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Blog Post Some thoughts about KKE's dismal performance in the Greek General election, May 2012 based on a correspondence with a former KKE member and dear friend. -
- Tuesday, May 15, 2012
ZNet Article With the re-occupation of Plaça Catalunya, the movement in Barcelona once again finds itself on the front-line of a Global Spring of resistance ZNet Article An exchange of letters with a long standing comrade on the poor performance of KKE in the May 6th Greek General Election. Blog Post The Caterpillar workers of IAM Lodge 851 did not go on strike May 1 on a careless whim. They clearly believe they can win against a viciously anti-union company. ZNet Article "For Velupillai Prabhakaran, his dharma as he saw it, was to engage in battle. But Velupillai Prabhakaran was no sun god. Neither was the LTTE without its failings. Nevertheless, Velupillai Prabhakaran will live in the hearts and minds of generati... -
- Sunday, May 13, 2012
Blog Post USDA and DOJ held antitrust hearings around the nation. The results are poor. Congress gutted the proposed revisions. We must call for the Obama Administration and Congress to support the 11 antitrust measures that were recently excluded by Con... ZNet Article Individualist libertarians (like the Libertarian Party, Rand Paul, or Ron Paul) in America typically oppose unions on the basis that they constrain the liberties of individual firms to freely act on the market. However, this individual “freedom” ... ZNet Article My dangerous idea for the class of 2012 is that Green Capitalism is a howlingly, preposterous, oxymoron Blog Post The Farm Bill is being written right now. The biggest issues of economic justice are those of the Commodity Title. This blog contains some key talking points to address the biggest issues and most common misunderstandings of the farm bill. ZNet Article For me, Jiddu Krishnamurthy will always be the essential gnana yogi, the man who denied that he was a messiah but who spoke and wrote for more than fifty years thereafter, to ever growing audiences and who insisted to the end:
"No man from out... Blog Post It is impossible to care about the world until we can actually begin to "feel" the experience of others and understand our own present insensibilities. Blog Post It is impossible to care about the world until we can actually begin to "feel" the experience of others and understand our own present insensibilities. ZNet Article A short introduction to defining capitalism as a system -
- Saturday, May 12, 2012
ZNet Article Marriage equality has been brought out by the Obama Administration as an issue this campaign year. Early May 2012, Vice President Joe Biden said that he felt "absolutely comfortable" with marriage equality, and was seconded by Secretary of Educat... -
- Friday, May 11, 2012
Blog Post ExxonMobil, with all its massive resources, is unwilling to allow a safety provision to be implmented at a major refinery in Baton Rouge. ZNet Article Scott Walker's allies are taking his anti-worker game plan and bringing it to the private sector ZNet Article Budget Chair Paul Ryan's plan to exempt the foreign profit centers of US-based firms would have disastrous results for both tax revenues and for US jobs Blog Post Revenue Insurance was included in the 2008 Farm Bill in a major way, in the ACRE Program and also in SURE. Now, as the 2012 Farm Bill is being debated and introduced into Congress, Revenue Insurance represents the main direction of further change... Blog Post The biggest issues in the US farm bill, both domestically and globally, are those of the Commodity Title. Historically these are multitrillion dollar market management issues, hugely affecting sustainability, (crop rotations,) farm income, food p... Blog Post The biggest issues in the US farm bill, both domestically and globally, are those of the Commodity Title. Historically these are multitrillion dollar market management issues, hugely affecting sustainability, (crop rotations,) farm income, food p... Video The film was made forty years ago. Where is our appreciation for the ecology of this planet? -
- Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Blog Post The general election as seen from Samos and more on the state's attack on refugees and migrant workers in Athens. -
- Tuesday, May 08, 2012
ZNet Article Armed Resistance & the Law - a Case Study of Sri Lanka - Tamil Eelam Conflict Blog Post Counterpunch Drops Bill Blum ZNet Article Against the economic sanctions and threat of war on Iran - All Sustainer Articles...
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Blog Post A plea for organization... Blog Post Some thoughts about KKE's dismal performance in the Greek General election, May 2012 based on a correspondence with a former KKE member and dear friend. -
- Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Blog Post The Caterpillar workers of IAM Lodge 851 did not go on strike May 1 on a careless whim. They clearly believe they can win against a viciously anti-union company. -
- Sunday, May 13, 2012
Blog Post USDA and DOJ held antitrust hearings around the nation. The results are poor. Congress gutted the proposed revisions. We must call for the Obama Administration and Congress to support the 11 antitrust measures that were recently excluded by Con... Blog Post The Farm Bill is being written right now. The biggest issues of economic justice are those of the Commodity Title. This blog contains some key talking points to address the biggest issues and most common misunderstandings of the farm bill. Blog Post It is impossible to care about the world until we can actually begin to "feel" the experience of others and understand our own present insensibilities. Blog Post It is impossible to care about the world until we can actually begin to "feel" the experience of others and understand our own present insensibilities. -
- Friday, May 11, 2012
Blog Post ExxonMobil, with all its massive resources, is unwilling to allow a safety provision to be implmented at a major refinery in Baton Rouge. Blog Post Revenue Insurance was included in the 2008 Farm Bill in a major way, in the ACRE Program and also in SURE. Now, as the 2012 Farm Bill is being debated and introduced into Congress, Revenue Insurance represents the main direction of further change... Blog Post The biggest issues in the US farm bill, both domestically and globally, are those of the Commodity Title. Historically these are multitrillion dollar market management issues, hugely affecting sustainability, (crop rotations,) farm income, food p... - All Sustainer Blogs
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- Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Forum Post Gosh, you'd think the troika would immediately convert Greek loans to low-interest eurobonds, bring in a package of reforms designed to reduce tax evasion and unemployment while "Germany" and co. would immediately commit to economic ... Forum Post I'll just pitch in then: corporations are hoarding cash because, what with all the unemployed, there's no demand. Why stick your neck out? Productivity continues to increase, which, because the economy's not actually growing (1.7% does... -
- Monday, May 14, 2012
Forum Post The "first past the post" system is the most widely used electoral system in the world. Canada's current government holds an absolute majority after winning less than 40% of the popular vote; an earlier majority was elected with 38.5... Forum Post To build a boat you just have to write down the specs.
But, what are the specs of Utopia?
A utopia está lá no horizonte.
Me aproximo dois passos,
ela se afasta dois passos.
Caminho dez passos e o
horizonte corre dez passos.
Po... Forum Post My compliments to John Feffer for writing an article with a very clever hook. This could be the new paradigm among economic thinkers -- "Copernicans" versus "Ptolemains".
I'll take this opportunity to plug my contrib... Forum Post
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Gunfire erupted at a Venezuelan prison on Tuesday, prompting National Guard troops to use tear gas as they sought to take back control from armed inmates.
Venezuela's government is trying to close La Planta ... Forum Post
ribbon unfurls in the colors of the Venezuelan flag, while a drum roll announces the show’s title sequence and a trumpet tootles. Block-letter words pop up on the screen: “humanity,” “struggle,” “sociali... - All Sustainer Comments
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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
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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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