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Inside Occupy Wall Street: Journalist-Participant Describes What Life Is Really Like (Complicated and Inspiring) at Zuccotti Park

Kristen Gwynne, AlterNet. October 11, 2011.

AlterNet reporter Gwynne experiences the life, culture, politics and challenges at Occupy Wall Street in NYC and finds an exciting, inspiring model for inclusion and change.

Julian Assange on Why Calls for His Death and the McCarthyesque Crackdown on WikiLeaks Are Good Signs

Amy Goodman, Julian Assange, Slavoj Zizek, Democracy Now!. July 5, 2011.

Assange and renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek discuss the release of the largest trove of classified U.S. government records in history.

Slavoj Zizek: Why Far Right and Xenophobic Politicians Are on the Rise in Europe

Amy Goodman, Slavoj Zizek, Democracy Now!. October 27, 2010.

Zizek: I really am worried about how the far right is setting the general political agenda, even while being in the minority.

How Corporations Make Profits by Associating Themselves with Charitable Causes

Slavoj Zizek, AlterNet. September 4, 2010.

Companies like Starbucks have figured out that they can make more money by attaching their profits to causes that people care about.

'Most Dangerous Philosopher in the West' Has Speech Cut Short By Bomb Threat in NYC

Jan Frel, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. October 15, 2009.

Slavoj Zizek's book tour gets a serious interruption at Cooper Union.

The Big Outcome of the '60s: The Triumph of Capitalism

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.