Haitian Renaissance: Youth Paint a New Country
Direct Action in Hard Times: Activist Strategies from Brazil to Wisconsin
People in the US are looking to South America for inspiration in occupying homes and factories.
Egypt: Obama Must Keep the Promises Made in Cairo Speech
Now is the time for Western leaders to recognize the tide of history and come out strongly in support of the Egyptian revolution.
Outside the Logic of the State: Dancing with Dynamite in Latin America
Dancing with Dynamite is a daring, you could say “explosive,” little book, and it stands out in a big way from other volumes on the subject. It offers a glimpse of what we might find beyond the crisis that has paralyzed us.
How the Farm Lobby Distorts U.S. Foreign Policy
Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
Thanks to the hard work of the U.S. Farm Lobby, America’s love of cheap food has stretched more than an engorged waistline. It now stretches the limits of American foreign policy.
Over the past century, the Farm Lobby’s influence on the U.S. government has increased alongside the consolidation and growth of U.S. agribusinesses, the principle recipients of federal farm subsidies. The redistribution of taxpayer dollars to American agribusinesses not only creates artificially cheap global prices, it also continues to undermine the development of agrarian-oriented economies throughout the world.
Utopian Communities in Europe
The future is not what it used to be. Our Utopian imagination has atrophied in the stifling atmosphere of apocalyptic predictions: a climate catastrophe, energy shortages, mass extinctions, economic meltdowns, resource wars and intensifying social injustice.