From Standpoint, Nick Cohen on Noam Chomsky and the manufacture of conspiracy theory. Chomsky Half Full: An interview with Noam Chomsky (and more). From Swans, Michael Barker on Howard Zinn and the co-option of social change. From Fast Capitalism, Mark Featherstone (Keele): Appetite for Destruction: On Naomi Klein’s Neo-liberal Utopia-Dystopia (and Naomi Klein revisits No Logo, ten years later; and Herbert Gintis reviews The Shock Doctrine). From Eat the State!, ten years after: Maria Tomchick on the legacy of the Seattle WTO protests (and more). A review of Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People by Jon Jeter (and more). Orwell's Epiphany: Capitalism relies on infinite expansion for its survival, which automatically leads to imperialism; to uproot this capitalist ideology will require a revival of the body politic. How free-market delusions destroyed the economy: An excerpt from Raj Patel's The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy. An interview with Joseph Heath, author of Filthy Lucre: Economics for People Who Hate Capitalism. Immanuel Wallerstein on the crisis of the capitalist system: Where do we go from here? From MR, is capitalism really on its last legs?: An interview with Michael D. Yates and Fred Magdoff, authors of The ABCs of the Economic Crisis: What Working People Need to Know (and more and more). A review of Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler. The Coming Insurrection: Nothing will change without a revolution.
