Author: Shahid Bolsen

If the Islamists follow the patterns of the Chileans, Indonesians, Hatians and others who suffered under similar repressive coups, it will mean basically varying degrees of strife and sporadic violence for decades to come. This strife will be useful to the regime for the imposition of greater security restrictions and further counter-democratic measures under the…

Is it possible to achieve economic change without achieving political change first? When political institutions are dominated by the power of the private economy, by multinational corporations and foreign investors, or even domestic private business interests, they become impervious to popular influence. You cannot achieve economic change through political institutions when those institutions are controlled…