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1 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon20 March 2013 – This week in Black Agenda Report
9 March 2013 — Climate and Capitalism
This week I was privileged to see an advance release of the film Greedy Lying Bastards.
My advice is simple. See it. Tell your friends to see it. And tell everyone else as well. Use Facebook, Twitter, Email, Morse code — whatever tools you’ve got, use them to spread the word.
8 March 2013 — SolidarityEconomy.net
When Hugo Chávez triumphed in the 1998 presidential elections, the neoliberal capitalist model was already floundering. The choice then was none other than whether to re-establish the neoliberal capitalist model — clearly with some changes including greater concern for social issues, but still motivated by the same logic of profit seeking — or to go ahead and try to build another model.
22 February 2013 – Toronto — Left Streamed
A panel discussion introduced and moderated by Socialist Register co-editor Greg Albo. Presentations by: Continue reading this...
19 February, 2013 — Global Research
Capitalism is based on managing its inherent crises. It is also based on the need to maximise profit, beat down competitors, cut overheads and depress wages. In the 1960s and 70s, in the face of increasing competition from abroad, the US began to outsource manufacturing production to bring down costs by using cheap foreign labour. Other countries followed suit. Even more jobs were lost through the impulse to automate. To provide a further edge, trade unions and welfare were attacked in order to suppress wages at home. Problem solved. Or was it?
2 February 2013 — Green Left Weekly - Climate & Capitalism
“Green capitalism” is an oxymoron, because ecological destruction is built into the nature and logic of our present system of production and distribution.
28 January 2013 — Climate & Capitalism
Last week, British broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough devoted over a third of a widely reported interview to his claim that human beings are “a plague on the earth.”
8 January 2013 — Truthout
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“Imagine a country where the majority of the population reaps the majority of the benefits for their hard work, creative ingenuity and collaborative efforts. Imagine a country where corporate losses aren’t socialized, while gains are captured by an exclusive minority. Imagine a country run as a democracy, from the bottom up, not a plutocracy from the top down. Richard Wolff not only imagines it, but in his compelling, captivating and stunningly reasoned new book, Democracy at Work, he details how we get there from here – and why we absolutely must.” – Nomi Prins, Author of It Takes a Pillage and Black Tuesday
24 December 2012 — Readings From the Left
If you’ve not found RFL before this, here are a few of the latest, free offerings on the site.
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This important feminist critique of populationist theory and practice, long been out of print, is now available on Reading from the Left with the author’s assistance and permission.
23 October, 2012 — Media Lens
Ben Goldacre is a medical doctor and science writer who, until November 2011, wrote the Guardian’s Bad Science column which was presented as a thorn in the side of pseudoscience, quackery and ‘Big Pharma’, the giant and powerful pharmaceutical industry. On September 21, the Guardian published an extract, ‘The drugs don’t work: a modern medical scandal’, from Goldacre’s new book, Bad Pharma. (Unfortunately no longer available on the Guardian website. However, it can currently be accessed here). A disturbing picture emerges of corporate drug abuse: Continue reading this...
8 October, 2012 — Global Research
The coast is clear, the media tells us; economic disaster has been averted. The Euro Zone is finally stable and the U.S. economy is recovering. Whew!
18 September, 2012 — Media Lens
One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world is that ‘we’ are great defenders of human rights, a free press and the benefits of market economics. Mistakes might be made along the way, perhaps even tragic errors of judgement such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq. But the prevailing view is that ‘the West’ is essentially a force for good in the wider world. Why Are We The Good Guys? is a provocative challenge to this false ideology. The book digs beneath standard accounts of crucial issues such as foreign policy, climate change and the constant struggle between state-corporate power and genuine democracy.
20 August 2012
It didn’t advocate socialism but it was at least an attempt to begin to redress the evils of Apartheid Capitalism. Dumped of course, in its entirety by the ANC government once they got elected but still well worth reading especially in the light of the events at Marikana this past week.
19 August 2012 — The News Dissector
Is This Incident A Retaliation Because A Bank Official Made A Disparaging Comment About US Hostility To Iran?
Johannesburg, South Africa: On the surface, it looked like a simple game of “Gotcha,” when New York Bank regulators blew the whistle on London’s Standard Chartered Bank for laundering money. The fact that the money was allegedly tied to Iran cast a major shadow on the allegations, given the Islamic Republic’s “bad guy” image in American policy circles.
4 July 2012 — Climate and Capitalism
So many temperature records were being broken that, “there is no point in listing or even attempting to summarise all of the June monthly records”
This wonderful song by U.S. singer/songwriter David Rovics has been running through my head …
The political strategy of the Green Party assumes that politics just means fighting elections. This is a doomed approach. We will only win elections by building a movement, and we will never build much of a movement by simply fighting elections.
As predicted when it was introduced, B.C.’s carbon tax has hurt the poor, while doing nothing to cut emissions. Here’s an update … and a video of Simon Butler speaking on Australia’s equally bad plan
24 June 2012 – – Climate and Capitalism
190 governments express “deep concern” about the world’s environmental crises, but don’t plan to do anything about them.
23 June 2012 — Climate and Capitalism
A tale of two conferences: The social and ecological crises of capitalism
In Mexico and Brazil, the capitalist elite discusses how to continue exploiting humans and the natural world in the service of profit, while cloaking their intentions in the benign language of growth, development and sustainability.
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It’s not about saving capitalism, it’s about transitioning to a new economic paradigm. Capitalism’s death knell was rung back in the 1970s, with the document ‘Limits to Growth’, coming out of Rockefeller’s Club of Rome. The new paradigm will be a resource / carbon economy, with the IPPC doling out energy quotas to each nation.