http://www.pmpress.org/content/index.php?topic=bl Feed of latest blog entries from PM Press Copyright 2013 PM Press GeekLog Fri, 17 May 2013 11:15:58 -0700 en-gb http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130517111338702 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130517111338702 Fri, 17 May 2013 11:13:38 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130517111338702#comments PM Press Blogs "Rights" in danger http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130515050904257 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130515050904257 Wed, 15 May 2013 05:09:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130515050904257#comments PM Press Blogs Two reviews of a new book, plus a comment by me. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130510130124897 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130510130124897 Fri, 10 May 2013 13:01:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130510130124897#comments PM Press Blogs As many of those close to me know... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130505192426662 Kenneth Wishnia http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130505192426662 Sun, 05 May 2013 19:24:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130505192426662#comments PM Press Blogs Humor is the weapon of the powerless. Being the child of intellectual Jews gave me many advantages as a kid (bagels, Woody Allen movies, skepticism of political power), but when we moved to suburban Long Island in the late 1960s, I discovered the... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130505191652816 Kenneth Wishnia http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130505191652816 Sun, 05 May 2013 19:16:52 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130505191652816#comments PM Press Blogs Nobody wants to read a political tract disguised as a novel, especially a crime novel. But one of the major reasons I was attracted to the crime genre in the first place is its long history of social commentary, going back to Hammett in the 1920s... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130501040045283 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130501040045283 Wed, 01 May 2013 04:00:45 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130501040045283#comments PM Press Blogs I believe I go with the old man. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130423151755456 George Katsiaficas http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130423151755456 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:17:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130423151755456#comments PM Press Blogs For more than three years, I have sought information through the Freedom of Information Act related to US involvement in the 1979 assassination of South Korean president Park Chung-hee (whose daughter is now president of SK). The CIA has refused t... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130423141551579 George Katsiaficas http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130423141551579 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:15:51 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130423141551579#comments PM Press Blogs On April 10, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned North Korea that it “has been, with its bellicose rhetoric, with its actions, skating very close to a dangerous line.” http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130405085712720 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130405085712720 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:57:12 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130405085712720#comments PM Press Blogs I admit to some awe http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130315022421404 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130315022421404 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 02:24:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130315022421404#comments PM Press Blogs a discussion of Third-Worldism and Unequal Exchange http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130228193635830 Cindy Milstein http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130228193635830 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:36:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130228193635830#comments PM Press Blogs Number 1 in what I hope becomes a series of speculative thought on "the culture of capitalism"; for the original post and tons of other writings of mine, see my Outside the Circle blog at cbmilstein.wordpress.com. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130225031950725 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130225031950725 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 03:19:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130225031950725#comments PM Press Blogs Why should agnostics, atheists, secular humanists, and/or Leftists give a shit about the latest crisis in the scandal-ridden Holy Roman Apostalic Catholic Church?  http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130220224113505 Cindy Milstein http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130220224113505 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:41:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130220224113505#comments PM Press Blogs For the original of this blog post and a whole bunch of other essays, see my Outside the Circle at cbmilstein.wordpress.com http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130125100859619 Cindy Milstein http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130125100859619 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:08:59 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130125100859619#comments PM Press Blogs One of my sisters, who is also a good and insightful friend to me, asked me this evening, "What's standing in your way of writing?" Her paid job is helping folks who are labeled "mentally ill" to figure out their own aims a... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130124225445107 John Curl http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130124225445107 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:54:45 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130124225445107#comments PM Press Blogs There is a new interview with me by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers in the web magazine TRUTHOUT. The article is entitles, "Cooperatives and Community Work are Part of American DNA." Check it out! http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130112135230607 John Curl http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130112135230607 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:52:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130112135230607#comments PM Press Blogs Last week I did a live interview with Kevin Reese on his radio show Clearing the Fog. Here is a link to it online, http://clearingthefogradio.org/john-curl-on-the-history-of-cooperatives-and-communalism-in-the-us/.It is currently the top story on ... