New book chronicles inner workings of Saipan's garment factories from first ever first-hand perspective of a former garment factory worker.

By ADAM TURL - February 19-21, 2010

Today the largest employer in the U.S. (and the world) is the anti-union behemoth Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart's 1.4 million U.S. "associates" often earn poverty or near poverty wages...It was during the economic crises of the 1970s and the right-wing "Reagan Revolution" of the 1980s that Wal-Mart first blossomed into a retail giant. As recession and free-market policies rolled back [previous working class] gains...Wal-Mart thrived [and]...reproduced the conditions of its origin as it spread outward from Arkansas through the South and Midwest.

Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV show featuring Raj Patel, who is a writer, activist and academic. He has degrees from the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics and Cornell University, has worked for the World Bank and WTO and been tear-gassed on four continents protesting against them.

By DANIEL DRENNAN - January 13, 2010

From an America that doesn't deserve him, Emory Douglas is coming to Beirut. For fifty dollars, one can enter an Art Center's hallowed halls and benefit from a workshop with the artist...Meanwhile, in a Lebanon that deserves him less, the Voices most in need of him remain outside, ever marginalized; waiting to be lifted, their song never heard.

Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV show, November 06, 2009, featuring Phavia Kujichagulia, a Griot/Djialli (Oral Historian), musician, writer, poet, dancer who utilizes music, poetry and dance to heal and reveal history -- was a professor of Ethnomusicology and African Civilizations at World College West and Stanford University’s Workshop on Political and Social Issues.

By BRUCE E. LEVINE - December 4-6, 2009

When people become broken, they cannot act on truths of injustice. Furthermore, when people have become broken, more truths about how they have been victimized can lead to shame about how they have allowed it. And shame, like fear, is one more psychological way we become even more broken.

By Murray Dobbin - October 22, 2009

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has tossed the Canadian taxpayer a ticking time bomb. Why? So that he can maintain the fiction that he is a good economic manager and win a majority in the next election...“Every single U.S. lender specializing in sub-prime has gone bankrupt. The largest sub-prime lender in the world is now the Canadian government.”

A Fundraiser for END:CIV (A film by Franklin López)

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS - Counterpunch

If Karl Marx and V. I. Lenin were alive today, they would be leading contenders for the Nobel Prize in economics...Their predictions are far superior to the “risk models” for which the Nobel Prize has been given and are closer to the money than the predictions of Federal Reserve chairmen, US Treasury secretaries, and Nobel economists...who believe that more credit and more debt are the solution to the economic crisis.

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS - September 23, 2009

Americans cannot get any truth out of their government about anything, the economy included. Americans are being driven into the ground economically, with one million school children now homeless, while Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke announces that the recession is over.

By Danielle Egan - 17 March 2008

The medical field is plagued with quality control problems..."Health care is a highly political game these days and 50 per cent of clinical trials are funded by [the pharmaceutical] industry...What has changed though is the extent to which Health Canada...[is] partnering with pharmacorps to do research...The client is no longer the public, it's the company paying the fees. It's now pretty clear that influences decision-making and ultimately public health...[T]he media underreports these governmental biases and conflicts of interest.["]

By Michael Fox - August 18, 2009

Despite a near universal international ban on exporting toxic or hazardous material...most...electronic waste from the United States ends up in China, India, Vietnam, or in up and coming African countries, like Ghana, and Nigeria..."[The U.S. government] believes that the fact that this stuff has commodity value is more important than the fact that it's very hazardous, or the fact that its illegal from the importing country's point of view..."

By Murray Dobbin - July 12, 2009

Convinced that "ordinary" people are incapable of radical change...too many left activists themselves retreat into a middle-class, consumer existence that they know deep down is not only unsustainable but deeply unsatisfying. We fight the good fight -- and then drive home, turn on the TV and watch the news report on a world that does not acknowledge our existence.

By Murray Dobbin - June 19, 2009

The magnitude of the moral crisis of the political right is staggering. The greed, dishonesty, hubris and psychopathic disregard for the public good renders the whole business elite utterly unfit to pronounce on anything -- not even on the economy, but certainly not democracy or how we run our collective affairs.

There is great concern in this country: growth is gone. The state maintains the necessity of a billion dollar government stimulus package so that the economy may start up again and make us happy with positive growth numbers. Its time for the question: what is growth and why is it so important?