"President George Bush and the Gilded Age"

Yoshi Tsurumi (Professor of International Business, Baruch College, the City University of New York )

Something really strange has happened to the U.S. under the Bush Administration. With her ever bulging budget deficits and foreign debts, America's skewed income distribution is rapidly making the U.S. resemble Argentina or Mexico. The "Jobless Recovery" is not a political mirage, but a serious problem. America's GDP is increasing at an annual rate of about 4.0% this year. But, only those Wall Street "money gamers" and self-dealing "management aristocrats" of Corporate America are dizzy with their huge bonuses, padded salaries, and self-dealt stock options. The remaining hard working Americans cannot eat "GDP." The U.S. has widening income gap between a few "haves" and many "have-nots."

"Feminism: A Male Anarchist's Perspective"

Pendleton Vandiver

"I myself have never been able to find out what
feminism is: I only know that people call me a
feminist whenever I express sentiments that
differentiate me from a doormat" --Rebecca West, The Clarion, 1913

Most people in the current anarchist milieu -- female
or male -- would disagree, at least in principle, with
most of the following statements: there
are two immutable and natural categories under which
all humans are classified: male and female. A male
human being is a man, and a female human being is a
woman. Women are inherently inferior to men. Men are
smarter and stronger than women; women are more
emotional and delicate. Women exist for
the benefit of men. If a man demands sex from his
wife, it is her duty to oblige him, whether she wants
to or not. A man may force a woman to have sex
with him, as long as he has a very good reason for
making this demand. Humans are to be conceived of, in
the universal sense, as male ("man"), and only
referred to as female when one is speaking of
particular individuals. Women are a form of property.
To demand rights for women is tantamount to demanding
rights for animals and just as absurd.

"Argentina's Piqueteros and Us"

Jim Straub, Nation Institute

In 1999, the global justice movement first captured mainstream attention in the U.S. when, on the streets of Seattle, it protested and shut down a meeting of the World Trade Organization. The motley, if energetic, collection of groups ranging from environmentalists to trade unions to anarchists to farmers who coalesced into a single movement at that time were taking on nothing less than the preeminent economic development of the age: corporate globalization.

Since then, the forces of global justice have become perhaps the largest and most inspiring progressive movement seen in North America in three decades.

"Globalization"

Joseph Addison

The celebratory rhetoric of cosmopolitanism of commodities was
already perfected nearly three centuries ago:

There is no Place in the Town which I so much love to
frequent as the _Royal-Exchange_. It gives me a secret Satisfaction,
and, in some measure, gratifies my Vanity, as I am an _Englishman_,
to see so rich an Assembly of Country-men and Foreigners consulting
together upon the private Business of Mankind, and making this
Metropolis a kind of _Emporium_ for the whole Earth. I must confess I
look upon High-Change to be a great Council, in which all
considerable Nations have their Representatives. Factors in the
Trading World are what Ambassadors are in the Politick World; they
negotiate Affairs, conclude Treaties, and maintain a good
Correspondence between those wealthy Societies of Men that are
divided from one another by Seas and Oceans, or live on the different
Extremities of a Continent.