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Blog Post We Canadians would be nuts to Ignore Dean Baker’s Warning About Our Housing Bubble
Blog Post There is massive talk about Crop Insurance in the Farm Bill, but very little valid analysis. Few concerned advocates have ever read any valid analysis. This seeks to fill that void, by explaining the primary misunderstandings. -
- Sunday, Jun 16, 2013
Blog Post Governor Andrew Cuomo's "Tax-Free NY" scheme represents a dramatic breakthrough in providing corporate welfare at the expense of public higher education and other public services ZNet Article US defense planning has been increasingly concerned by the risk of civil unrest triggered by catastrophic events linked to climate change, energy shocks or economic crisis -
- Saturday, Jun 15, 2013
Video This video version of the essay "Financial Totalitarianism: The Economic, Political, Social and Cultural Rule of Speculative Capital" explains the idea of "financialization" as an economic, political, social and cultural phenomenon. Blog Post Does Reuters shill for Corporations that sell Baby Formula in Venezuela?
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- Friday, Jun 14, 2013
ZNet Article This essay describes the meaning of the idea of "financialization" as an economic, political, social and cultural phenomenon which entrenches and exacerbates capitalist power and requires radical solutions. Blog Post Debating a BBC journalist about ComRes poll on Iraq War deaths
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- Thursday, Jun 13, 2013
ZNet Article This story first appeared in the SpeakOut section of Truthout. ZNet Article This story details Cindy Sheehan's stop in Chicago on June 3 as part of her Tour de Peace ride across the US. The demonstrations were held to show solidarity with Bradley Manning, whose court martial trial began the same day. The article first app... -
- Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013
Video A report and interview with Manish Kunjam, General Secretary of the Adivasi Mahasabha, from their march for tribal autonomy on March 9, 2013, in Dantewada ZNet Article This article is about the Plan and mission to transform the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) into a "hospitable investment environment." Blog Post Never before seen? Here are US maps of net farm bill impacts on various states: Value Changes (ie. historical reductions since 1942-1952,) + Farm Commodity Subsidies = Net Impacts. There are 3 kinds of maps: 10 commodity crops, dairy, and the com... ZNet Article This article details the 500-plus person demonstration against Monsanto that took place at the company's headquarters in the St. Louis area as part of the global March Against Monsanto on May 25. The story was first posted May 28 at Toward Freedom. Blog Post Les Roberts on the ComRes “Iraqi Death Toll Survey” released May 29, 2013
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- Tuesday, Jun 11, 2013
Blog Post Reuters’ Fake “Clarification” to an article on Venezuela
Blog Post A BBC “Watchdog” who embraces sleeping rather than barking -
- Monday, Jun 10, 2013
ZNet Article The article aims to give some background concerning the Gezi Park resistence, the biggest civil disobediance movement in Turkey's history. -
- Thursday, Jun 06, 2013
Blog Post A plea for new thinking about welfare from the perspective of the poorest and most marginalised. Blog Post Discusses industrialism as a transition period between monarchal feudalism and the emerging oligarchic neo-feudalism. -
- Wednesday, Jun 05, 2013
Blog Post This was originally a three part post on the Welsh Labour Grassroots blog. It is an attempt to relate the current level and types of resistance in the UK and Europe with the possibilities of transformation. It addresses the left debate on types of... ZNet Article It appears that when it comes to war crimes only soldiers get prosecuted. Not their commanding officers. -
- Tuesday, Jun 04, 2013
ZNet Article It is the same story everywhere in the world. Increasing state repression against protesters -
- Monday, Jun 03, 2013
Video The June 2013 episode of Chicago Independent Television features segments on protests against the Keystone XL pipeline, biotech food, and a proposed Koch Brothers' buyout of the Tribune's newspapers. Plus, voices from Mayday 2013. Blog Post Further accounts of the situation facing refugees living in central Athens, Greece highlighting a rich network of solidarity and mutual support. Raises questions for the Left and its general absence from the day to day struggles of the refugees. - All Sustainer Articles...
