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Noam Chomsky: Militarizing Latin America

Noam Chomsky September 9, 2009 Noam Chomsky

The United States was founded as an “infant empire,” in the words of George Washington. The conquest of the national territory was a grand imperial venture. From the earliest days, control over the hemisphere was a critical goal.

Latin America has retained its primacy in U.S. global planning. If the United States cannot control Latin America, it cannot expect “to achieve a successful order elsewhere in the world,” observed President Richard M. Nixon’s National Security Council in 1971, when Washington was considering the overthrow of Salvador Allende’s government in Chile. read more

The Angola 3: Black Panther Political Prisoners in the US

Angola 3 News September 9, 2009 Angola 3 News

Thirty seven years ago, deep in rural Louisiana, three young black men were silenced for trying to expose continued segregation, systematic corruption, and horrific abuse in the biggest prison in the US, an 18,000-acre former slave plantation called Angola. Peaceful, non-violent protest in the form of hunger and work strikes organized by inmates, caught the attention of Louisiana's first black elected legislators and local media in the early 1970s.

The Virtues of Deglobalization

Walden Bello September 8, 2009 Walden Bello

The current global downturn, the worst since the Great Depression 70 years ago, pounded the last nail into the coffin of globalization. Already beleaguered by evidence that showed global poverty and inequality increasing, even as most poor countries experienced little or no economic growth, globalization has been terminally discredited in the last two years. As the much-heralded process of financial and trade interdependence went into reverse, it became the transmission belt not of prosperity but of economic crisis and collapse.

Mondragón Worker-Cooperatives Decide How to Ride Out a Downturn

Georgia Kelly and Shaula Massena September 1, 2009 Georgia Kelly and Shaula Massena

Mondragón Co-op Grocery Store

The Mondragón Cooperative Corporation (MCC), the largest consortium of worker-owned companies, has developed a different way of doing business-a way that puts workers, not shareholders, first.

Uganda: Carbon Trading Scheme Pushing People Off Their Land

Wambi Michael August 31, 2009 Wambi Michael

Benet Girl at Work

With the world's attention focused on climate change, one of the methods suggested to reduce global carbon emissions is causing the displacement of indigenous persons as western companies rush to invest in tree-planting projects in developing countries.

Reclaiming a Continent: Latin American Experiments in Democracy

Benjamin Dangl August 25, 2009 Benjamin Dangl

Reclaiming Latin America: Experiments in Radical Social Democracy provides an in depth and accessible introduction to Latin American politics for people seeking to understand this past tumultuous and hopeful decade. While avoiding superficial analysis and simplistic leftist cheerleading, this book addresses the complexity and diversity of the new Latin American left.