Michael Albert

When we have a movement that desires a participatory society, a society that has a participatory economy and that also has participatory kinship, feminism, participatory culture, communalism, and a participatory political system, when we have a movement that has a shared agreement about what it is f

Participatory economics, or parecon for short, is a classless economic system that serves as an alternative to capitalism, market socialism, and centrally planned economies.

What can leftists learn from Chavez's UN speech and its aftermath? That the U.S. is the world's most egregious rogue state. We already knew that and, in fact, so does most everyone else.

The anti corporate globalization movement - the movement that is not against global relationships but that is against greed and injustice in international relations and that is for internationalism in their place, seems to me, and I am told to many activists here in Korea as well, to have come to a

Regarding judging the American populace, even before noting the manipulation of perceptions that accompanies U.S. elections, it does not make sense for us to act as though the country is inhabited by amoral, self seeking vultures

Even the New York Times was forced to admit it, after the mammoth Feb. 15-16 demonstrations: "there may still be two superpowers on the planet: the United States and world public opinion."

The logic of trade is simple. Suppose I can make wheat better than steel and you can make steel better than wheat. If I then focus on wheat and you focus on steel, we can trade together to exploit our respective talents to each do better than if we didn't trade.

No one has much clarity, as yet, about today's events. In coming days we will have both coverage and analysis. We know a little, only, at this time.

The U.S. response to September 11 seeks to benefit elites in the U.S., and, to a lesser degree, around the world. There are various goals.