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Tag Archives: AFL-CIO
Bringing Democracy to Nicaragua (Part 2 of 2)
More from the archives, part one here. The End of Enterprise In December of 1982, a group of 70 departed from the Nicaraguan town of Esteli to take part in the annual coffee harvest. Among the group was Felipe Barreda, … Continue reading
Bringing Democracy to Nicaragua (Part 1 of 2)
Another set of text fragments from one the deep archives…. The Unmaking of a Country The actions in Chile had helped signal the most important development at the end of the Cold War – the triumph of the transnational moderate … Continue reading
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Tagged AFL-CIO, BCCI, business nationalism, CIA, Cold War, covert war, criminal capitalism, democracy, democracy promotion, Iran, Iran-Contra, Iraq, Israeli, liberal internationalism, National Endowment for Democracy, neoconservatism, neoliberalism, Nicaragua, Oliver North, proxy wars, Sandinista, Social Democrats USA, transnational capitalist class, transnational politics
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Empire, Biopower, Spectacle: Notes on Tiqqun
Today’s territory is the product of many centuries of police operations. People have been pushed out of their fields, then their streets, then their neighborhoods, and finally and from the hallways of their buildings, in the demented hope of containing … Continue reading
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Tagged AFL-CIO, biopower, control, cybernetics, Empire, Foucault, General Intellect, Hardt, immaterial labor, IWW, multitude, Negri, Occupy Wall Street, post-Fordism, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, revolution, spectacle, subjectivity, Tiqqun
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Between the Transnational Capitalist Class and Global Civil Society: The Structures of Imperial Protocol
In several past posts, I’ve looked at different ways in which Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s hypothesis of Empire, the current transnational order, is composed and operates through its various methodologies and influences. In one of these, Life in the … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, AFL-CIO, civil society, control, Council on Foreign Relations, democracy, democracy promotion, Empire, Ford Foundation, Fordism, Freedom House, globalization, Hardt, internet, Keynesianism, National Endowment for Democracy, Negri, neoliberalism, post-Fordism, Protocol, Rockefeller Foundation, Social Democrats USA, transnational capitalist class, transnational state apparatus, Trilateral Commission
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From Socialism to Neoliberalism: A Story of Capture (Part 2 of 2)
Kahn Goes to Washington, Rustin Goes to War Overall, 1972 proved to be a year of change on all fronts. Shachtman passed away and was eulogized by Kahn in the pages of Dissent. Henry Jackson lost the nomination to George McGovern … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, AFL-CIO, democracy, labor, neoconservatism, Social Democrats USA
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From Socialism to Neoliberalism: A Story of Capture (Part 1 of 2)
[The following comes from a text I had worked on several years ago. For a variety of reasons, the project never came to fruition, but I’ve been revisiting my notes from this period in preparation for my current work. Note: … Continue reading
Deterritorial Investigations 