Scarcity of What and for Whom?
December 1, 2004
Mark Hudson is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oregon in Eugene, specializing in the political economy of the environment. � � Michael Perelman, The Perverse Economy: The Impact… READ MORE
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Notes from the Editors, November 2004
by The Editors
November 1, 2004
» Notes from the Editors � What was the principal motive for the U.S. invasion of Iraq? Few informed observers now believe that it was to eliminate Iraqi weapons of mass… READ MORE
Ecology, Capitalism, and the Socialization of Nature: An Interview with John Bellamy Foster
November 1, 2004
Dennis Soron is a researcher with the Neoliberal Globalism and Its Challengers Project at the University of Alberta, where he also teaches part-time in the sociology department.This interview was conducted… READ MORE
U.S. Imperialism, Europe, and the Middle East
November 1, 2004
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. His recent books include Obsolescent Capitalism: Contemporary Politics and Global Disorder (Zed Books, 2004) and The Liberal Virus:… READ MORE
After the Referendum: Venezuela Faces New Challenges
November 1, 2004
Marta Harnecker is director of the Centro de Investigaciones Memoria Popular Latinoamericana (MEPLA) in Havana, Cuba, an organization for research on the history of popular movements in Latin America. She… READ MORE
The Greening of Venezuela
November 1, 2004
David Raby is a research fellow at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Latin American Studies.This essay originally appeared as “Shanties into Ploughshares” on the Red Pepper Web site. With… READ MORE
The Disciplinary Apparatus of Welfare Reform
November 1, 2004
Janine Fitzgerald teaches sociology at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. In 1996 President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), to end “welfare as we… READ MORE
Five O’clock, January 2003
November 1, 2004
Tonight as cargoes of my young�fellow countrymen and women are being hauled�into positions aimed at death, positions�they who did not will it suddenly�have to assume�I am thinking of Ed Azevedo�half-awake… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 2004
October 1, 2004
For more than a decade now the major corporate media and the U.S. government have been celebrating the growing “democratization” of Latin America. Rather than reflecting a genuine concern with… READ MORE
Farewell, Comrade Paul
October 1, 2004
This eulogy was read by Robert W. McChesney at a memorial meeting for Paul M. Sweezy on April 17, 2004, in New York City. � —The Editors � � If… READ MORE