Occupy Strategy: Global Strike and Consumer Boycott Should Be on the Agenda
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published, with the very same title, on December 8, 2011. At the time, no significant actions had been taken by Occupy in conjunction with labor movements to take on global capitalism with the peaceful, yet most effective tools of exploited workers: strike and consumer boycott by other citizens to […]
Axis of Death Penalty: China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and the United States
Who says the United States, Iran and North Korea cannot agree on anything? Most of us remember one of George W. Bush’s “classic” speeches in front of the United Nations when he defined Iran, Venezuela and North Korea as “the Axis of Evil”. In the case of the death penalty, however, the US, Iran and […]
G. Mercier on RT: Israel Attack on Gaza Is Worse Than a Crime, It’s a Blunder
Russia Today Interview of Gilbert Mercier, Editor in Chief of News Junkie Post On Friday, November 16, Gilbert Mercier, who has written the best analyses of the geopolitical situation unfolding in the Middle East, was called on to share his thoughts with RT International. Mercier has written a series of articles warning that the situation […]
India: Can Ecosocialism Protect Indigenous People from Capitalist Exploitation?
By Sutapa Chattopadhyay In developing nations, from the mid-20th century onwards, the state and global planners have sanctioned development through subjugation of the local poor. This is done by controlling and commodifying their space, and by centralizing and privatizing commonly held resources by forcibly disassociating the poor from their material bases and livelihoods in the […]
Will the Slaughter in Gaza Trigger a Real Arab Revolution?
Israel’s attack on Gaza: “C’est pire qu’un crime, c’est une faute.” The comment “C’est pire qu’un crime, c’est une faute!” (This is worse than a crime, it’s a mistake!), followed the execution of the Duc d’Enghien by Napoleon Bonaparte. Shortly thereafter, this was viewed by Napoleon’s own chief of police Fouché and French diplomat Talleyrand […]
