Treaty Like It’s 1999: Connecting the Dots on Trade
From Japan, on the expansion of the Trans-Pacific trade agreement and the homegrown battle to stop it.
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American Dystopia: Welcome to the 2012 Hunger Games
Source: TomDispatch.com
When I was growing up, I ate books for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and since I was constantly running out of reading material, I read everyone else’s — which for a girl with older brothers meant science fiction. The books were supposed to be about the future, but they always turned out to be very much about this very moment.
Some of them — Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land — were comically of their time: that novel’s vision of the good life seemed to owe an awful lot to the Playboy Mansion in its prime, only with telepathy and being nice added in. Frank Herbert’s Dune had similarly sixties social mores, but its vision of an intergalactic world of disciplined desert jihadis and a great game for the substance that made all long-distance transit possible is even more relevant now. Think: drug cartels meet the oil industry in the deep desert.
Occupying in Latin America: Social Movements Taking Over Land, Factories and Schools
While the Occupy Movement has taken the world by storm, a long history of different types of social movement occupations have marked Latin America for decades. What follows is an audio recording of a Left Forum panel dealing with this topic.
Inside Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution: An Interview with Pablo Navarrete
Venezuela’s ‘Bolivarian’ process is a noble experiment, which at its core is seeking to create a society where human needs are prioritized over corporate needs.
Occupying in Latin America: Social Movements Taking Over Land, Factories and Schools – A Left Forum Panel
While the Occupy Movement has taken the world by storm, a long history of different types of social movement occupations have marked Latin America for decades. Toward Freedom and Between the Lines Radio Newsmagazine have organized a panel on this topic for this year’s Left Forum.
Elliott Abrams’ Dark History in Latin America and the Struggle for Justice
Elliott Abrams, a former high level State Department official during the 1980s, testified recently that the Reagan administration knew that Argentina's military junta was systematically stealing babies from murdered and jailed democracy activists and giving them to right-wing families friendly to the regime.