That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital..

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities ….

In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child for the World Ban….

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know..

Capitalism would self-destruct in no time. So the business classes have always demanded strong, straight intervention to protect the society from the….

Nicaragua was destabilizing Central America, meaning moving in a direction the US didn't like. So Nicaragua was crushed..

Peter Kropotkin was surely on the left. He was one of the founders of what is now called 'sociobiology' or 'evolutionary psychology' with his book Mu….

There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist about the w….

Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans..

Let's take Pravda in the 1980s. I mean you could have read things in Pravda saying that it was a stupid error to invade Afghanistan: "it was a dumb t….

The neoliberal programs of the last generation have in fact been, and were intended to be, a pretty serious attack on democracy, but also they've led….

I am not offering this is a critique of the internet, its just that there are a lot of factors involved. It does offer plenty of possibilities. It al….

Venezuela is independent. It's diversifying its exports to a limited extent, instead of just being dependent on exports to the United States. And it'….

For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade..

There is always room for Gramsci's "optimism of the will.".

Wikileaks is a democratizing force. Its giving individuals access to decisions and thinking by their representatives and in a democracy that ought to….

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich..

Andorrans deserve much better than the rule of superstitious hysterics and extreme authoritarians, who try to instill obedience to their Holy Texts a….

A person who issues that charge that someone adheres to the principle "do as I say, not as I do" has three options: produce an example; withdraw the ….

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society..

Starting with [Ronald] Regan it became quite open, the attack on unions. It wasn't the Pinkertons anymore, but it was just not applying the laws..