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Foreign Policy in Focus - A Think Tank Without Walls
progressive think tank, one of the few leftist ones in the US, with articles on many aspects of international politics
Jump Cut no. 50
new issue of Jump Cut now online: Arab, Latin American, and Chinese media; arthouse and European film; Hollywood, U.S. television and independent video; horror film; audio podcasting. 33 new essays.
Michael Chanan
online essays by a major writer on documentary and on music; specialist also in Latin American cinema
Ten Dispatches About Place | Orion magazine
great short essay by John Berger, including a discussion of why still be a marxist.
MRZine.org
Monthly Review is a long-established left journal. Here is its online site. Highly recommended.
The Shock Doctrine: Milton Friedman’s Hold and The People’s Hopeful Resistance - CommonDreams.org
Jane Smiley on Naomi Klein's book, good summary of important thesis
Linda Hall writes on Katha Pollitt's new book, Learning to Drive. | By genre | Guardian Unlimited Books
I love this book's rage, honesty, and perfect prose; denounces pretentious left academic men of my generation; also Pollitt's wry look at herself and other women is witty and skewers our illusions and defenses
Power, passion, and neoliberalism - Transnational Institute
"The Shock Doctrine emerges as a towering work, one that brilliantly follows neoliberalism's march from marginal theology to universal policy. "
Selected Articles and Papers of Douglas Kellner (Available Online)
not only are the articles wonderful but example of what all academics should do, make all their work available free online; also check out Kellner's web site and blog; early media scholar to set up an extensive web site
AT&T Class Action | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Evidence that AT&T in San Francisco copied all Internet traffic, and provided it into NSA control; get complete PDFs of testimony of Mark Klein, ATT technician, and more. Massive abuse, not with warrents
HowardZinn.org
famous Left U.S. historian's home page; many of his essays and interviews available here as links
Technology and Democracy--Andrew Feenberg
Feenberg argues that technology ought to be considered more social than it is and to be subject to democratic process. Written in 1992, it eerily prefigures such abuses as Google's censoring the Internet in China.
Half an Hour: What Is Left?
Stephen Downes of Canada offers an eloquent statement of what it means to be a socialist or leftist at this time in history.
The ABC of Tactical Media by Garcia and Lovink
Using inexpensive forms of media production, the disenfranchised and those who feel excluded from the wider culture reshape representation in order to protest and reshape that culture.
Jay's Leftist and 'Progressive' Internet Resources Directory
good portal; note sources and use them for other news as well
Why failure is the new face of success | Iraq | Guardian Unlimited
Shock Doctrine, last extract: "reconstruction was to be the preserve of US corporations...Thus was born 'disaster capitalism', oil companies profit from a broken country and private security firms grow rich on political chaos"
The erasing of Iraq | Iraq | Guardian Unlimited
More from Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" [3rd excerpt]--cause and effect of US scorched earth, human destruction, allowing of plunder policies in Iraq
The age of disaster capitalism | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
Excerpt 2 --"The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein: After 9/11, Bush gov't inaugurated war on terror, diminished rights, set up corporate "disaster enterprise," to take over security, reconstruction, troop supply, etc.
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