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Local Dollars, Local Sense
Michael Shuman
What do you do if you are fortunate enough to have some extra money? Stuffit under your mattress? Invest in Wall Street? Put it in a bank? Forvarious reasons those may not be your best options. The economic crash andthe Occupy movement have widened the space for alternatives and newthinking. A once fledging choice, investing […]
Banks, Fraud & Looting
William Black
Bankers brought the world’s economy to the brink of collapse and then as the Occupy slogan says, “We got sold out, they got bailed out.” In many ways Goldman Sachs, one of the largest and most important investment banks, epitomizes all that is wrong with the economic system. Its CEO modestly announced that they were […]
Get Up, Stand Up
Michael Moore
Bob Marley sang this song, “Get up, stand up, stand up for your right Get up, stand up, don’t give up the fight You can fool some people sometimes But you can’t fool all the people all the time So now we see the light, we gonna stand up for our rights.” The Occupy movement […]
A New Economic Paradigm
Gar Alperovitz
When something doesn’t work you either get it fixed or replace it. Makes sense right? Take capitalism. It careens from crisis to crisis. It has systemic structural problems. The traditional remedies, such as legislative reform, don’t work or if they do they are soon outflanked by power brokers who know how to game the rules. […]
Ideology Over Reality
Thomas Frank
Ideology is a set of doctrines or beliefs that form the basis of a political and economic system. It can evolve in strange ways to the point where evidence and facts are not only irrelevant but are treated with scorn and derision. In its distorted form, its followers adopt rigid fundamentalist positions. Anyone who challenges […]
The Tax Code: Class Warfare
Richard Wolff
People dread taxes. The tax code is a labyrinth few citizens dare to enter save for the rich and powerful who hire lawyers and accountants to figure out ways to game the system. One corporation paid $26,000 a year to maintain a post office box in Bermuda as its legal HQs. That little trick saved […]
Edward Said Memorial Lecture 2011
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs Edward Said Memorial Lecture. Recorded at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Changing Contours of Global Order
Noam Chomsky
Speech given at the University of Deakin, Melbourne, Australia, November 4, 2011.
Revolutionary Pacifism: Choices and Prospects
Noam Chomsky
The speech was given upon the occasion of receiving the City of Sydney Peace Prize at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia on November 2, 2011. Chomsky gives an overview of the Anglosphere pre-1945 and post-1945. Recorded at the Sydney Opera House.
Kashmir: Buried Evidence
Angana Chatterji
Among the many issues plaguing South Asia, none is as violent and deeply contested as Kashmir. The major unresolved issue of the disastrous British partition of India in 1947, Kashmir has been the site of wars and the threat of wars, and probably the world’s longest and most extensive military occupation. India brooks no international […]
Unconventional Wisdom
Noam Chomsky
Conventional wisdom is a term one often hears. It is the generally accepted belief, opinion, or judgment, about a particular matter. In the U.S., the ruling political class and the media are major propagators of conventional wisdom. For example, when it comes to international law the U.S. exempts itself while holding its enemies to account. […]
Pakistan: A Journalist’s View
Beena Sarwar
For the casual observer of international news Pakistan must be enigmatic, bewildering and scary. It’s a “hornet’s nest,” declares The Economist. Almost from its inception in 1947 Pakistan has been dominated by the three As: Allah, Army and America. The country of some 200 million people has been ruled either by military dictators or corrupt […]

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