two periods of dramatic progressive reform were times when independent Left movements made increasingly bold demands on the Democrats ZNet Article The Vermont Progressive Party wields outsized influence on state politics ZNet Article “I have never seen such sustained unity for a progressive movement in Wisconsin in all my years here” - All Newest Content
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ZMag Article U.S. machinations and self-exemption from international law -
- Saturday, Dec 05, 2009
ZMag Article Orin Kramer defines Obama's duty to America -
- Thursday, Oct 01, 2009
ZMag Article Noam Chomsky's talk in Caracas, Venezuela, August 29 ZMag Article An interview with Comandante Ramiro, ERPI guerrilla -
- Tuesday, Sep 01, 2009
ZMag Article Climate politics and prospects in a crucial time frame ZMag Article Health reform prospects in the age of Obama -
- Wednesday, Jul 01, 2009
ZMag Article Analyzing the May 2009 Obama-Netanyahu-Abbas meetings - All Featured ZMag Polity
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- Wednesday, May 23, 2012
ZNet Article As usual, there are two sources of "effluent" on the TV screen: the journalists themselves and the politicians with their supporting "experts" ZNet Article A key paradox for progressives of our national political life goes something like this: everybody complains about Congress, but nobody does anything about -
- Monday, May 21, 2012
Commentary The working class has been radicalized and will not submit; mass demonstrations and general strikes have become common place -
- Wednesday, May 16, 2012
ZNet Article The coming congresscan decide not only whether the Left party moves closer to the Social Democrats and Greens or to a more fundamental opposition -
- Friday, May 11, 2012
ZNet Article Israel is currently experiencing the kind of turmoil that may or may not affect its political hierarchy following the next general election -
- Thursday, May 10, 2012
ZNet Article There are advantages to Netanyahu in postponing an election. Not least, it gives him time to entrench moves towards authoritarianism -
- Wednesday, May 09, 2012
ZNet Article The Vermont Progressive Party wields outsized influence on state politics -
- Tuesday, May 08, 2012
ZNet Article What is happening in France is not a unique turning point but one of many indicating that winds of change are blowing fiercely from Prague to Athens -
- Sunday, Apr 29, 2012
ZNet Article The big public sector unions of California and Oregon had their courage examined recently — both were found lacking -
- Thursday, Apr 26, 2012
ZNet Article How the hell can you elect people to do what you want done if they refuse to tell you what they'll do? - All Featured ZNet
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- Wednesday, Nov 09, 2011
Video Interview on progressives mounting a challenge inside the Democratic Party -
- Thursday, Aug 25, 2011
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- Wednesday, Aug 03, 2011
Video Noam Chomsky discusses several domestic issues in the United States, including the protests in defense of public sector employees and unions in Wisconsin, how the US deification of former President Ronald Reagan resembles North Korea, and the crac... -
- Thursday, May 12, 2011
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- Friday, Jan 21, 2011
Video An extended interview with Julian Assange recorded during filming of John Pilger's latest film "The War You Don't See". -
- Tuesday, Nov 23, 2010
Video Obama has significantly increased the US military threat to Iran... -
- Thursday, Nov 18, 2010
Video What's happened over the past roughly 35 years is that both parties have drifted to the right. - All Featured Video Polity
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- Thursday, Jun 09, 2011
Book This reader explores the conceptual and methodological dimensions of participatory research and the politics and practice of participation in development. -
- Thursday, Apr 14, 2011
Book Kerem Oktem charts the contemporary history of Turkey. Book Bringing together the lessons learned from four intensively-researched case studies the book argues that the overly rigid 'cookie-cutter' approach to demilitaristation is ineffective at meeting the myriad of challenges involving militias. -
- Wednesday, Nov 24, 2010
Book WAR IS A LIE is a thorough refutation of every major argument used to justify wars, drawing on evidence from numerous past wars, with a focus on those wars that have been most widely defended as just and good. -
- Tuesday, Sep 07, 2010
Book In The Price of Fear, Ibrahim Warde presents a devastating critique of a lesser known front in the "war on terror," the battle against terrorist financing. Warde demonstrates that the financial front has been anything but benign and has instead un... -
- Thursday, Jul 01, 2010
Book This, Raúl Zibechi's first book translated into English, is an historical analysis of social struggles in Bolivia and the forms of community power instituted by that country's indigenous Aymara. Dispersing Power, like the movements it describes, e... -
- Saturday, Jun 19, 2010
Book "Being a true tale of a possible better world in its first untamed imaginings." - All Books on Polity
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- Sunday, Oct 23, 2011
Blog Post The first in a series of writings exploring alternative ways that the Occupy Movement can engage with questions of "the economy" and with our strategies for moving toward long-term transformative organizing. -
- Tuesday, Nov 30, 2010
Blog Post Ireland gets bailed out, but at what costs? -
- Monday, Nov 29, 2010
Blog Post My initial reaction to the latest Wikileak is mixed... -
- Thursday, Nov 18, 2010
Blog Post On September 24 the FBI raided homes of 14 activists in movements in solidarity with oppressed workers and peoples of Latin America and Israel/Palestine. -
- Monday, Nov 15, 2010
Blog Post A look at why the working class takes the brunt of the tax burden; instead of the rich -
- Wednesday, Nov 03, 2010
Blog Post This is the talk I gave, November 1, 2010 at the Thomas Merton Center introducing Noam Chomsky. Chomsky was then presented the annual award for lifelong social justice activism by the Thomas Merton Center of Pittsburgh, PA. Chomsky then gave a tal... -
- Friday, Oct 15, 2010
Blog Post Richard Greeman reports from Montpellier, France about the ongoing mass demonstrations and national strikes against Sarkozy's attempt to raise the retirement age. - All Polity Blogs
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- Thursday, Mar 03, 2011
Audio Christopher Hellman, a budget analyst and communications liaison for the National Priorities Project, explains how he arrived at the staggering numbers that make up the US national security budget. -
- Tuesday, Sep 21, 2010
Audio This interview explores the the US housing industry and how it helped to cause the current economic crisis, and was so damaged by the crisis that its crippled state now undermines efforts to escape from the crisis. -
- Saturday, Sep 19, 2009
Audio An interview with Paul Street, one of Mr. Obama's earliest critics from the left, who had the opportunity back in Chicago to see him in action. Total runtime an hour and one minute. -
- Tuesday, Dec 09, 2008
Audio Stephen Shalom and Cynthia Peters interviewed on Against the Grain radio about their chapter contributions to the book Real Utopia. -
- Tuesday, Jan 29, 2008
Audio In Defense of Academic Freedom, Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago 12 October 2007 -
- Friday, Jan 25, 2008
Audio Introduction to conference In Defense of Academic Freedom, Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago 12 October 2007 Audio In Defense of Academic Freedom Conference... - All Featured Audio Polity
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