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Albert: Gloves Off
Blog Post, July, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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I guess I am all out of patience and running dry on civility as well. Is it unreasonable to want to know where the left stands regarding capitalism and “other worlds”? Are various movements, institutions, media outlets, and constituencies anti-ca...
Chomsky: An Independent Iraq
Blog Post, July, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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For what it's worth, polls in Iraq reveal very considerable and apparently growing support for withdrawal of the US occupying army, apart from the Kurdish regions. That doesn't mean withdrawal tomorrow. No one is talking about that, and it isn't...
Chomsky: Peak Oil Theory
Blog Post, July, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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The basic theory is incontrovertible. The only questions have to do with timing and cost. ... The date can be pushed back much farther if more costly (or maybe some to-be-discovered improved) technology is used. As for the estimates of cost, by r...
Chomsky: Iran's Threat
Blog Post, July, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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The sharp increase in focus on Iran's alleged threat (nuclear weapons, connections to terror, etc.) is very clear. ... The same has been true with regard to Syria (including last December's "Syria Accountability Act" passed almost unanimously in ...
Chomsky: Invading Cuba
Blog Post, July, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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Cuba was officially regarded as a security threat to the US until 1998, and when the Pentagon decided that maybe the US could survive a Cuban assault, the Clinton administration insisted that the threat must be defined as "negligible," but still r...
Chomsky: The Wall and Israel's Aims
Blog Post, July, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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If the goal were security, Israel would have built the fence a few km inside its borders. It could then be a mile high, patrolled on both sides by the IDF, mined with nuclear weapons, utterly impenetrable. Perfect security. The problem would be ...
Chomsky: Classified Documents
Blog Post, July, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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The scheduled release of declassified documents in the official State Department history is 30 years. In practice it is a bit longer, about 35 years or so usually. Of course, not everything is declassified. Sometimes it turns out on independent ...
Albert: The Reagan Phenomena
Blog Post, June, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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What the hell? Reagan, one of the least popular presidents, one of the dumbest presidents, and one of the most morally vile preseidents in American history (which is saying a whole lot) is celebrated in death like no other president since Kennedy ...
Albert: Interview for Polish Outlet
Blog Post, June, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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I was recently interviewed for Polish publication about matters of media manipulation, etc. 1) Recently I've realised that very important thing in Poland is special kind of censorship. Its dangerous because most people are not aware of this. Befo...
Albert: New Organization?
Blog Post, June, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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Assuming we all fight for social change in the expectation that we will, at some point, win -- and assuming that we fight for a whole new social system, again, in the expectation that at some point we will win -- it follows that at some point ther...
Albert: Parecon and Society -- chapters
Blog Post, June, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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This is a list of possible chapters for a book on p[arecon and society. What others topics might be of interest? Supposing you could read anyone writing on any of these or other topics, whose views would you be interested in? Parecon and Polity ...
Albert: Parecon and Society: Education
Blog Post, June, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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This is a draft of a possible chapter, giving a broad idea of what they might be like...again, only a draft. Parecon and Education Part of education is intrinsic and oriented to the individual. To think about education starting with the student...
Albert: Parecon and Society: Parecon Overview
Blog Post, June, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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This would be an opening chapter of this possible new book, summarizing parecon itself. Remember, these are merely drafts I am sharing in the blog...looking for some reactions. Parecon: An Overview Participatory economics, or parecon for short,...
Albert: Parecon and Society: Possible Intro
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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I am thinking about the possibility of a new book perhaps entitled Parecon and Society. It would be about what having a parecon would mean for the rest of society, beyond the economy. I am curious if people think such a book would be useful. I am ...
Albert: Replying to a Review
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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Recently I got an email telling me about a review of a book of mine, Looking Forward (SEP 1991) linked on the theory page of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review (http://www.syndicalist.org/theory/parecon1.shtml) I read it and was rather surprised by some o...
Albert: Economics and Parecon
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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A second interview for Polish publication... 1) Many economists, for example L. Mises and other austrian economists, think that private ownership of means of production is a necessity. They argue that without private ownership of means of product...
Albert: Market Madness
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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I was asked to do an email interview by a friend from Poland, for publication there, dealing with a rising tide of market ideology among Polish economists. Since it bears on issues of parecon, I thought I might as well convey it here, as well... ...
Albert: Answering a Comment
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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In general, I cannot pledge I will relate to all comments, even all questions, posted to the blogs. There is only so much time available. However.... One of the comments I found said I "seem to start with a basic split between Producers and Cons...
Chomsky: India Today
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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It's important to bear in mind that there are two quite different Indias. There is the high tech India in Hyderabad, which Thomas Friedman raves about in his odes to "globalization" -- meaning, the neoliberal version of investor-rights-based int...
Chomsky: Turkey in the World
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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Turkey's human rights record has been awful, though it has been improving, as commentators routinely point out. But that overlooks a rather important fact: Turkey's crimes against its own population, particularly Kurds, rely crucially on (1) massi...
