Capitalism
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Uneven Earth’s Monthly Readings August 2022
On our burning planet, the impact of private jets, socialist solidarity, and the growth of degrowth Once a month, we put together a list of stories we’ve been reading: news you might’ve missed or crucial conversations going on around the web. We focus on environmental justice, radical municipalism, new politics, political theory, and resources for… Continue reading
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My Body Is Not Your Capital-Producing Machine – Or Is It?
There are three basic freedoms: freedom to say NO; freedom to move away; and freedom to change what does not work. Individual freedom requires social support. To say NO, you need others to respect your choice and not force you to obey. To move freely, you need others to support your movement and not erect… Continue reading
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How Mario Draghi Broke Italy
Mario Draghi’s defenestration has left the Italian — and indeed international — establishment reeling in horror. This is not surprising. When he was nominated as Italy’s prime minister at the beginning of last year, Europe’s political and economic elites welcomed his arrival as a miracle. Virtually every party in the Italian parliament — including the two… Continue reading
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Biology at Another Crossroads
Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin’s publication of The Dialectical Biologist in 1985 provided a gestalt moment which remains just as valid and applicable decades after the book’s publication, if not even more so. Despite such relevance, it would appear that the ideas presented have remained sidelined in mainstream philosophy of biology, thanks to decades of genetic determinism… Continue reading
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Europe: caught in a trap
The major economies are moving closer to recession, if they are not already there; and yet inflation rates continue to rise (for now). The latest surveys of business activity, called Purchasing Managers Indexes (PMIs), show that both the Euro area and the US are now in contraction territory (i.e. any level below 50). The composite… Continue reading
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UK: GENERAL STRIKE NOW!
This is the slogan of the day as workers around the world are driven into destitution by the fraud of inflation. Such a slogan will only gain muscle if it is driven by the membership of the trade unions. The majority of trade union leaders do not lead from the front, instead they are found… Continue reading
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S.Korea attempts to assure China on supply chain amid US pressuring over exclusive ‘chip alliance’
South Korea faces a dilemma of whether to join the US-led semiconductor alliance “Chip 4” or not, as President Yoon Suk-yeol has called for “active diplomacy” with China to ensure there are no misunderstandings regarding its possible participation, the Yonhap News Agency reported. Continue reading
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Global Planned Financial Tsunami Has Just Begun
Since the creation of the US Federal Reserve over a century ago, every major financial market collapse has been deliberately triggered for political motives by the central bank. The situation is no different today, as clearly the US Fed is acting with its interest rate weapon to crash what is the greatest speculative financial bubble… Continue reading
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LIVE: No Chinese “Debt Traps,” Millennials Blamed for Inflation, The Guardian Pushes WWIII
Monday, 18 July 2022 — Danny Haiphong Continue reading
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The crushing power of the pharmaceutical industry – a sorry tale
Here is a sorry tale about the power of the pharmaceutical industry to crush all dissent … dead. The key player is Dr. Aseem Malhotra, who some of you may know. He is a consultant cardiologist. Very bright, sparky, willing to take on the establishment when required. I get on well with him, we communicate… Continue reading
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The Worst is Yet to Come: When the Center Cannot Hold
In America with wider global systemic tendencies. It is not hopeful about the future, yet. Its central message is that we should continue to struggle for a future we can believe in given that we live at a time of radical uncertainty. Continue reading
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Energy: the recession trigger?
There is confusion among mainstream economists and policy-makers on whether the major economies are heading for a recession, or are already in a recession; or will avoid one altogether. The majority view, at least in the US, is the latter. This optimistic view argues that, while inflation rates are high, they will start to fall… Continue reading
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Michael Hudson: The End of Western Civilization – Why It Lacks Resilience, and What Will Take Its Place
The greatest challenge facing societies has always been how to conduct trade and credit without letting merchants and creditors make money by exploiting their customers and debtors. All antiquity recognized that the drive to acquire money is addictive and indeed tends to be exploitative and hence socially injurious. The moral values of most societies opposed… Continue reading
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Political False Dichotomies: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
You may vote and debate freely on any issue which does not affect the functioning of the empire. When it comes to how money, weapons and resources move around the world, however, you suddenly find that your votes don’t matter and your position has no mainstream representation. They’ll let you argue until you’re blue in the… Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, July 2022
Tuesday, 12 July 2022 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism Summer reading for greens and reds. New books on work, extractive industry., empire, pandemics, organizing, and socialism Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that… Continue reading
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ECONOMIC STRESSES LEAD TO POLITICAL INSTABILITIES as Johnson discovered
Saturday, 9 July 2022 — theplanningmotivedotcom “In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely, relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society,… Continue reading
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What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis.”Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy”?
Thursday, 7 July 2022 — Global Research Covid, Capitalism, Friedrich Engels and Boris Johnson By Colin Todhunter “And thus it renders more and more evident the great central fact that the cause of the miserable condition of the working class is to be sought, not in these minor grievances, but in the capitalistic system itself.” Friedrich Engels,… Continue reading
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Christian fascism, Murdoch media lies, & our ever-more-apparent dystopia
The “United States” fundamentally lacks the characteristics of a nation. Its people have no shared history, culture, or values, because the country they’re in came about artificially. It’s a project for building up capital, constructed on land that was annexed in wars of aggression. America’s Christian nationalists have no actual nation, only a brand. They… Continue reading
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The ‘Wrong’ Turning Brings on the ‘Fourth Turning’
For the last four hundred years, west Europeans have lived one very particular ‘vision’; one that stands poles-apart from that which went earlier. As Galileo pursued his experimentation in Italy, it was Francis Bacon who set out a clear theory of inductive procedure – to make experiments, and to draw general conclusions from them, to… Continue reading
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For ecosocialist degrowth
Degrowth and ecosocialism are two of the most important movements—and proposals—on the radical side of the ecological spectrum. Sure, not everyone in the degrowth community identifies as a socialist, and not everyone who is an ecosocialist is convinced by the desirability of degrowth. But one can see an increasing tendency of mutual respect and convergence.… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 