See also:
- Critiques of 'Libertarianism'
- ZNet
- The best progressive political site I have found - it's huge, and very popular!
- Against Intellectual Property
- Alternative Media etc. sites - a handful with reviews
- An Appraisal of the Technologies of Political Control - Summary and Options Report - An actual European Parliament document. Scary stuff.
- 3 articles: anti-viv; consumer power (organic etc.); Nobel fraud
- Background Briefing - 28/03/99: The Party of the First Part - Transcript of a documentary on the problems of responsibility and contractual enforcement involved in (government) contracting out.
- CommieWear Columns
- Consumer Project on Technology - set up by Ralph Nader
- A Future Worth Living - Excellent essay on new strategies for rebuilding the fragmented Left movement(s), through: recognising ordinary people's real psychological conditions, their lack of behavioral altruism, and their need for activist groups to offer experiential activities that they feel comfortable with, positive visions not just being against things, and a social and pleasurable side as well as a self-sacrificing side.
- Garrett's Ethics Links - Loads of issues.
- if i ruled the world - by Jeremy Jacobs.
- Jay's Leftist and Progressive Internet Resources Directory - A frequently-updated topical directory of resources on the internet by, for and about leftists and progressives.
- Manufacturing Dissent 1999 - A Progressive Resource - An Internationalist Progressive Resource of News, Politics, Statistics and Information for activists, from an author in London, England.
- OpenWord - Fritz's free speech site-to-be
- Political Corrections - "This is a government of the people, by the people and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations." U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes. "Democracy means deceive people into doing what the rich want, and markets (capitalism) means make sure the public subsidize the rich." Noam Chomsky
- Protest.Net: A calendar of protest, meetings, and conferences.
- Rationality, Rational choice, Information and indeterminacy - paper
- Repression, Inc. - The Corporate Assault on Human Rights - "Human rights abuses, once committed primarily by repressive governments, are increasingly carried out in the corporate interest. "Free" trade and economic globalization have no more brought freedom and democracy to most of the world's people, than did the cold war before it."
- The Road - From our favorite TV dramas to the classrooms of our schools everyone is told; "Life is only what you make of it." Inspirational words that ring hollow without the more obvious truth behind them. That life is also what we make of it, together, as a society, as a whole.
- SNAFU Principle [Jargon File] - "True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth."
- Transhumanist Socialism - My latest idea. A type of socialism which holds that future transhumanist technologies such as nanotechnology will make it much more feasible to bring about a truly socialist world. Comments welcomed.
- The Trouble with Dilbert
- Vandana Shiva Interview (McSpotlight) - on McDonald's, Exploitation and the Global Economy
- The War of the Worlds, Welfare, and the Idle Rich - "The fact is, if you work for minimum wage, you're doing charity work of the first order: sacrificing much, and receiving very little in return. The fact is, if you belong to the 'jet-set,' you're living off the sacrifices of others. And yet we live in a topsy turvey world wherein those who sacrifice much and receive little are told that they're 'lucky to have a job,' and those who enjoy the proceeds of our sacrifices, are our so-called 'benefactors.'"
- ZNet Radical Theory instructional - A free course on radical theory - written in simple language, which makes a nice change!
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