Andrewgavinmarshall

LATEST ARTICLES ( 245 )

• Interviews: Power, Technocracy, Scientific Dictatorship and Revolution

  

  Even amongst the alternative media, we are often taught to fear our would-be overlords and their presumed omnipotence. But what if what we are fighting are not... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2012 CURRENT, DEBATE, ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Volume 1 of the People’s Book Project

  

  So there is a lot to cover, and a great deal I have already written, which is in need of editing and formatting properly within this volume. Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2012 ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Global Banking ‘Super-Entity’ Drug Cartel: The “Free Market” of Finance...

  

  HSBC bankers testifying before U.S. Senate on laundering billions in drug money (photo courtesy of The Economist, 21 July 2012) This essay is the product of... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2012 ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “A Lot of People Believe This Stuff”: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and the...

  

  “Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2012 ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Guest Post: “On Intellectuals and Their Duties in the 21st Century”

  

  The following is a guest post, originally published at What About Peace? by Devon DB: On Intellectuals and Their Duties in the 21st Century “It is the... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2012 ECONOMICS, PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The People’s Book Project Approaches Its One-Year Anniversary

  

  One aspect with which I have been attempting to take particular care for is in “concision”: in condensing and thoughtfully, yet logically weaving together a... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2012 ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Crowdfunding a Book for the Revolution

  

  A photo I took at the May 22 mass protest in MontrealDear Readers and Supporters,Funding for The People’s Book Project has essentially – despite a few select... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2012 ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Organize, Imagine, and Act: How a Student Movement Can Become a Revolution

  

  And so it seems that the student strike in Quebec is slowing down and nearing an end, as the college – CEGEPs – in Quebec have voted to return to class, with... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2012 ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Stand Strong and Do Not Despair: Some Thoughts on the Fading Student Movement...

  

  As eight of the fourteen CEGEP preparatory schools have voted to return to class, and thereby end the strike which began in February, Quebec is beginning to... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2012 ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Current Book Project: Over 300 Pages Completed on the Economic Crisis and...

  

  Thank you to all who have donated and supported the Project, and who continue to do so.Thank you,Andrew Gavin Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2012 ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Independence, Critical Thinking, and Radical Writing

  

  The discourse, however, still lacked a needed element: radical analysis of information, pushing not for reform, but systemic change, or, in a word: revolution. Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2012 ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Read the Revolution!

  

  In the current phase of The People’s Book Project, I have been doing extensive research and writing on the global economic crisis and anti-austerity and... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2012 ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Global Age of Rage

  

  Mass protest in Spain I am currently writing a book on the global economic crisis and the global resistance, rebellious and revolutionary movements that have... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2012 ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Political Language and the European Debt Crisis

  

  Angela Merkel, Jose Manuel Barroso, and Mario Monti: Europe’s champions of austerity and adjustment The following is a sample analysis from my upcoming book... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2012 ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Dictatorship of Austerity in Italy

  

  The following is Part 2 of a two-part excerpt on ‘Italy in Crisis.’ These excerpts are rough-draft, unedited samples of a chapter on the European debt crisis... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2012 ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Italy in Crisis: The Rise of the ‘Super Mario’ Technocracy

  

  Italy in Crisis: The Decline of the Roman Democracy and Rise of the ‘Super Mario’ Technocracy Part 1 of “Italy in Crisis”, a series of excerpts from a chapter i... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2012 ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• First Book To Be Done by the End of Summer!

  

  For those who have been following the evolution of the Book Project since it began in October of 2011, the notion of me “reorganizing” the Project is not new; i... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2012 ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 146 Greek Academics Shows Solidarity With Quebec Students / Message De Solidarit...

  Message de solidarité de la communauté académique grecque aux étudiants en lutte au QuébecNous, enseignants aux universités grecques, expriment notre... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2012 ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Media Lies, Corporate Ties, and Truth Dies? … Don’t Count on It!

  

  Media Lies, Corporate Ties, and Truth Dies? … Don’t Count on It! I’m Here to be as Annoying as Humanly Possible to Those in Power By: Andrew Gavin Marshall Our... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2012 DEBATE, ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• International Economic Forum of the Americas in Montreal

  

  Will the protesters of the Maple Spring say hello? Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2012 ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY