Gar Alperovitz is the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative. He is the author of the forthcoming book What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution (Chelsea Green, May Day 2013). Reposting this from Truthout. With Americans’ interest in […]
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The Question of Socialism (and Beyond!) Is About to Open Up in These United States
16th April 2013 – 12:58
Dying vet’s ‘fuck you’ letter to George Bush & Dick Cheney needs to be read by every American
20th March 2013 – 11:14
To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From: Tomas Young I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds […]
International Human Rights Day Celebrated in Sierra Leone
12th December 2012 – 14:18
Every year the celebration of International Human Rights day observed on 10th December provides the opportunity to raise global awareness on human rights issues. As a national human rights institution, the Human Rights Commission Sierra Leone (HRCSL) in collaboration with its local and international partners, joined hands to celebrates this day with the theme ‘Inclusion […]
Capitalism’s fiction laid bare: Will the Cyprus crisis trigger a revolution?
The Mediterranean island of Cyprus is the epicenter of an epic shitstorm… This is a guest post from Charles Hugh Smith. His newest book is Why Things Are Falling Apart and What We Can Do About It The deposit-confiscation “bailout” of Cyprus reveals much about the Eurozone’s fundamental neocolonial, neofeudal structure. At long last, Europe’s […]