We saw this type of Iraq-style disaster profiteering in New Orleans and you can expect to see a lot more of this in Haiti over the coming days, weeks and months. Private security companies are seeing big dollar signs in Haiti thanks in no small part to the media hype about “looters.” After Katrina,... »

We thank all the true friends of Haiti, in particular the Government and the people of South Africa for their solidarity with the victims of Haiti. The concrete action undertaken by Rescue South Africa and Gift of the Givers is a clear expression ofubuntu. Ubuntu ngumuntu ngabantu. As we all know, many people remain buried... »

Any large city in the world would have suffered extensive damage from an earthquake on the scale of the one that ravaged Haiti’s capital city on Tuesday afternoon, but it’s no accident that so much of Port-au-Prince now looks like a war zone. Much of the devastation wreaked by this latest and most calamitous... »

The emirate of Dubai has in the past few decades been more than a shiny example of glitzy capitalism and the insulation from the repercussions (and responsibilities) of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It has represented the type of political model which has been promoted to the Arabs, by their rulers and by the West. When George W... »

Wars don’t end when politicians or diplomats sign treaties or pacts. They fester and feed off unresolved issues and reemerge sometimes worse than before, and they sometimes return to the land that birthed them. »

In post-apartheid South Africa, social movements are using direct action to fight privatization, displacement and police brutality. In an interview with KPFA's "Against the Grain", the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign's Ashraf Cassiem talks about their work opposing neoliberalism on the ground, helping poor people to self-organize to fight eviction, turn back on water... »

If early news accounts are correct, President Barack Obama will send over 30,000 new troops into Afghanistan to support and defend one of the most corrupt governments on earth. He will do so in part because during the last US Presidential Election liberals, while opposing the ruinous and disastrous Iraq war, painted the Afghanistan... »

This was bound to be a big week in California regardless, as the threat of a 32 percent tuition and fee increase across the University of California system made a crashing entrance into reality with Wednesday’s vote by the UC Board of Regents. Perhaps the Regents and UC President Mark Yudof expected that their... »

I want to start with the present, go back to the past for a few moments, then return to the present and examine it again in the light of that past. Today, neozapatismo must be a central focus of any attempt to evaluate the question of possible autonomy. Not only has the Zapatista movement survived... »

WHAT do you get when you combine the worst economic downturn since the Depression with the first black president? A surge of white racial resentment, loosely disguised as a populist revolt. An article on the Fox News Web site has put forth the theory that health reform is a stealth version of reparations... »

Under Bush, immigrant communities lived in a constant state of fear. “Homeland Security” agents terrorized citizens and workers alike, arresting anyone who appeared Latino or lacked ID.  Families were separated, children left parentless, property abandoned, and long-lasting relationships severed. This scenario has changed only slightly under Obama, and some say for the worst.  Obama’s campaign promise of... »

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