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- Sunday, May 19, 2013
ZNet Article There is a lot wrong with this report -- most of it reads like a statement from the Venezuelan political opposition, rather than a neutral third-party observer ZNet Article On May 11 as millions queued in sweltering heat to cast their vote, defying Taliban threats, Pakistan made history. For the first time, a governmental transition has been made possible through the ballot. ZNet Article Modi is used to being Caesar for his customary good governance. -
- Friday, May 17, 2013
ZNet Article There is no limit to the amount of money you can give to elect your friends and allies to political office -
- Thursday, May 16, 2013
Commentary History is full of examples we can learn from of how movements have kept their focus and fought through violent repression to victory -
- Sunday, May 12, 2013
ZNet Article All in all, Pakistan will have moved forward — but only by an inch ZNet Article The question of who is responsible for atrocities that occurred during the Guatemalan civil war is not just a question for Guatemalans -
- Wednesday, May 08, 2013
ZNet Article Interview on upcoming Pakistani elections, American influence in the region and other issues -
- Sunday, May 05, 2013
ZNet Article The Obama administration has continued the tried and true path of most US administrations in treating Latin America as if it is the backyard of the United States -
- Thursday, May 02, 2013
ZNet Article Venezuela’s National Electoral Council announced that they would not approve Henrique Capriles’ additional demands for the auditing of the April 14 elections ZNet Article In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, the American political environment is increasingly moving toward placing Islam itself on public trial -
- Wednesday, May 01, 2013
ZNet Article Interview on the upcoming general elections in Pakistan, the performance of the previous government, minority and sectarian issues, and secularism ZNet Article Once seen as a moderate party, the AKP government in Turkey is using anti-terrorism legislation to unleash a wave of repression against the left and the Kurdish movement -
- Thursday, Apr 25, 2013
ZNet Article In the wake of Thatcher's departure, I remember her victims ZNet Article In the forthcoming German elections the Left Party (Die Linke) can only be successful if it refuses to become another wing of the ‘German Unity Party’ ZNet Article It's interesting to see the way in which due process is being reinterpreted by Obama's Justice Department ZNet Article Trial testimony over the past four weeks had detailed a pattern of deliberate killing -
- Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013
ZNet Article A firsthand behind-the-scenes account of how Guatemala's current President and threats of violence killed the case ZNet Article Although an eventual conviction of Rios Montt would be cathartic, it still won't solve the troubles plaguing Guatemala -
- Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013
ZNet Article Civil liberties groups slam use of "public safety exception" to interrogate Tsarnaev without reading him his Miranda rights ZNet Article The capture of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev presents an opportunity to show that fighting terrorism doesn't require abandoning the Constitution ZNet Article Washington's clumsy efforts to de-legitimise Venezuela's election mark a escalation of its push for regime change -
- Monday, Apr 22, 2013
ZNet Article The masks are now off and fascism once again has a face -
- Thursday, Apr 18, 2013
ZNet Article Representatives of opposition leader Henrique Capriles’ campaign team requested a recount of 100% of the votes ZNet Article Opposition leader Henrique Capriles has given falsified evidence to support his claims that there was fraud in Venezuela’s presidential elections ZNet Article The White House statement shows once again that it is definitely not interested in improving relations. Nor is it interested in a 100 percent audit of the vote ZNet Article The Vermont example offers a significant, if limited alternate vision of what a thoughtful, strategic US left is capable of, electorally speaking. -
- Tuesday, Apr 16, 2013
ZNet Article The narrow victory draws attention to some of the failures and challenges of the revolution ZNet Article Hugo Chávez's economic policies were successful but a close vote means the new president cannot become complacent Video On Sunday night, the Venezuelan presidential elections were a cliffhanger. Nicolas Maduro, the chosen successor by Hugo Chavez, won by the narrowest of margins, around 300,000 votes - All Newest Content
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- Friday, Jan 01, 2010
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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- Monday, Apr 01, 2013
ZNet Article This is the chapter three of Occupy Vision, which is the second volume of the three volume set titled Fanfare for the Future -
- Monday, Jan 21, 2013
ZNet Article Thousands go every year to the memorial site where they were once buried -
- Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012
ZNet Article The “fiscal cliff” is entirely about priorities: Will the economic priorities of the 1% and the military industrial complex continue to be served? -
- Saturday, Sep 22, 2012
ZNet Article Interview with Marta Harnecker who travels throughout Latin America and says she is optimistic; the United States no longer does what it wants in the region and the concept of sovereignty has spread -
- Tuesday, Jul 31, 2012
ZNet Article How many war crimes does a western leader have to commit before he is deemed persona non grata by the corporate media and the establishment? -
- Saturday, Jul 07, 2012
ZNet Article By the 17th century, the Charter of the Forest had fallen victim to the commodity economy and capitalist practice and morality ZNet Article Planning the Next 6 Years of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution -
- Sunday, Jul 01, 2012
ZNet Article The clouds hanging over the future of Pakistan's state and society are getting darker -
- Wednesday, Jun 27, 2012
ZNet Article Graduating the class of 2012 onto our overheated planet -
- Tuesday, Jun 26, 2012
Commentary Racial division was only one of many economic and social problems all impervious to quick fixes - 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
Video Interview on the Libyan rebels -
- 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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