Zapatista Code Red

December 20, 2007

Ten years after the massacre of indigenous people in Chiapas, Zapatistas are reading signs that the Mexican government is poised for another wave of repression.

Guns Beat Green: The Market Has Spoken

November 29, 2007

If you're looking for a sure bet in the new growth market, sell solar and buy surveillance. Forget wind, buy weapons.

Latin America's Shock Resistance

November 8, 2007

Recent events in the region show how societies can recover from extreme capitalism.

Rapture Rescue 911: Disaster Response for the Chosen

November 1, 2007

Gone are the days of equal protection. Intense natural disasters like the California wildfires are being met with a new model: privatized disaster response.

Greenspan and the Myth of the True Believer

September 27, 2007

His autobiography sheds light on what motivates hard-right political leaders to apply brutal economic shock therapy.

The Shock Doctrine

September 18, 2007

In this VideoNation report, Nation columnist Naomi Klein explains how after 9/11 the Bush Administration launched a new security economy, driven by the notion of an endless war against an undefined evil.

Big Brother Democracy

August 23, 2007

Protesters in Quebec were treated like contestants in a reality show--put in a field and watched on TV monitors.

Argentina: Where Jobless Run Factories

July 16, 2007

Almost entirely under the media radar, unemployed workers here are taking over bankrupt businesses and reopening them under democratic management.

Laboratory for a Fortressed World

June 14, 2007

Gaza is in chaos, but Israel's economy is booming as high-tech entrepreneurs scramble to meet the post-9/11 world's hunger for spy tools and containment walls.

Baghdad Burns, Calgary Booms

May 31, 2007

The Iraq War has set off one of the largest oil booms in history--and the race to mine the tar sands of Alberta is heading toward environmental disaster.

Sacrificial Wolfie

May 1, 2007

The World Bank was corrupt long before Paul Wolfowitz gave his girlfriend a raise.

Class War in Conrad's Court

March 22, 2007

The jury selection for the trial of a Canadian press baron accused of looting shareholder earnings reveals popular discontent with the corporate elite.

A Trial for Thousands Denied Trial

February 26, 2007

As Jose Padilla's trial unfolds in Miami, the cruel methods of US interrogators are finally being put on trial.

Pay To Be Saved

August 29, 2006

Unless something changes soon, New Orleans will prove to be a glimpse of a dystopic future, a future of disaster apartheid in which the wealthy are saved and everyone else is left behind.

'Never Before!' Our Amnesiac Torture Debate

December 8, 2005

Does it lessen the horror to admit that this is not the first time the US government has used torture to wipe out political opponents? The exclusion of the impact of the School of the Americas on war crimes in El Salvador, Argentina and Panama from our current debate on torture is evidence of our collective amnesia.

The Threat of Hope in Latin America

November 2, 2005

Across Latin America indigenous movements redrawing the continent's political map, demanding not just "rights" but a reinvention of the state along deeply democratic lines.

GOP Opportunity Zone

September 23, 2005

Purging the Poor

September 22, 2005

Why are the poorest victims of Hurricane Katrina being kept out of perfectly livable homes?

Doing the Math

September 20, 2005

Let the People Rebuild New Orleans

September 8, 2005

Let the evacuees of New Orleans take the lead in determining how the billions of dollars in reconstruction funds are used to rebuild their lives and their city.

Terror's Greatest Recruitment Tool

August 11, 2005

Though many blame Britain's excessive tolerance for the recent terrorist attacks, the real problem is not too much multiculturalism but too little.

Aristide in Exile

July 14, 2005

Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide attributes his falling-out with Washington to a disagreement over privatization.

A Noose, Not a Bracelet

June 9, 2005

The people of Africa, not Western corporations, should benefit from Africa's resources.

Letters

June 8, 2005

Torture's Dirty Secret: It Works

May 12, 2005

When it comes to social control, nothing works quite like torture.

The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

April 14, 2005

Rebuilding is no longer the primary purpose of the reconstruction industry.

Letters

April 7, 2005

Can Democracy Survive Bush's Embrace?

March 9, 2005

Getting the Purple Finger

February 10, 2005

You Break It, You Pay For It

December 22, 2004

Kerry and the Gift of Impunity

November 24, 2004

Genuine impunity breeds a kind of delusional decadence.

Letters

November 3, 2004

Carlyle Covers Up

October 28, 2004

Have James Baker's business interests compromised his performance as debt envoy in Iraq?

James Baker's Double Life

October 12, 2004

Bush's special envoy has a private interest in Iraqi debt, documents reveal.

You Can't Bomb Beliefs

September 30, 2004

Progressives should oppose the US attack on Sadr, because it is an attack not on one man but on the possibility of Iraq's democratic future.

Bring Najaf to New York

August 26, 2004

Ditch the Distraction in Chief

July 29, 2004

Anybody but Bush. And then let's get back to work.

Shameless in Iraq

June 24, 2004

In the run-up to June 30th, US occupation powers have been unabashed in their efforts to steal money that is supposed to aid a war-ravaged people.

Mutiny in Iraq

April 29, 2004

Who will follow the Bush clan off this precipice, and who will refuse to jump?

Let's Make Enemies

April 1, 2004

Outsourcing the Friedman

March 4, 2004

Economic development will not come to Palestine via call centers but through liberation.

Hold Bush to His Lie

February 5, 2004

True democracy could still come to Iraq.

The Year of the Fake

January 8, 2004

Risky Business

December 18, 2003

Hanging with Halliburton at ReBuilding Iraq 2.

Letters

November 25, 2003

Bring Halliburton Home

November 6, 2003

Bush's AIDS Test

October 9, 2003

Free Trade Is War

September 11, 2003

The brutal economic model advanced by the World Trade Organization is itself a form of war.

Mutiny in Manila

August 14, 2003

Canada: Hippie Nation?

July 2, 2003

Canadians can't quite believe it: Suddenly, we're interesting.

Downsizing in Disguise

June 5, 2003

Paul Bremer has proved something of a gift when it comes to rolling out the red carpet for US multinationals.

Elections vs. Democracy in Argentina

May 8, 2003

Privatization in Disguise

April 10, 2003

By the time the Iraqi people have a say in choosing a government, the key economic decisions will have been made by their occupiers.

No Peace Without a Fight

March 13, 2003

In places where daily life is like war, the people who are confronting this brutality are the peace activists.

Letters

March 5, 2003

Venezuela's Media Coup

February 13, 2003

In the United States, unlike in Venezuela, the media and the government are on the same side.

The Rise of the Fortress Continent

January 16, 2003

We're seeing the emergence of a genuinely new New World Order.

The New Apartheid

November 26, 2002

Booby Traps at Rio + 10

August 29, 2002

The summit didn't fail because of anything that happened in Johannesburg. It failed because the entire process was booby-trapped from the start.

Signs of the Times

October 4, 2001

Protests aimed at powerful symbols of capitalism find themselves in a transformed landscape.

Game Over

September 17, 2001

A Fete for the End of the End of History

March 1, 2001

If Seattle was the coming-out party of a resistance movement, then Porto Alegre heralded the beginning of serious thinking about alternatives.

Cries in the Streets in LA

August 24, 2000

The Vision Thing

June 22, 2000

My Mafiaboy

February 23, 2000