Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has sh...
DemocracyNow.org - As President Obama prepares to outline a deficit-reduction plan that includes tax increases, as well as cuts to programs such as Medicare ...
Source: Daniel Dorling, University of Sheffield/ Barclays; Britain's highest paid accountant earned £2.9m last year, the top paid lawyer pulled in over £3m and the highest paid Chief Executive £7.4m. Sources: Accountancy Age ...
Questions from Audience and answers by Noam Chomsky after his talk, Unipolar Moment, Culture of Imperialism. After that Q and A session, by accident, is more...
Questions from Audience and answers by Noam Chomsky after his talk, Unipolar Moment, Culture of Imperialism. After that Q and A session, by accident, is more...
The most infuriating aspect of recent political history is the way in which the old regime has reasserted itself so quickly. There is little doubt that the downside of neo-liberalism has been demonstrated in spectacular fashion. What is the response? Neo-liberalism.
January 9, 2012; Source: LexisNexis News (New Statesman) | In the recent past, some conservative critics have railed against nonprofits as the partners of government in an enterprise to move the (@npquarterly this (
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The liberal concern with challenging concentrated authority makes it a natural partner for social democrats; attempts to achieve this marriage have fallen short when economic power is neglected, but the unparalleled influence of corporate elites today...
On 15 May 2010, Elio Sayago, a revolutionary activist with a long history of struggle, was named worker-president of CVG Alcasa by [Venezuelan President Hugo] Chavez, with the explicit order to implement Worker Control and the Socialist Guyana Plan.
Police have made nearly 2,000 arrests related to the Occupy Wall Street movement, and a picture began to emerge Monday of how the most common of those cases—disorderly conduct—will proceed through the criminal justice system.
Increasingly the commons is and will be the core of value creation, but value is still essentially captured by market economy, and netarchical capital is the fraction of capital which understands that change and want to profit from it. This means they have both to enable and empower social production, but also subject it to their own control, so that they can capture the value that is generated. The first part forces them to a certain type of strategic behaviour that fosters sharing, while the second requirement forces them to maintain a general context of continued dominance. This is in essence the new social tension of the emerging p2p age, between communities of peer producers and the platform owners. The key for peer producers is to gain control of their own livelihoods and social reproduction, and in my view this can best be done by creating their own cooperative/corporate vehicles, which I call, following Neil Stephenson in the Diamond Age and the lasindias.net suggestions, "Phyllis", i.e. community-supportive entities that allow commoners to sustain their work in the commons, and to subtract it from the mainstream economy of profit-maximization.
Part of a new, yearlong arts and education initiative in Chicago, a benefit performance of “The People Speak, Live!” produced by Voices of a People’s History takes place at Metro, Tuesday, January 31st, 2012.
"I finally finished this book after reading it on and off for months. First, I'll say this is a very unsettling book. By this, I mean it makes you think again about things you thought you knew already, and can't be easily assimilated into an existing worldview. For that reason alone, it's worth reading."
Have you asked yourself how you might support the Occupy Movement? As a young occupier suggested to me, 'This is so not over' and you older folks need to get yourselves educated and out of the way because 'the shift is about to hit the fan!
With the crisis of the eurozone raging and no solution in sight Alan Thornett examines how the whole European project was driven from the outset by big business; how the contradictions which threaten to destroy the Eurozone today have been [...]...
Karl Polanyi's magnum opus The Great Transformation is complicated, hard to read and quite frankly, badly written. The author assumes a great deal of pre – existing knowledge on the reader's part and his prose is often ...
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