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Mcgehee: A Consumer Movement?
Blog Post, August, 25 2008
Michael Mcgehee
Mcgehee's ZSpace page
Thoughts on the applicability of organizing consumer councils. Now is the time to organize.
Baker: Let's Get Down To Gas Tax Cracking Down On Oil Speculation Could Prove Tricky
Znet Article, August, 18 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Many members of Congress and other political leaders have been bellowing against speculators who they blame for the high price of oil and petrol. According to their story, speculation is the main factor behind the run-up that pushed the price of o...
Suggett: Land Reform Conflict in Venezuela’s Strategic Water Source
Znet Article, August, 13 2008
James Suggett
Suggett's ZSpace page
Cooperativist ecological farmers supported by the Venezuelan government’s land reform programs were attacked last Thursday by armed and masked men who, the farmers say, were hired by large estate owners in the area to cut short the changes heralde...
Kagarlitsky: Capitalism in One State
Commentary, August, 13 2008
Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page
When Vladimir Putin was president, he liked to give short, somewhat ironic answers to difficult questions. In 2000, for example, when U.S. television talk show host Larry King asked him what happened to the Kursk, Putin answered, "It sank."
Spannos: International Organization for a Participatory Society (IOPS)
Blog Post, August, 07 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Last week, Michael Albert’s Z Education Online course “Parecon/Parsoc 2” seminar focused on issues surrounding the creation of an International Organization for a Participatory Society (IOPS). I have been thinking about this and so proposed my tw...
Early: Will Call Center Servicing Solve Labor's "Customer Satisfaction" Problems?
Znet Article, August, 04 2008
Steve Early
Early's ZSpace page
In early June, I found myself in San Juan, Puerto Rico, awaiting a vote by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) about whether to expand its current experiment with call center servicing....
Sklar: Minimum wage raise too little, too late
Commentary, August, 04 2008
Holly Sklar
Sklar's ZSpace page
Minimum wage workers have been stuck in a losing game of "Mother May I" with the federal government. Workers step forward when the government says yes to raising the minimum wage. Workers step backward when the cost of living increases, but the mi...
Albert: Wayne Price and Revolution?
Blog Post, August, 03 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Reply to a critique...
Schechter: How Should We Respond To The Imploding Economy?
Commentary, August, 01 2008
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
The question we face in late July, as regulators seize two more banks, is: will we be engulfed by a further collapse in our economy or can the damage be contained, or, even turned around?
Sharma: WTO Talks, A Tsunami Averted
Commentary, July, 31 2008
Devinder Sharma
Sharma's ZSpace page
It was a close call. Till the last minute, suspense became overbearing. Glued to our seats and teetering on the brink of fear, with abated breath we awaited the outcome of the last minute efforts to save an unjust an inequitable "Doha round" deal....
Wilson: Farm Bill & Food crisis Myths: Commodity Title Issues
Blog Post, July, 30 2008
Brad Wilson
Wilson's ZSpace page
There are a number of myths about the impact of U.S. farm policy on foreign farmers and the food crisis.
Simpson: A Better Class of Criminal
Blog Post, July, 29 2008
Bob Simpson
Simpson's ZSpace page
The tangled relationship between Batman, hard candy, rebel workers and the new green economy.
Albert: Which Way Venezuela?
Znet Article, July, 23 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution is exciting and exemplary, yet few people know much about where Venezuela is headed. Misrepresentations abound. Data is limited and people interpret it in contrary ways. Information deficit plus skewed interpretat...
C: Opposing Tesco's "Computers for Schools" Voucher Scheme
Blog Post, July, 23 2008
Mark C
C's ZSpace page
Open Letter to Tesco showing how deceitful the "Computers for Schools" Voucher Scheme is.
Monbiot: Kept Afloat on a Tide of Money
Commentary, July, 21 2008
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
All over the world, protesters are engaged in a heroic battle with reality. They block roads, picket fuel depots, throw missiles and turn over cars in an effort to hold it at bay. The oil is running out and governments, they insist, must do someth...
Stark: Book Review: One Market Under God
Blog Post, July, 20 2008
Aaron Stark
Stark's ZSpace page
A review of Thomas Frank's (2000) book "One Market Under God".
Simpson: Our Coddled Cry Baby Corporations
Blog Post, July, 16 2008
Bob Simpson
Simpson's ZSpace page
Coddling our cry baby corporations with deregulation, tax breaks and union busting has sure worked out well. Somebody from Vegas needs to tell us what the odds are for another Great Depression.
Meister: It's Time For Workers Of The World To Unite
Znet Article, July, 15 2008
Dick Meister
Meister's ZSpace page
The globalization of capital that has undermined workers everywhere finally has brought about moves for the globalization of labor. Finally, unions worldwide are seriously heeding Karl Marx' plea for workers to unite across national boundaries.
Barker: Bill Gates, Philanthropy, and Social Engineering? (Part 1 of 3)
Znet Article, July, 15 2008
Michael Barker
Barker's ZSpace page
Like many of the world’s richest businessmen Bill Gates believes in a special form of democracy, otherwise known as plutocracy, that is, “socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor”. Following in the footsteps of the robber barons, like Jo...
Mcgehee: Klein's Shock Doctrine
Blog Post, July, 07 2008
Michael Mcgehee
Mcgehee's ZSpace page
Klein's Shock Doctrine
