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- Saturday, May 26, 2012
ZNet Article Throughout history, social movements around the world have been faced with an eternal and seemingly intractable dilemma: how to bring about lasting social change? Blog Post There are real international security problems, and some entity should be addressing them. But is NATO the proper entity? Blog Post Wales has an Assembly and Welsh Government with powers devolved from the UK Parliament. Labour control the Welsh Government and have won control of many of Welsh local authorities in recent elections. This article suggests how this renewed politic... -
- Friday, May 25, 2012
Blog Post Fariborz Raeis Dana a renowned progressive Economist and member of Iranian Writers’ Association’s executive committee was summoned to Geisha prescient of Tehran on Monday morning, 23 May, arrested there and sent directly to Evin prison to carry ou... Blog Post Ongoing observations of life under austerity on the island of Samos in particular and Greece more generally. Book Life in Northern Cyprus -
- Thursday, May 24, 2012
ZNet Article Interview on the evolution and future prospects of the 15M movement Blog Post Seniors, people with disabilities and health care workers blocked the front entrance to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange(CME) on Wednesday, May 23 around 9:30 am, as well the adjacent Jackson and LaSalle Streets. -
- Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Blog Post Duscussion on priorities for IOPS members during the interim phase. -
- Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Book Impressions of North Cyprus Blog Post Note to George Monbiot regarding his latest smear of Chomsky, Znet and others ZNet Article Modern day slavery continues to exist in Florida -
- Monday, May 21, 2012
ZNet Article Analysing the new wave of protests sweeping Moscow, longtime Russian activist and Marxist historian Alexei Gusev sees a new revolutionary period opening for Russia. ZNet Article The Chicago NATO protests highlight just how tense and repressive the political landscape has become. Every social protest in every American city now is met with a massive, militarized police mobilization. Indeed, how skittish and insecure the mon... -
- Saturday, May 19, 2012
Blog Post First hand accounts of big demos in Moscow by Alexei and Julia Guseva indicate rising opposition, while the Putin regime seems clueless. -
- Thursday, May 17, 2012
ZNet Article "...the denial by international actors of their conflicting strategic interests in Sri Lanka draws a veil over the real issues that any meaningful conflict resolution process in the island will need to address. We cannot ostrich like bury our coll... ZNet Article "..Where propaganda 'does not have anything to do with truth', that which you propagate may lose credibility and you may cease to influence. Where you seek blind support, you may end only with blind supporters. The so called pragmatic approach ma... Graphic "Friedman speaking. Stop all production of PARECOMIC, recall all shipments, wire every Social Science department in the country, and hurry!" -
- Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Blog Post The Republican politician has yet to show initiatives that are his own, not those of his donors. 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... - All Sustainer Articles...
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- Saturday, May 26, 2012
Blog Post There are real international security problems, and some entity should be addressing them. But is NATO the proper entity? Blog Post Wales has an Assembly and Welsh Government with powers devolved from the UK Parliament. Labour control the Welsh Government and have won control of many of Welsh local authorities in recent elections. This article suggests how this renewed politic... -
- Friday, May 25, 2012
Blog Post Fariborz Raeis Dana a renowned progressive Economist and member of Iranian Writers’ Association’s executive committee was summoned to Geisha prescient of Tehran on Monday morning, 23 May, arrested there and sent directly to Evin prison to carry ou... Blog Post Ongoing observations of life under austerity on the island of Samos in particular and Greece more generally. Blog Post About George Monbiot’s “My fight may be hopeless, but it is as necessary as ever” (The Guardian, May 22), here is one important rejoinder which I’ve been meaning to take-up since the commentary first appeared, but am just getting around to now. -
- Thursday, May 24, 2012
Blog Post Seniors, people with disabilities and health care workers blocked the front entrance to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange(CME) on Wednesday, May 23 around 9:30 am, as well the adjacent Jackson and LaSalle Streets. -
- Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Blog Post Duscussion on priorities for IOPS members during the interim phase. -
- Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Blog Post Note to George Monbiot regarding his latest smear of Chomsky, Znet and others Blog Post There is just something about British left intellectuals. Christopher Hitchens fell from grace when he allowed his atheism to become a tool for Western imperialism. Now The Guardian UK's George Monbiot has pulled a Hitchens by allowing his outrage... -
- Saturday, May 19, 2012
Blog Post First hand accounts of big demos in Moscow by Alexei and Julia Guseva indicate rising opposition, while the Putin regime seems clueless. - All Sustainer Blogs
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Forum Post Understood and agreed. The idea that we should allot "decision making power to the degree that each is affected" is a good organizing principle, but difficult to implement as it entails a lot of agreement about who is involved and ... -
- Saturday, May 26, 2012
Forum Post Thanks for your comments.
I agree with you regarding the protection of minorities. Any decision making body (work place or OWS type assemblies) should protect its minorities by giving it special prerogatives. However, if by minority we mean thos... Forum Post Thanks David and Stephen for posting your conversation. I found David's comments about the nature of consensus to be insightful because the problem he mentions(ie - that of a minority holding a the majority hostage). This is ... -
- Friday, May 25, 2012
Forum Post Michael
The problem with most British Left Intellectuals is that went to either Oxford or Cambridge Universities; home of the Elite. It is difficult to see how one could leave such an institute with radical priorities still intact.
Noam Chomsky ... -
- Thursday, May 24, 2012
Forum Post ...was a mess in the draft that appeared this morning so just shortened and re-wrote it. Apologies to any readers thrown off by that bad beginning; please give it another try now! Forum Post In every other area we seek to promote peace by endless escalation in the quantity and destructiveness of weapons, so why not in international relations? For example, in high schools we seek to reduce violence by arming the students. In our cou... Forum Post "Dismantle the system of production for profit rather than production for use." Must change profit motive! Yes! Got it! Thank you! Chomsky always on point with that. 19:51 pretty much breaks down why changing profit motive will be ... - All Sustainer Comments
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- Thursday, Oct 30, 2008
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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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