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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.

Forum Post Albert: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Provocateurs

Forum Post, February, 12 2012 Michael Albert
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Keith, Michael Albert said: “The idea that most of the black bloc is undercover is, I am sorry Keith, total nonsense.” > I never said that most of the black bloc is undercover, I said that “most of the “black bloc...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Provocateurs

Forum Post, February, 12 2012 Michael Albert
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I am not aware of anyone who says it can't - or doesn't happen here. There is a  very large difference between saying the state will infiltrate movements, and does, sometimes just to spy and later catch people - sometimes to literall...

Forum Post Albert: Re: In Support of Nonviolence

Forum Post, February, 12 2012 Michael Albert
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> This is a much needed discussion, and while Chris Hedges’ article may have had “fundamentalist” leanings it can be credited for bring to the forefront an important issue.  The sad thing is, I think, that what Chris did...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Lucid vision

Forum Post, February, 12 2012 Michael Albert
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You are too kind - but I appreciate it. Thank you.

Znet Article Albert: Violence Begets Defeat or Too Much Pacifism?

Znet Article, February, 10 2012 Michael Albert
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How do we evaluate matters of violence and non violence?

Forum Post Albert: Re: Re: Re: Provocateurs

Forum Post, February, 10 2012 Michael Albert
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The idea that most of the black bloc is undercover is, I am sorry Keith, total nonsense. Just as it was nonsense that most of the weathemen, or black panthers, or even sds were under cover, in my day - and perhaps it is your day, too. I helped or...

Znet Article Bello: Outsourcing and Stagnation in the Real Economy

Znet Article, February, 09 2012 Walden Bello
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Apple’s prowess at turning out products that capture the popular imagination has kept it from being tainted with the image of being a labor exporter

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