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On June 15, three months after the NATO bombing of Libya began, the African Union presented to the U.N. Security Council the African position on the attack – in reality, bombing by their traditional imperial aggressors: France and Britain, joined by the U.S., which initially coordinated the assault, and marginally some other nations. 
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Recently we have seen quite a bit reporting about a reengagement of the Obama Administration in East Asia and actions that are perceived as an effort to encircle and contain China. Most notable is the agreement to deploy 2,500 US Marines in Darwin announced during President Obama’s November visit to Australia. Well certainly reading through the New York Times you might think that the United States has surrounded China. But there is plenty of evidence that it is in fact the United States that is increasingly isolated from the world. We find increasingly that it is the United States that is difficult to get visas for entry and the United States that is isolated in the international community."
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"I am a very strong supporter of the emerging markets and creating a new international fund. The fact is that money is with the emerging markets. The economies of the BRIC are larger than the industrial countries that formed World Bank in 1944. The emerging economies, the BRIC need to come together to form a global institution," said Stiglitz while addressing a programme here."
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Protesters Dorli Rainey, Jonnie Marbles, Dan Mathews, Camila Vallejo and Sherab Tsedor talk about the day they stood out from the crowd.
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Noam Chomsky on Occupy Wall Street protests http://t.co/4N096Zmi...
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It started out as a place to protest about inequality but now there’s concern the Occupy Wellington site has been hijacked by the homeless and even holidaymakers.
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Contributions of Samir Amin on Monthly Review
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“Contemporary capitalism is a capitalism of generalized monopolies. By this I mean that monopolies are now no longer islands (albeit important) in a sea of other still relatively autonomous companies, but are an integrated system. Therefore, these monopolies now tightly control all the systems of production. Small and medium enterprises, and even the large corporations that are not strictly speaking oligopolies are locked in a network of control put in place by the monopolies. Their degree of autonomy has shrunk to the point that they are nothing more than subcontractors of the monopolies.”
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Michael Moore comes out swinging at President Obama at a Tavis Smiley forum on poverty in America.
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Democracy NOW! DN! - Michael Parenti is a longtime political analyst and author of twenty books, including Democracy for the Few and Super Patriotism. Parent...
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István Mészáros, Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, volume 1: The Social Determination of Method (Monthly Review Press, 2010), £20, and Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, volume 2: The Dialectic of ...
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The first priority of activists in the Global North, who are not persuaded in the least by the antiquated directives issued forth by the likes of Fuentes, should continue to be to oppose imperialist intervention of any sort in the determination of the Bolivian process. This means, concretely, opposition under any circumstances to imperialist-backed destabilisation campaigns against Morales. But the political situation is too complicated to end our discussion at that stage.
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"If the Occupy movement is to succeed this year, it needs to become more diverse. The movement is predominantly composed of white, low-income and middle-class individuals who are protesting to denounce corporate greed. Feeling frustrated due to the inequities in our economic system, activists have led months of protests throughout the United States."
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"It’s true that no one movement or cause is solely responsible for the birth of Occupy Wall Street, and protesters list an impressive spectrum of issues and events that inspired them to get involved in OWS, ranging from the Arab Spring to tuition debt to the corrupt political system. However, US Uncut was definitely at the forefront of framing the “99 percent” narrative seized upon by Occupy. Except, back then, US Uncut referred to America’s woes as being “The Corporations versus Everyone Else.”
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/04/04/Slavoj_Zizek_Catastrophic_But_Not_Serious Philosopher Slavoj Zizek argues environmentally conscious consumers ar...
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Recorded at Professor Chomsky's office on December 06, 2011.
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Many, including myself, believe that removal of the fuel subsidy is not even the most critical issue that affects us. The most important issue that must be tackled is corruption. Needless to emphasise that corruption hinders development in all sectors of our economy. Unfortunately, it is currently driven or condoned by political office holders including the President, Governors and friends of President Jonathan’s administration. Without a true sustained fight against corruption, Nigeria will not grow beyond its current state.
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Occupy D.C. deserves sustained attention.
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"This report includes updates from Occupy sites and related efforts across the country and the globe. It includes big wins, local organizing efforts, protests/events, police activity reports and calls to action where additional support from allies/general public may be needed."
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Occupy created the space, but, you and I created Occupy by being, and participating. There is no Occupy. Occupy is a brand. I do not mean this in a negative way. Not at all. I mean that the people are the force behind Occupy. You do not have to maintain a camp ground and tents to prove its existence.
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In our view, the autonomous organization of the movement and a politics based on radical demands have to go hand in hand if durable transformations are to be achieved. Once an expansive politics of the commons is adopted as the centerpiece of the movement’s strategy, demands become tactical devices in the service of such strategy rather than floating signifiers power can use to divide and conquer. From this perspective, every attempt the state makes to co-opt the movement through concessions enables an expansion of the communal management of common-pool resources—setting in motion institutional transformations whose political and symbolic power should not be underestimated.
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Four hundred and seventy-six companies with $2.27 billion in annual revenue are certified now as B corporations, a designation given to businesses that meet environmental, governance and social criteria by the not-for-profit B Lab.
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Our fact-checking revealed that empirical estimates of energy rebound cited by the Breakthrough Institute are over-estimated or wrong, and they contradict the technological reality of energy efficiency gains observed in many industrial sectors.
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