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Albert: Parecon & Movement Building
Znet Article, September, 27 2008
Michael Albert
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Wanting parecon for the economy implies a commitment to justice consistent with wanting revolutionary transformation of other spheres of life as well. To overcome cynicism, guide practice, deepen support, avoid hypocrisy, and learn as we go, we ne...
Albert: Some Crisis Inspired Observations
Blog Post, September, 27 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Situating the market mess...
Schechter: Our Financial 9/11: Can They Save The System?
Commentary, September, 26 2008
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
Many know and the rest of us are just finding out that in this turbulent month of September, the US is experiencing a financial 9/11, probably worse than the one in 2001, as a series of cataclysmic developments rock our economic system which is, i...
Street: Profiles in Cowardice and Corruption: Why McCain and Obama are United in Weakness on the Financial Crisis
Znet Article, September, 25 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
The nation’s financial system is in the middle of a colossal crisis caused by massive fraud, idiocy, and greed at the upper reaches of the banking, insurance, and real estate industries. The arch-plutocratic Bush administration and Federal Reserv...
Rink: Democracy, Communism, Anarchism, and Taxes: Undermining the "Libertarian" Lie
Blog Post, September, 25 2008
Andy Rink
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Democracy, Communism, Anarchism, and Taxes: Undermining the "Libertarian" Lie
Baker: No Blank Cheque for Wall Street
Znet Article, September, 23 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Congress should not approve the Bush administration's $700bn Wall Street bailout without attaching some strings...
Sharma: Global Priority: Feeding Markets, Starving Hungry
Commentary, September, 23 2008
Devinder Sharma
Sharma's ZSpace page
The giants have stepped on a financial minefield. In the past six months, three of America's top five investment banks have disappeared. The remaining two - Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs - are gasping for breath. While Morgan Stanley is conside...
Baker: Progressive Conditions for a Bailout
Znet Article, September, 22 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
The events of the last week showed the urgency of dealing with the financial crisis. There is a real risk that the banking system will freeze up, preventing ordinary business transactions, like meeting payrolls. This would quickly lead to an econo...
Albert: Economic Mess...
Blog Post, September, 22 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Another crisis...and our job...
Weissman: The Financial Re-Regulatory Agenda
Commentary, September, 22 2008
Robert Weissman
Weissman's ZSpace page
As the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department careen from one financial meltdown to another, desperately trying to hold together the financial system -- and with it, the U.S. and global economy -- there are few voices denying that Wall Street has...
Klein: Free Market Ideology is Far From Finished
Znet Article, September, 21 2008
Naomi Klein
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With Wall Street rescued by government intervention, there's never been a better time to argue for collectivist solutions.
Hahnel: What Is To Be Done?
Znet Article, September, 20 2008
Robin Hahnel
Hahnel's ZSpace page
Early in the twentieth century most socialists thought that after capitalism was overthrown workers in different enterprises and consumers in different communities would plan their activities together with little difficulty. But if the history of ...
Raina: Sweet Time For the Left in India
Znet Article, September, 20 2008
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
As the American neocon state borrows a whole sheaf from Chavez and other despised socialists, and stoops to nationalizing—yes, nationalizing-- the great and invincible bulwarks of American Capitalism, it underscores a theory of state that says ...
Baker: The Financial Meltdown Continues
Znet Article, September, 19 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Virtually the only certainty in the current financial situation is that there will be more problems ahead. Those who controlled the levers of economic and financial policy neglected their greatest responsibility, which was to ensure an orderly fin...
Albert: Gender In Venezuela
Znet Article, September, 19 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
In early September Michael Albert went to Venezuela and interviewed numerous people about the Bolivarian Revolution. Here is the first, about the role and situation of women, held with Nora Castañeda, head of the Women's Bank in Venezuela and prom...
Baker: Slinging Mud to Hide the Real Dirt
Znet Article, September, 18 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
The McCain-Palin ticket has developed an interesting campaign strategy. They don't want the public to see their plans to dismantle Social Security, Medicare, and the system of employer-provided health care. To distract people from these policies t...
Albert: Revolutionary Organization
Znet Article, September, 16 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
At some point a revolution will transform the U.S. economy, polity, kinship, and culture - and similar revolutions will transform other countries too. Such a revolutionary process will include diverse movements and organizations working together f...
Chomsky: Humanitarian Imperialism
Znet Article, September, 15 2008
Noam Chomsky
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Jean Bricmont’s concept “humanitarian imperialism” succinctly captures a dilemma that has faced Western leaders and the Western intellectual community since the collapse of the Soviet Union. From the origins of the Cold War, there was a reflexive ...
Halling: Participatory Law - A Law of No Gods, No Masters
Znet Article, September, 11 2008
Matt Halling
Halling's ZSpace page
It is understandable that, despite the wealth of material about participatory society, no one has written at length of the legal vision suggested by this new society. Lawyers are not a sexy subject for many activists to talk about: they reside in ...
Monbiot: Manufactured Famine
Commentary, September, 10 2008
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
A new wave of food colonialism is snatching food from the mouths of the poor.