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Blog Post We Canadians would be nuts to Ignore Dean Baker’s Warning About Our Housing Bubble
Blog Post There is massive talk about Crop Insurance in the Farm Bill, but very little valid analysis. Few concerned advocates have ever read any valid analysis. This seeks to fill that void, by explaining the primary misunderstandings. Blog Post List of expert testimony opposing the West arming Syrian rebels -
- Sunday, Jun 16, 2013
Blog Post Governor Andrew Cuomo's "Tax-Free NY" scheme represents a dramatic breakthrough in providing corporate welfare at the expense of public higher education and other public services -
- Saturday, Jun 15, 2013
Blog Post Does Reuters shill for Corporations that sell Baby Formula in Venezuela?
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- Friday, Jun 14, 2013
Blog Post Debating a BBC journalist about ComRes poll on Iraq War deaths
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- Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013
Blog Post Never before seen? Here are US maps of net farm bill impacts on various states: Value Changes (ie. historical reductions since 1942-1952,) + Farm Commodity Subsidies = Net Impacts. There are 3 kinds of maps: 10 commodity crops, dairy, and the com... Blog Post Les Roberts on the ComRes “Iraqi Death Toll Survey” released May 29, 2013
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- Tuesday, Jun 11, 2013
Blog Post Reuters’ Fake “Clarification” to an article on Venezuela
Blog Post Green Time TV
Politics and Environment
Politics pervades every aspect of environmental activities, from relations between nations to governmental financial decisions to personal behavior. July 2013 Green Time TV explores government claims of... - All Sustainer Blogs
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Forum Post In Quebec the student protest has been contained with the election of a "pseudo left" government (in a minority context)last september who is now playing big capital's game for the most part of it's reign, although education fees hikes have been c... -
- Sunday, Jun 16, 2013
Forum Post http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOzWcpl_b0w Forum Post Thank you.. please read also my second article that I will send soon Forum Post makes me wonder if obama isn't just a liar, but a fucking idiot as well
or if human life, the quality of human life, just does not compute
or does not figure in the calculus of the realpolitik of the moment
perhaps he's been too well insul... Forum Post I think Chomsky said it best whe he noted that as far as foreign policy is concerned, Obama is the same as the second term of G.W Bush II, in some cases even worse. As Chomsky says, he wasn't hopeful right from the beginning. And not just base... -
- Friday, Jun 14, 2013
Forum Post The Obama administration's perfidy here should occasion zero surprise. Look, for example, at Glenn Greenwald's April 2009 essay on the then early Obama White House's nauseating Orwellian response to a civil libertarian laws... Forum Post Of course I agree about much of what you say - such as the need to describe and show alternatives, etc. - but -
The article is overwhelmingly not about the broad public. It is about people who see and understand the conditions all around us... - All Sustainer Comments
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- Thursday, Oct 30, 2008
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- Sunday, Dec 16, 2007
Film Review Trying to figure out this new interface. Probably should have used What Would Jesus Buy, but what's done is done. - All Sustainer's Film Reviews
Sustainer's Book Reviews
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- Sunday, Apr 17, 2011
Book Review Book Review of "The Shape of the Beast" by Arundhati Roy. -
- Monday, Feb 07, 2011
Book Review A book review of Andrej Grubacic's "Don't Mourn, Balkanize!" -
- Tuesday, Nov 02, 2010
Book Review A Review of Wobblies & Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History, by Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic. -
- Thursday, Oct 07, 2010
Book Review This book is a really valuable instrument for activist willing to learn about economics.
It is simply the most empowering book on economics since Robin Hahnel's ABC's of Political Economy (2002)... and also really entertaining, in Chang's very own... -
- Friday, Jun 11, 2010
Book Review A brief review of Scmhidt and van der Walt's "Black Flame": a book that situates the anarchist tradition in the broader socialist movement. -
- Sunday, Nov 01, 2009
Book Review A look into Lebanon's past and the quest to transcend humanity's self-imposed injustice -
- Thursday, Oct 29, 2009
Book Review In Ursula K. Le Guin's short story, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," the science fiction author details a world "much like that of a fine new coat"”that is wholesome and lovely along its exterior folds, made from a nice factory in Elsewhere; - All Sustainer's Book Reviews
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