Archive | Commentary

  • I’m Going to Stay Right Here: The Story of an Oaxacan Movement Prisoner

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  • The Real Costs of Executives’ Money Grabs

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  • The Death Penalty in a Poshlust Culture of Victims

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  • The Phenomenal Form of Contemporary Social Movements: An Interview with Georgy Katsiaficas

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  • Cuba Stands Firm

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  • Golem Song: A Conversation with Marc Estrin

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  • Is Cosatu Playing with the Devil?Investigating the AFL-CIO and Its Solidarity Center

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  • The World Is Worth Fighting For: The Legacy of Joe Strummer

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  • Ways of Denial

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  • One Unified African People:An Interview with Obi Egbuna

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  • Sacco and Vanzetti

    “If it had not been for this thing, I might have lived out my life talking at street corners to scorning men.  I might have died, unmarked, unknown, a failure.  Now we are not a failure.  This is our career and our triumph.  Never in our full life can we hope to do such work […]

  • Net Neutrality — A Cosmic Battle for Democracy

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  • To US Leaders: About China, Be Careful What You Wish For

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  • Where We Are Headed [Hacia dónde vamos]

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  • A “Québécois Nation”? Harper Fuels an Important Debate

    The House of Commons voted on November 27 to support a Tory government motion that “the Québécois form a nation within a united Canada.”  What does it mean?  And why now? The second question is easier to answer.  The motion was triggered by an unexpected turn of events.  Michael Ignatieff, in his quest for the […]

  • I Just Sent a Check to MRZine — and Why You Should, Too

    I just got out my checkbook and wrote a check to MRZine.  Mine was for $100.  That’s twice as much as I gave last year at this time.  And I want you to do the same thing.  Make the check for more than that if you are able to.  Or, if writing checks is not […]

  • Afghanistan: Bush’s Other War

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  • The Bebop of Baraka: A Review of Tales of the Out & the Gone

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  • Up against the Nonprofit Industrial Complex in New Orleans

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  • “It’s My Party, and I’ll Cry If I Want to”: Chavez Moves Forward

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