The financial crisis that swept the world after 2007 should have been the final nail in the coffin for the neo-liberal. Yet, globally, neo-liberalism didn’t die.
Participatory Totalitarianism
We are not passive objects of the surveillance state. We are active subjects of our own YouTube channels.
Mexico’s Oil Privatization: Risky Business
Mexico’s oil privatization scheme will hurt the environment, scar the landscape, and leave Mexico at the mercy of transnational firms.
The Free-Trade Regime: Oligarchy in Action
Free trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership undermine democracy and sovereignty.
Burkina Faso’s “West African Spring”
Large pro-democracy demonstrations in Burkina Faso have largely escaped the Western media’s radar.
Typhoons and Tigers: Why Taiwan Has Outpaced the Philippines
If it weren’t for decades of Western-backed political and economic repression, the Philippines might have joined the Asian Tigers years ago.
Zapatistas at Twenty
There are two tests of social change movements: endurance and regeneration. After two decades, Mexico’s Zapatista movement can now say it passed both.
Tunisia: New Government, Old Ways?
While Tunisia remains an island of hope, its latest government reshuffling promises to change little for the country’s impoverished population.
Spineless in Bali
Developed countries are still using the WTO to squeeze small farmers in the developing world–and developing world governments are going along with the charade.
NAFTA at 20: State of the North American Worker
Twenty years since its passage, NAFTA has displaced workers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, depressed wages, weakened unions, and set the terms of the neoliberal global economy.