Michael Leon Guerrero, Movement Vision Lab. July 24, 2008. Free market capitalism in the United States is by no means "free." It's time we recognize this and move past the destructive neoliberal agenda.
Slavoj Zizek, In These Times. June 27, 2008. After the social tumult of the '60s capitalism usurped resistance itself, turning attempts at subversion into commodities.
Walden Bello, The Nation. May 23, 2008. In the years preceding Mexico's tortilla crisis, the country had been converted to a corn-importer by the IMF, the World Bank and Washington.
Stan Cox, AlterNet. April 28, 2008. As long as an investing class makes all major environmental decisions, no new sources of energy will replace even one barrel or ton of fossil fuel.
Jessica Hoffmann, make/shift. April 4, 2008. It's time for white feminists to challenge their own privilege, listen to all voices and take on the issues that matter.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. March 1, 2008. What does it say about our society when women can make more money doing sex work than in most other professions? Our readers weigh in.
Walden Bello, Foreign Policy in Focus. February 25, 2008. Yes, global capitalism may be resilient. But it looks like its options are increasingly limited.
Oliver James, Comment Is Free. January 3, 2008. The growth in greedy consumerism over the past 20 years is taking a heavy toll on the mental health of English-speaking nations.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. December 2, 2007. Klien, author of "The Shock Doctrine" joins Keith Olbermann on "Countdown" to discuss the phenomenon of "disaster capitalism" and how it applies to Iraq.
Terrence McNally, AlterNet. November 28, 2007. Americans are split between wanting low prices and opposing the corporate behaviors that make them possible.
Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. October 15, 2007. Klein, author of "The Shock Doctrine", talks with Bill Maher about her belief that corporations and politicians who seek a horrific national disaster to advance their idealogical, privatization agenda.
Robert B. Reich, Alfred A. Knopf. September 26, 2007. The awkward truth is that most of us are two minds: As consumers and investors we want the great deals. As citizens we don't like many of the social consequences that flow from them.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. September 25, 2007. Naomi Klein goes head to head with Alan Greenspan on the Iraq war, Bush's tax cuts, economic populism, crony capitalism and more.
Jan Frel, AlterNet. September 21, 2007. In Europe and Canada debate is raging about Naomi Klein's new book on disaster capitalism, The Shock Doctrine. This interview with Klein considers why U.S. public debate is unable to ask fundamental questions about our economic system.
Kelpie Wilson, TruthOut.org. August 3, 2007. If the Live Earth concerts are to continue, they ought to evolve to serve the transformation not just away from consumer society but toward a culture where we dance and sing and find our bling in things that are healthy for us and the planet.
David Morris, AlterNet. January 5, 2007. In his new book Capitalism 3.0, Peter Barnes writes that the costs of our current capitalist system are clear: inequality, stressful lives and a dwindling financial safety net. But how do we revise such a complex system?
