Last Straw

This is video is of Michael Albert, an eco­nomic vis­ion­ary and one of my favour­ite people, attempt­ing to describe an altern­at­ive eco­nomy  —  Par­ti­cip­at­ory Eco­nom­ics  —  in 30 minutes. I think he does quite well. There’s more here, includ­ing a Q & A ses­sion and a descrip­tion from Jes­sica Azu­lay on how she and oth­ers put one of the insti­tu­tions of pare­con  —  bal­anced job com­plexes  —  into practice […]

I enjoy watch­ing Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show but some­times the con­fines of his lib­eral naiv­ety drives me nuts. Ian Sin­clair on the prob­lem with Jon Stew­art: Stew­art is surely right to state the main­stream news media in the US is “hurt­ing Amer­ica”, as he did dur­ing a heated exchange on CNN’s now-defunct Cross­fire in 2004. However, as a pro­gramme that is adversarial but always […]