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130112124600319 John Curl http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130112124600319 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:46:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130112124600319#comments PM Press Blogs You can read a deep interview with me by Michael Johnson of Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO), called "Lessons for Building a Co-Operative Movement" http://www.geo.coop/story/lessons-building-co-operative-movement http://truth... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2013010602274230 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2013010602274230 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 02:27:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2013010602274230#comments PM Press Blogs Time for a new Emancipation Proclamation. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121228204022969 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121228204022969 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:40:22 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121228204022969#comments PM Press Blogs Reactions were sharply divided here in Euroland to Stockholm’s award of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union (EU) in recognition of its efforts to promote the moral values of fiscal discipline and responsibility through the... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121223154906431 Michael Harris http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121223154906431 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 15:30:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121223154906431#comments PM Press Blogs Is it "The Chieu Hoi Saloon," the novel I published with PM Press in 2010? Or the novel I recently finished? Or the novel I've just started?  http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121223150312260 Susie Day http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121223150312260 Sun, 23 Dec 2012 15:03:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121223150312260#comments PM Press Blogs You might remember me from such codependent masterpieces as the Pietà and nine billion paintings depicting the braless Madonna and blessed breast-fed children. Boys, all boys. Which reminds me: I want to talk about abortion rights. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121221122258581 Sasha Lilley http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121221122258581 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 12:22:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121221122258581#comments PM Press Blogs Fear and fear-based politics, do not tend to serve the left in the way that they serve the right. The idea of a cleansing catastrophe flows naturally from reactionary politics. The right thrives on fear. And it has a simple solution for the al... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121220172909436 James Davis http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121220172909436 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:29:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121220172909436#comments PM Press Blogs This is a piece I published on Le Monde Diplomatique a few days ago about the death of Indian immigrant Savita Halappanavar in Ireland in October. http://mondediplo.com/blogs/ireland-urgent-need-for-changeA longer version appeared on Counterp... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121126085621431 Cindy Milstein http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121126085621431 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:56:21 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121126085621431#comments PM Press Blogs The original blog post, filed under "Dispatches from Life," is available at http://cbmilstein.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/messy-this-is-what-democracy-might-always-look-like-but-its-worth-it/ http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121126084659478 Cindy Milstein http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121126084659478 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:46:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121126084659478#comments PM Press Blogs The original blog post, filed under "Dispatches from Life," is available at http://cbmilstein.wordpress.com/2012/11/24/alone-in-this-together/ http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121121113405634 Gabriel Kuhn http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121121113405634 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:34:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121121113405634#comments PM Press Blogs Meet Pantrarna, a social justice organization from Gothenburg, Sweden, modeled after the Black Panther Party. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121116112753500 Susie Day http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121116112753500 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:27:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121116112753500#comments PM Press Blogs “Henceforth, we pledge to use our white supremacy for good,” declared Commissioner Kelly. “Also, we figure that if we start racially profiling white people, the NAACP and the NY Civil Liberties Union will finally stop dissing us.... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130424112143154 scott crow http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130424112143154 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:21:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20130424112143154#comments PM Press Blogs The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy has raised the question once again of whether post-disaster relief can help build organizations and networks that will create more resilient communities for the future. In trying to do so, East Coast activists a... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2012110921552678 Cindy Milstein http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2012110921552678 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:55:26 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2012110921552678#comments PM Press Blogs You can find other blog-musings and more polished essays at Outside the Circle, cbmilstein.wordpress.com/. Share, enjoy, and repost–as long as it’s free, as in “free beer” and “freedom. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121109215403940 Cindy Milstein http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121109215403940 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:54:03 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20121109215403940#comments PM Press Blogs You can find other blog-musings and more polished essays at Outside the Circle, cbmilstein.wordpress.com/. Share, enjoy, and repost–as long as it’s free, as in “free beer” and “freedom.