20 October 2021 — Off Guardian
Iain Davis Heads of UN and WEF signing “strategic partnership framework”, New York 2019 The Global Public-Private Partnership (GPPP) is a world-wide network of stakeholder capitalists and their partners.
Category: Capitalism
Watch: GP Bob Gill Outlines the US Corporate Takeover of the British NHS
20 October 2021 — Youtube/MintPress News
Lowkey: The British National Health Service (NHS) once stood as an internationally renowned example of a tax-funded health system that delivered public-health services to millions of British citizens, lifting a huge burden from the sick.
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Shutdown
19 October 2021 — Michael Roberts Blog
Adam Tooze has a new book out, Shutdown. Tooze is the liberal left’s current favourite historian. His previous book, The Wages of Destruction, won the Wolfson Prize for History and the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize. He has taught at Cambridge and Yale and is now Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University. He is a prolific writer of articles in the elite press; a mine of information and data on his Twitter account and his Chartbook site. And of course, he is on SubStack.
Mike Healy: ‘Marx and Digital Machines: Alienation, Technology, Capitalism’
8 October 2021 — Marx and Philosophy
by Thomas Klikauer (October 12, 2021 ) |
Mike Healy
Marx and Digital Machines: Alienation, Technology, Capitalism
University of Westminster Press, London, 2020, xi+156pp., £ 19,99
ISBN 9781-912656790
Ever since German philosopher Hegel discussed alienation and Karl Marx converted it into the sensible framework of the economics of capitalism, alienation isn’t really a new subject–many might even think all has been said. Yet, Healy’s exquisite book applies several recent frameworks of alienation to two groups of workers–IT workers and academics. His book delivers surprising insights and results. Healy has divided his book into eight short and very readable chapters starting with a conceptual chapter on “alienation”. The book’s key empirical chapters are on IT professionals.
The Climate Bomb: Failures to Confront the Unspeakable, and The Way Ahead
14 October 2021 — Global Research
Part II
In the last 50 years there have been two major threats to life on our planet. The first, the nuclear arms race and its near disaster of 1962, was narrowly averted by President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy, who then set a course for peace. [There’s a PART I to this essay but I have been unable to locate it. WB]
The second, the ticking climate bomb on its short “business as usual” fuse, has no solution in sight.
Capitalism has no endgame besides collapse & feudalistic warfare
15 October 2021 — See You in 2020
I got the image above from here
In the future that capital and empire are creating, the ones with the power will be people like Erik Prince. The ultra-wealthy oligarchs that have created private armies, and can hold a monopoly on violence in a world where even the imperialist countries have largely devolved into failed states. This type of dystopian vision for what could come after capitalism collapses has been called techno-feudalism. A reversion to the socioeconomic system that produced capitalism, one where the new feudal lords have the powers of modern weaponry.
Gaslighting 1.1 Billion Africans
15 October 2021 — Consortium News
It is generally easier for countries that offer development finance for energy projects to make low-carbon rules for others, not for themselves, write Benjamin Attia and Morgan Bazilian.
The majority of the Congolese population doesn’t have access to electricity. (Eduardo Soteras, AFP via Getty Images)
By Benjamin Attia and Morgan Bazilian
Today’s global energy inequities are staggering.
Video gamers in California consume more electricity than entire nations. The average Tanzanian used only one-sixth the electricity consumed by a typical American refrigerator in 2014.
Chris Hedges: The Anonymous Executioners of the Corporate State
7 October 2021 — MintPress News
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Judge Loretta Preska, an advisor to the conservative Federalist Society, to which Chevron is a major donor, sentenced human rights attorney and Chevron nemesis Steven Donziger to six months in prison Friday for misdemeanor contempt of court after he had already spent 787 days under house arrest in New York.
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Wall Street’s Takeover of Nature Advances with Launch of New Asset Class
13 October 2021 — The Wrong Kind of Green
By Whitney Webb
A project of the multilateral development banking system, the Rockefeller Foundation and the New York Stock Exchange recently created a new asset class that will put, not just the natural world, but the processes underpinning all life, up for sale under the guise of promoting “sustainability.”
The Big Green Lie
13 October 2021 — The Wrong Kind of Green
Survival International
At the next Convention on Biological Diversity summit [phase one: 11-15 October 2021], world leaders plan to agree turning 30% of the Earth into “Protected Areas” by 2030.
Big conservation NGOs say this will mitigate climate change, reduce wildlife loss, enhance biodiversity and so save our environment. They are wrong.
‘Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity’
12 October, 2021 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism
Will COP26 Act?
World Health Organization urges ‘rapid and ambitious action to halt and reverse the climate crisis’
On October 11, the World Health Organization published a special report on climate change and health. The Health Argument for Climate Action is being submitted to participants in the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which opens in Glasgow on October 31. During COP26, WHO will hold a Global Conference on Health & Climate Change, with a special focus on climate justice and the healthy and green recovery from Covid.-19
The following is from the report’s introduction. The full report, including detailed resources and case studies for each recommendation, can be downloaded here (PDF 4.7 MB).
