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Forum Post Albert: Re: Global Square

Forum Post, March, 11 2012 Michael Albert
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Hi... I read about Global Square just like you. I honestly don't know anything more about it. No, we have been getting this ready for quite sometime, not knowing about that at all - and I guess vice versa, too...not sure. How alike or differ...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Re: Re: other political communities

Forum Post, March, 09 2012 Michael Albert
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Facebook also has lots of left content - much more left than this material - but that doesn't make it a great place, a good place, or even an acceptable place for left strategizing, socializing, etc. That it is good to contribute on such broad...

Forum Post Albert: Re: other political communities

Forum Post, March, 09 2012 Michael Albert
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Hi - I looked at the items you linked... they didn't seem to me to be remotely like what we are building... much less specifically for the left and under left auspices - and thus adaptable to the needs of the left, etc.  I guess others wi...

Video Albert: Faceleft: Social Media and Us

Video, March, 07 2012 Michael Albert
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Interview on the left and social media...including Facebook and Z Social

Forum Post Albert: Re: Re: Re: Japanese Book

Forum Post, March, 03 2012 Michael Albert
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> He links to a Japanese translation of Bob Black's The Abolition of Work, and also covers the 'Primitivists'(John Zerzan) criticism. With all respect, that stuff is nonsense, being gentle about it...so very sad if he likes it... ...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Japanese Book

Forum Post, March, 02 2012 Michael Albert
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Toshimaru Ogura's review of Parecon. He is responding to an Anti-Capitalism Even at the World Social Forum. I haven't read the entire piece, one long paragraph is about how your councils aren't new, so it's a shame he's only re...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Japanese Book

Forum Post, March, 02 2012 Michael Albert
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The book Parecon us the most widely translated - but I can't remember if there was a version in Japanese. I am pretty sure there was supposed to be - but don't know if it ever really happened. Obviously I would love for it to happen - and ...

Commentary Shiva: Imposed Austerity vs Chosen Simplicity: Who Will Pay For Which Adjustments?

Commentary, March, 01 2012 Vandana Shiva
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Forced austerity makes the poor and working families pay for the excesses of limitless greed and accumulation by the super rich

Forum Post Albert: Re: Slogan's vs Analysis

Forum Post, March, 01 2012 Michael Albert
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Hello Justin, I hope we can agree that for anything we say or do, the issue is, what is the impact on our efforts to win change - and ultimately a new society. There are certainly things we say and or do that have a different basis and different...

Znet Article Dabashi: On Syria: Where the Left is right and the Right is wrong

Znet Article, February, 29 2012 Hamid Dabashi
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Both the Left and the Right in Syria are "statists" - power hungry, reaching to gain control of the state apparatus

Commentary Bond: When State- And Market-Climate Failures Are Amplified By Society-Failure

Commentary, February, 28 2012 Patrick Bond
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Advocating a risky market fix to a massive market failure under circumstances of widespread market melt, is the latest version of state failure

Znet Article Cook: The Myth of Israel's Liberal Supreme Court Exposed

Znet Article, February, 24 2012 Jonathan Cook
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Palestinians, both in the Occupied Territories and inside Israel, will pay the biggest and most immediate costs of the new decisions

Znet Article Blum: US Military and CIA Interventions Since WW II

Znet Article, February, 23 2012 William Blum
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Graphic representation of US interventions since WW II

Znet Article Bello: Urgently Needed: Transparency in US-Philippine Relations

Znet Article, February, 17 2012 Walden Bello
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Washington’s two-point agenda in the Philippines is no secret: to contain China’s ascent to power and refocus its war on terror to South East Asia

Znet Article Bond: ‘Global Sustainability’ Wilts In South Africa’s Political Hot Air

Znet Article, February, 16 2012 Patrick Bond
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Under conditions of neoliberal nationalism, the outcome of most public policy in South Africa is inevitably crony capitalism rife with corruption

Forum Post Albert: Re: Final Comment

Forum Post, February, 13 2012 Michael Albert
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Keith - I don't think we are getting far - we agree about many of the criticisms - we disagree about how to formulate them and who they apply to... let's leave it unless there is something I wrote in my initial piece that actually want to ...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Re: Re: In Support of Nonviolence

Forum Post, February, 13 2012 Michael Albert
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We have done it to death on Z - debates, essays, etc. But you are right, this kicked it off again. And that is good. My own suspicioin is that taking empty buildings and putting them to good ends can be quite viable. But you need a large enough s...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Re: Re: Non Violence Or?

Forum Post, February, 13 2012 Michael Albert
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I think you are right about the absense of structure and agreements - it is deadly... and understandably so. 

Forum Post Albert: Re: Non Violence Or?

Forum Post, February, 13 2012 Michael Albert
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HI, I actually answered yesterday - but it seems it isn't here...very odd. The internet!   > First off it would be interesting to consider the violence of the Adavasi gorillas ("Maoists") that Arundhati lived with and ...

Znet Article Shiva: The Seed Emergency: The Threat to Food and Democracy

Znet Article, February, 12 2012 Vandana Shiva
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Patenting seeds has led to a farming and food crisis – and huge profits for US biotechnology corporations.

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