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Commentary Albert: Election Issues

Commentary, November, 13 2000 Michael Albert
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The election fiasco is an unexpected spur to progressive prospects. Lots of people are thinking hard about what good government is. This could yield positive political vision, not just a list of things we donÕt like.The coming assault on the Elec...

Zmag Article Albert: Why Not Create A Shadow Government?

Zmag Article, November, 01 2000 Michael Albert
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Why Not Create A Shadow Government?

Commentary Administrator: Cato Deploys New Weapon: “Disability Fraud”

Commentary, October, 31 2000 Site Administrator
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I wondered how long it would take a right-wing think tank to cry foul when it got hold of the fact that disabled person may collect Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and pursue an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) employment discrimi...

Commentary Shalom: Turmoil in Palestine: The Basic Context

Commentary, October, 10 2000 Stephen1 Shalom
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As the occupied Palestinian territories suffer their worst paroxysm of violence in years, with the casualties, as always, overwhelmingly Palestinian, the mainstream media, also as always, focus on peripheral questions, offer misleading answers, an...

Zmag Article Administrator: Slovenia, Somewhat Out of Step

Zmag Article, October, 01 2000 Site Administrator
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Slovenia, Somewhat Out of Step

Commentary Albert: The Trajectory Of Change

Commentary, October, 01 2000 Michael Albert
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I think we have a problem. From Seattle through Prague and San Francisco, we have established an activist style needing some mid-course correction. WhatÕs the problem, you might ask? Thousands of militant, courageous people are turning out in ci...

Commentary Administrator: BEFORE AND AFTER YUGOSLAV ELECTIONS

Commentary, September, 27 2000 Site Administrator
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The first round of voting to elect the next President of Yugoslavia Presidential is to be held on September 24. If no candidate wins an absolute majority, there will be a runoff two weeks later. Because of the boycott by Montenegro, this will esse...

Zmag Article Albert: What's Napster'and Freenet?

Zmag Article, September, 01 2000 Michael Albert
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The New York Times business pages have lately featured reports of a music industry crisis. Many leftists don’t read these pages, but this is big news for everyone, perhaps especially for the left. Napster Napster is a computer p...

Commentary Albert: Lesser Evil?

Commentary, August, 21 2000 Michael Albert
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The general anti-Nader argument is very simple. To vote/work for Nader means not voting/working for Gore. That's uncontestable. In states with close Gore/Bush ratings, Gore could lose enough votes to Nader for Bush to win the state, and ultimately...

Commentary Albert: Anarchism Today

Commentary, August, 07 2000 Michael Albert
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In lieu of attending the North American Anarchist Conference (NAAC), I was asked: Òwhat do you think of anarchism as an existing and potential ideology and movement?Ó Well, I think if anarchism were an ecology, it would be a tropical rain forest--...

Commentary Shalom: The Crash of the Osprey

Commentary, July, 03 2000 Stephen1 Shalom
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On April 8, a hybrid helicopter-airplane known as the V-22 Osprey crashed in Arizona, killing all 19 Marines aboard. It was, said Air Force Magazine, "one of the worst accidents in the history of Marine Corps aviation and one of the deadliest mili...

Zmag Article Albert: Class, Race, Sex?!

Zmag Article, July, 01 2000 Michael Albert
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Toward the end of the 1960s, Marxism climbed into the left’s ideological saddle. Left thought elevated economics. Class became paramount. Imperialism became the reigning enemy. Astute activists felt that the plight of the ghettoes, the sex life of...

Commentary Administrator: THE BERLIN TRIBUNAL: MORE SERIOUS THAN THE HAGUE

Commentary, June, 30 2000 Site Administrator
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Last June 3, two tribunals reached opposite conclusions concerning accusations of war crimes brought against NATO for its 1999 bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. In The Hague, Carla Del Ponte, chief prosecutor at the "International Criminal Trib...

Zmag Article Administrator: CEO Gravy Train Keeps On Rolling

Zmag Article, June, 01 2000 Site Administrator
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It’s getting harder to tell CEO paychecks from lottery payouts. Except that CEOs expect to win big even when the company loses. When Coca-Cola CEO Douglas Ivester announced his retirement, Bloomberg compensation a...

Zmag Article Administrator: Where Are All the Bodies Buried?

Zmag Article, June, 01 2000 Site Administrator
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In March 1999, NATO forces launched an 11-week nonstop aerial attack upon Yugoslavia that violated the UN charter, NATO’s own charter, the U.S. Constitution, and the War Powers Act. Yugoslavia had invaded no UN or NATO membe...

Commentary Albert: Participatory Economic Program

Commentary, April, 16 2000 Michael Albert
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Participatory economics is a set of institutions for accomplishing production, consumption, and allocation while meeting peopleÕs needs and furthering their development; is a set of institutions designed to propel equity, solidarity, diversity, an...

Commentary Albert: Economics and the Rest Of Society

Commentary, April, 02 2000 Michael Albert
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A Participatory Economy produces, consumes, and allocates to meet peopleÕs needs and develop their capacities. It also promotes equity, solidarity, diversity, and self-management. Its central features are workersÕ and consumersÕ councils, remunera...

Commentary Administrator: ANTI-CORPORATE PROTECTION MARKET

Commentary, March, 30 2000 Site Administrator
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One of the more entertaining pieces of email to cross my screen in the last few weeks, was a cover letter with a "Guide to the Seattle Meltdown: A Compendium of Activists at the WTO Ministerial." The letter noted that the "perceived success" of th...

Commentary Albert: A Program Seeking Participatory Allocation

Commentary, March, 26 2000 Michael Albert
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Participatory planning is the allocation component of participatory economics. Producers and consumers organized in councils cooperatively negotiate labor, resource, and output allocations. The procedure organizes economic choices and simultaneous...

Commentary Albert: Vision Matters

Commentary, March, 19 2000 Michael Albert
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So far I have sent out an economic vision and strategy commentary each of the past eight Sundays. I assumed we would quickly agree that we don't have but that we do very much need a shared economic vision, and that to get one we need to collective...

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