Source: The Media Co-op The Globe and Mail really outdid themselves today. With the help of a writer named Jeremy Torobin, they took their journalism to the level of the commentary they once specialized in […]
Source: Venezuelanalysis.com Movements for LGBTI rights in the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) met yesterday to form a sexual diversity council. Other movements and grassroots organisations in the revolutionary pole have also formed women’s, youth, and […]
(IPS) – Social movements from several countries accused Brazil’s Vale, the world’s second largest mining company, of causing serious environmental and social damage, as well as the deaths of 15 workers in labour accidents between […]
Source: NACLA Writing for The New York Times’ Economix blog on March 15, Simon Johnson, a former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), provides a well-argued defense of populism. He challenges those who […]
(IPS) – A criminal lawsuit against 1,500 former members of DINA, the secret police of Chile’s 1973-1990 dictatorship, is seeking to shed light on the most active player in the repression, which stretched outside the […]
Source: Science & Society, April 2012, Vol. 76, No. 2, pages 270-276 Michael Lebowitz has drawn on the diverse experiences that led to the failure of socialism in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and elsewhere, and […]
While the Colombian government’s armed assault against the affected populations of the Quimbo Hydroelectric Project have ceased, the movement against the dam has not dried out. If anything the very River and Earth that the […]
Source: The Guardian, Comment Is Free In taking back oil and gas company YPF, Argentina’s state is reversing past mistakes. Europe is in no position to be outraged. The Argentinian government’s decision to renationalise the oil […]
(IPS) – Biodiversity and small and medium farms are threatened in Mexico by the looming approval of a reform of the law on plant varieties that will extend patent rights over seeds, activists and experts […]
Pay the Polluter $800 Million? Source: Friends of the Earth “There is a silent epidemic here. The effects on the children are not easily visible, but they have all kinds of serious health problems, and […]
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