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Albert: Routes To Economic Vision: Introduction
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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In advocating participatory economics, I invariably follow a particular and for me familiar logic that moves from preferred values to desirable institutions. This blog is for exploring, so here I'd like to try to come at economic vision from dif...
Albert: Welcome to Goodbye Maggie
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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This blog is for discussing economic vision, and particularly participatory economics. In deciding to set up some blogs within the rubric of ZNet, a little research suggested that titles should be creative. However, it is hard to do a creative t...
El saadawi: Unveilling
Znet Article, March, 08 2004
Nawal El saadawi
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CAIRO, Egypt (WOMENSENEWS)--The subject of this interview, Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, one of the most well-known feminists and political dissidents in the Arab world, was born in 1931 in Kafr Tahla, a small village north of Cairo. A psychiatrist by tr...
Albert: Poland Watch Parecon Interview
Znet Article, March, 05 2004
Michael Albert
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> 1) Effects of this what is now called 'globalisation' but should be rather called 'investors rights agreements' are very visible in Poland. For example, a few days ago the decision was made that Hundai will build new plants in Slovakia, not i...
Blum: If John Kerry Is The Answer, What Is The Question?
Znet Article, March, 03 2004
William Blum
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Of all the issues that the presidential campaign will revolve around, none is more important to me than foreign policy. I say this not because that is my area of specialty, but because the bombings, invasions, coups d'état, depleted uranium, and ...
Albert: The Nader Controversy
Commentary, February, 28 2004
Michael Albert
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Whenever a leftist runs for office there are various possible aims. For example:
Shiva: Super Highways
Znet Article, February, 19 2004
Vandana2 Shiva
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Super Highways
Shiva: The Suicide Economy Of Corporate Globalisation
Commentary, February, 19 2004
Vandana2 Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
The Indian peasantry, the largest body of surviving small farmers in the world, today faces a crisis of extinction.
Albert: Mumbai, WSF, and Our Futures
Znet Article, February, 09 2004
Michael Albert
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WSF 4 in Mumbai was a quite different experience than prior Porto Alegre WSFs. In many respects it was better organized. Women were far more visible, empowered, and empowering – often providing the most important as well as the best presen...
Albert: TINA!? And Getting There
Commentary, January, 30 2004
Michael Albert
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We all know lots of people who think Òthere is no alternativeÓ (TINA) to capitalism. And we all know that on the left it is now de rigour to emphasize the slogan Òanother world is possible.Ó Neither stance is an argument, however.
Albert: Reply to Steps Related Comments on Infohop
Znet Article, January, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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Reply to Steps Related Comments on Infohop
Bello: The Economics of Empire
Znet Article, January, 04 2004
Walden Bello
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In 1995, the World Trade Organization (WTO) was born. The nearly 20 trade agreements that underpinned the WTO were presented as a set of multilateral rules that would subject both the powerful and the weak to a common set of rules backed by an ef...
Landy: Questions for the Peace Movement, Part 2
Znet Article, December, 30 2003
Joanne Landy
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Back to Part I U.S. Troops Out Now Western imperialism and its retrograde opponents have a symbiotic relationship in which they mutually strengthen and reinforce one another. For example, by providing an anti-terroristrationale, the murderous a...
Landy: Questions for the Peace Movement
Znet Article, December, 30 2003
Joanne Landy
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On to Part II In February 2003, millions of people in the United States and around the world protested the impending U.S.-led war on Iraq. But today, even among opponents of the war, there is widespread confusion on the question of the ongoing o...
Albert: Albert Rejoinder to Monbiot 2
Znet Article, December, 28 2003
Michael Albert
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George… About your first point: A parecon is workers' and consumers' councils inside a country. Having a parecon would remove class differences, make incomes equitable, eliminate economic alienation, deliver economic self-management, atte...
Shiva: Towards A People Centred Fair Trade Agreement On Agriculture
Commentary, December, 24 2003
Vandana2 Shiva
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The collapse of the Cancun W.T.O. Ministerial was to a large extent due to the blatant unfairness of the rules of the Agreement on Agriculture which is killing farmers, killing biodiversity, killing fair and just distribution and killing food secu...
Albert: Albert Reply to Monbiot 2
Znet Article, December, 23 2003
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
George, I think we have in many respects similar international aims. Our differences have mostly to do with our methods and what other goals we seek. I think you (at least for the moment) assume that markets, private ownership, ...
Albert: Albert Refoinder 1
Znet Article, December, 20 2003
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
George, Your first question: "But what if [some] people affected by [its] decisions are not members of [that] community?" Suppose I am thinking about my consumption. I decide on some of this, some of that, up to my expected budget. If all my st...
Albert: Albert Reply to Monbiot - 1
Znet Article, December, 18 2003
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
George, I agree with you that without global democracy national democracy is hamstrung (though it is nonetheless quite different to have free elections, free speech, etc., than to have death squads and dictators). For me globalization means rewri...
Albert: Revolution Based on Reason Not Faith or Fantasy
Znet Article, December, 18 2003
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Imagine a biologist announces that cancer is forever so we should stop trying to cure it. Given the imp...
