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Scipes: Confronting Labor Imperialism in the US Labor Movement
Blog Post, October, 01 2011
Kim Scipes
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A recent book on the foreign policy program of the AFL-CIO has sold so well that it's been published in paperback, at a fairly affordable price. It covers over 100 years of labor imperialism, bringing things up to 2007. It discusses AFL-CIO involv...
Scipes: Progressive Failure in Debt “Crisis” Debacle: Looking to the Future
Znet Article, August, 10 2011
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
The debt crisis offered opportunities to progressive forces of which we failed to take advantage
Scipes: The Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East
Znet Article, June, 09 2011
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
This book is a major effort to explain developments in the Middle East to a primarily Western audience
Scipes: Iraq Veterans Against the War at Fort Hood, Texas
Blog Post, May, 27 2011
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
IVAW is pressuring the Army Command at Ft. Hood to allow troops to heal physically and mentally before redeploying them overseas.
Scipes: “The Flaw: Markets, Money, Mortgages and the Great American Meltdown”
Znet Article, May, 25 2011
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
An interesting and provocative film, but one that accepts the shibboleths of mainstream economics
Scipes: Lets Make Money
Commentary, February, 21 2010
Kim Scipes
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A Review of "Lets Make Money", a film by Erwin Wagenhofer. Distributed by Bullfrog Films, 2008
Scipes: The Green Zone
Znet Article, December, 26 2009
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
As a US military veteran—USMC, 1969-73, who turned around while on active duty—I have been incredibly frustrated at the impotence of the anti-war movement in the United States to stop the wars in particularly Iraq, Afghanistan and, increasingl...
Scipes: A Sociologist Critically Examines Paul Krugman's Economics
Znet Article, June, 11 2009
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
Paul Krugman is arguably the most-read economist in the world today. A Princeton University Professor of Economics and International Affairs, a Nobel Prize laureate in Economics, and a twice-weekly New York Times columnist, his reach extends far ...
Scipes: Neo-Liberal Economic Policies in the United States:
Znet Article, May, 30 2009
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
Most contemporary discussions of globalization, and especially of the impact of neo-liberal economic policies, focus on the countries of the Global South (see, for example, Bond, 2005; Ellner and Hellinger, eds., 2003; a number of articles in Harr...
Scipes: It's Time for a Deep Green Vision for the United States and World
Commentary, December, 07 2008
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
The Green movement around the world has presented a myriad of ideas and projects, each suggesting the way forward to a Green society. However, because there is no overarching vision, we have moved in this direction and that, stumbling from one go...
Scipes: The Green Party: An Electoral Force to be Reckoned With?
Znet Article, June, 21 2008
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
Last year, I published a couple of articles on the Greens that appeared on Z Net: “Wo sind de Gruenen?”, asking where are the Greens, and then “The Green Party: Critique, Response and the Illinois Greens October 2007 Membership Meeting”. I want ...
Scipes: "Open Letter to the Chicago Tribune on the Future of the Tribune and Mass Media Local Newspapers"
Znet Article, June, 18 2008
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
As the crisis of US newspapers have intensified over the last few months, I have thought a number of times about writing to the Tribune to share my two cents. Your Friday (6/13) column took to me actually sitting down to write—and although you mi...
Scipes: Reviewing Monbiot's Heat
Commentary, May, 14 2008
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
George Monbiot's latest book is arguably the greatest threat emerging to the "know-nothings" of today who deny global warming and the threat of climate change to human existence on the planet: it is a clearly written, hard-headed analysis that re...
Scipes: Getting on the Bus for Justice: Veterans from Chicago and Northwest Indiana Participate in 'Winter Soldier' Hearings in Washington, DC Area
Commentary, May, 03 2008
Kim Scipes
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Hans was traveling with about 40 veterans from the Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo wars (and other places around the world), plus spouses and partners, to participate in the "Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan" hearings at the National Labor Colle...
Scipes: The Green Party: Critique, Response, and the Illinois Greens October 2007 Membership Meeting
Commentary, November, 02 2007
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
Last June, I wrote an article, "Wo sind die Gruenen?" asking "Where are the Greens?" (http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/commentaries/3133). This was in response to my concern about a lack of boldness in the Greens, and what seemed to me almost...
Scipes: Wo sind die Gruenen? (Where are the Greens?) (with apologies to Leon Rosselson)
Commentary, June, 17 2007
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
As the Bush Administration continues its immoral and illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and as the Democrats pee all over themselves in finding ways not to stop the idiot-in-chief and his anti-democratic administration from destroying everyone ...
Scipes: Neo-Liberal Economic Policies in the United States:
Znet Article, February, 02 2007
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
Although most discussions of the impact of neo-liberal economic policies focus on the countries of the Global South, these policies have been implemented in the Unit...
Scipes: Is Cosatu playing with the devil?
Znet Article, December, 24 2006
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
The US labour centre, the AFL-CIO has a Solidarity Center in South Africa. Few unionists know what it does or stands for. Kim Scipes, in this revealing article, exposes some of its worldwide operations and wonders why Cosatu has a relationship wit...
Scipes: Venezuela and South Africa:
Znet Article, September, 28 2006
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
Traveling to both Venezuela and South Africa this past summer, through my work as an academic sociologist, I was able to observe firsthand two radically different approaches to "third world" development: a "redistributive approach" in Venezuela, a...
Scipes: The AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Program and the 2002 Coup in Venezuela:
Znet Article, September, 27 2006
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
In April 2002, following a general strike led by oil company management and collaborating labor union leaders in Venezuela, parts of the Venezuelan military launched a coup to remove democratically-elected President Hugo Chavez Frias from office. ...
