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Halimi: The America Not Made For You And Me
Znet Article, March, 15 2006
Serge Halimi
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Robert Greenwald's documentary, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (1), opens in a huge room packed with shareholders attending the company's annual meeting. They greet the CEO, H Lee Scott, with an ovation as he takes the podium. He tells them...
Albert: Still Uncomprehending...
Znet Article, March, 15 2006
Michael Albert
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Schweickart's reply to my reply gives me a gigantic mound o...
Wetzel: Workers' Liberation and Institutions of Self-Management
Znet Article, February, 27 2006
Tom Wetzel
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We live under a system with a series of oppressions woven together: domination and exploitation of workers by elite classes of owners, managers and professionals; a system of gender inequality that disadvantages women; a racial hierarchy that plac...
Albert: Critique Without Comprehension
Znet Article, February, 24 2006
Michael Albert
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For The review this essay replies to Please see Schweickart: Nonsense On Stilts Parecon Phe...
Chomsky: Korea and International Affairs
Znet Article, February, 22 2006
Noam Chomsky
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SUN WOO LEE: How is your health? NOAM CHOMSKY: I am fine, as you can see. SUN WOO LEE: Is there any recent issue of interest related to Korea which you have been following? NOAM CHOMSKY: Korea is playing a very significant role in world affa...
Hepburn: Creating An Ecological, Worker Run Co-operative
Znet Article, February, 16 2006
John Hepburn
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Since 1998, Reverse Garbage Co-op has been diverting re-useable materials away from landfills and making them available at low cost to the local community. It has an annual turnover of around $300,000 per annum, employs 5-6 people, and is financia...
Monbiot: Smoke Rings
Znet Article, February, 08 2006
George Monbiot
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Three weeks ago, while looking for something else, I came across one of the most extraordinary documents I have ever read. It relates to an organisation called Arise, which stands for Associates for Research into the Science of Enjoyment. Though l...
Leopold: Enron
Znet Article, February, 01 2006
Jason Leopold
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Opening arguments in the long-awaited criminal trial of former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay and company president Jeffrey Skilling is expected to start soon now that a jury has been selected for the case. For many people familiar with the high-fl...
Albert: Anti Capitalist Strategy
Znet Article, January, 26 2006
Michael Albert
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A viable and desirable strategy for transcending capitalism will certainly include leaving capitalism behind. Capitalism is despicable. It will also include, however, attaining something worthwhile in capitalism's place. What we win must be de...
Scipes: Labor Rights: If Unions Won't Fight for Them, Then What Good are Unions?
Znet Article, December, 17 2005
Kim Scipes
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On December 10th, International Human Rights Day, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney pointed out that, "For all practical purposes, Americans have lost the freedom to form unions." Accordingly, the AFL-CIO and its allies engaged in a series of protest...
Albert: Venezuela's Path
Znet Article, November, 06 2005
Michael Albert
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Going to Venezuela? There are beautiful waterfalls and mountains. There is rich surf, sand, and sun. But nowadays the biggest attraction is revolution. This October I spent a week in Caracas. That's not much information to work with but for what ...
Albert: Interview with Michael Albert
Znet Article, October, 10 2005
Michael Albert
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AttacD-AWWO: Can you say something about the process, the discussion that lead to Parecon (participatory economics) and the book that is now also appearing in German translation this fall? Michael Albert: Sure. It was a long process. It started o...
Sandronsky: The Hiring Crisis for America's Black Teens
Znet Article, October, 06 2005
Seth Sandronsky
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The Hiring Crisis for America's Black Teens
Monbiot: Protesters as Criminals
Znet Article, October, 04 2005
George Monbiot
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"We are trying to fight 21st-century crime - antisocial behaviour, drug-dealing, binge drinking, organised crime - with 19th-century methods as if we still lived in the time of Dickens". Tony Blair, 27th September 2005.(1) "Down poured the wine l...
Davis: The Struggle Over The Future Of New Orleans
Znet Article, September, 21 2005
Mike Davis
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THE CATASTROPHE on the Gulf Coast was the most widely anticipated “natural disaster†in U.S. history. Yet the response of the U.S. government was universally condemned as a failure. What happened? HURRICANE KATRINA occurred on the ...
Albert: Hannover Talk
Znet Article, September, 12 2005
Michael Albert
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Introduction First, I’d like to thank everyone here and especially the ...
Albert: Business As Usual
Znet Article, September, 03 2005
Michael Albert
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The growing outrage over the willful ignoring of warnings and overt cutting of local expenditures that paved the way for New Orleans’ disaster is of course valid. The growing outrage over the unavailability of resources spent on immoral ...
Bacon: Unions At War
Znet Article, August, 11 2005
David Bacon
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - In Chicago's cavernous Navy Yard convention center, delegates were lined up at the four microphones scattered across the floor. San Francisco's Nancy Wohlforth stood at mic number 2. She'd been waiting for this moment for two y...
Albert: Exploring Parecon
Znet Article, July, 25 2005
Michael Albert
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In a world riddled with suicide bombings, inconclusive conflicts, and terribly selfish politics, it is a relief to see there are people like Michael Albert creatively searching for salves for the ills in our economic system. With his books "Movin...
Fletcher jr.: Labor Needs a Hard Left Turn
Znet Article, July, 23 2005
Bill Fletcher jr.
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Bill Fletcher is president of TransAfrica, a national policy organization in Washington dealing with issues surrounding Africa. After the reform administration of John Sweeney was elected in 1995, Fletcher became the labor federation's director of...
