Stories by James Westcott
James Westcott lives in New York and writes on art and politics.
A reactionary backlash is transforming plans for the site of the World Trade Center into another version of Bush's "with us or against us" mentality.
Posted on Oct 1, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Do media representations of the Iraq war desensitize us to its atrocities, or will they lead to a real reckoning?
Posted on Aug 19, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The squalid mini-city states known as slums now house at least one billion people across the world, living outside normal regulations. As their ranks swell, some are saying that it's time to start thinking of them a little differently.
Posted on Feb 18, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Naomi Klein's documentary focuses on the worker-run factories in Argentina, which are filling the vacuum left by corrupt managers.
Posted on Oct 5, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping have been preaching the anti-consumerism word for five years -- are they getting any results? And what would the world look like if they did?
Posted on Dec 7, 2003, Source: AlterNet
