Capitalism
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Books: A chicken can’t lay a duck egg
How often are we told that the market must be part of the solution to the climate crisis? The efficiency, the focus, the discipline embedded in the pursuit of profit, the refinement of responding to consumer demands, each of us maximizing our individual utility, those are the values that will get us all pulling in… Continue reading
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The failure of COPitalism
The future was supposed to be copitalism: a new global economic paradigm where national governments work together through the United Nations (UN) Conference of the Parties (COP) process to limit emissions and prevent runaway climate breakdown – while leaving capitalism otherwise intact. Continue reading
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A Solution Without a Solution
16 September, 2021 — John Steppling Léon Spilliaert “Ultima ratio regum. (The final argument of kings)” — Inscription on french cannons, on order of Louis XIV “The language of Enlightenment has been hijacked in the name of corporate greed, the police state, a politically compromised science, and a permanent war economy.” — Terry Eagleton (Reason,… Continue reading
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Big Tech and the Current Challenges Facing the Class Struggle
A data ‘cloud’ sounds like an ethereal, magical place. It is, in reality, anything but that. The images in this dossier aim to visualise the materiality of the digital world we live in. A cloud is projected onto a chipboard. A vegetable is represented by a genetically modified patent. A cryptocurrency is ‘mined’ not by… Continue reading
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From Silicon Valley to Sámi lands: Victories Against Facebook
17 November 2021 — Corpwatch From Silicon Valley to Sámi lands in Norway, victories against Facebook and for reindeer herders! Welcome to the latest CorpWatch bulletin! We start with the good news – Facebook has agreed to shut down its decade-old facial recognition system following years of complaints because of how the data can be misused by private corporations, governments, and… Continue reading
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Watch: Your Never-Ending COVID-19 Booster Cycle & Moderna’s Miracle
Joining me today Whitney Webb, here to discuss the never-ending “booster” cycle of COVID-19 injections that is already under way, and her recent article about Moderna’s mRNA shots and the miraculous timing of their “success”. Continue reading
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Revolt of the Essential Workers
Back before the COVID-19 pandemic started, the year 2019 saw anti-government demonstrations in Paris, Manila, La Paz, Port-au-Prince, Bogotá, Prague, Quito , Beirut, Hong Kong, London, Baghdad, Barcelona, Budapest, Santiago, New Delhi, Jakarta, Buenos Aires and more, earning the title “the year of the protest.” It was also a year of resurgent labor activity in the United States. After decades of declining union participation, the country saw 25 major work stoppages involving 425,500 workers, the… Continue reading
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COP26 News Links 11-12 November 2021
12 November 2021 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Indigenous Leaders Call for Landback Reforms and Climate Justice in “Required Reading” https://countercurrents.org/2021/11/indigenous-leaders-call-for-landback-reforms-and-climate-justice-in-required-reading/ COP26- Real Climate Change Candor or More Dissimulation https://countercurrents.org/2021/11/cop26-real-climate-change-candor-or-more-dissimulation/ Continue reading
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COP26 News Links 101-11 November 2021
11 November 2021 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Germany says nuclear energy will set back turning EU green https://www.rt.com/news/540009-eu-germany-france-nuclear-green/ Bill Gates Should Know Better: How the Israeli Occupation Ravages the Environment in Palestine https://countercurrents.org/2021/11/bill-gates-should-know-better-how-the-israeli-occupation-ravages-the-environment-in-palestine/ Continue reading
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Why Are You Asking Us to Compromise on Our Lives?: The Forty-Fifth Newsletter (2021)
Nothing useful seemed to emerge from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at COP26 this week. The leaders of developed countries made tired speeches about their commitment to reversing the climate catastrophe. Their words rang with the clichés of spin doctors, their sincerity zero, their actual commitments to lowering carbon emissions nil.… Continue reading
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Books: Twilight capitalism
Twilight capitalism: Karl Marx and the decay of the profit system is the best book on Marxist political economy in 2021. Authored by Murray EG Smith, Jonah Butovsky and Josh Watterton, these Canadian-based Marxist economists have delivered a comprehensive and often original analysis of global capitalism in the 21st century. Continue reading
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COP26 News Links 8-9 November 2021
9 November 2021 — The New Dark Age The Sponsors of COP26 Are Behind the Corporate Greenwashing Agenda https://www.globalresearch.ca/sponsors-cop26-behind-corporate-greenwashing-agenda/5761079 Obama makes geographical blunder at COP26 in Glasgow https://www.rt.com/news/539766-obama-confuses-scotland-with-ireland/? Continue reading
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‘A Crime Against Humanity’: The ‘Greenwash Festival’ Of COP26
If you scour news reports from COP26 they yield a familiar litany of political rhetoric and weasel words: vows, pledges, promises, commitments, sign up, phase out, green investment, innovation, transition, progress, scaling up, carbon credits, bending the emissions curve, net zero, 2050, 2070. Continue reading
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Uneven Earth September & October readings
6 November 2021 — Uneven Earth On hidden histories, climate communication, land struggles, and the problems with veganism 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… Continue reading
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Financing the climate
COP26 trundles on in Glasgow with little sign that anything significant is being agreed towards reversing global warming and ending the degradation of nature. Beneath all the media headlines, governments and corporations are not putting their money where their mouths are. The financial support for measures to reduce carbon emissions and other destruction of the… Continue reading
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COP26 News Links 3-6 November 2021
6 November 2021 — The New Dark Age COP 26: Can a Singing, Dancing Rebellion Save the World? COP 26: Can a Singing, Dancing Rebellion Save the World? Conservation or Land Grab? The Financialization of Nature Conservation or Land Grab? The Financialization of Nature Will The People With Guns Allow Our Planet To Breathe? https://popularresistance.org/will-the-people-with-guns-allow-our-planet-to-breathe/ Continue reading
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COP26: Wall Street rolls out climate finance
The US climate envoy John Kerry is getting down to the real business at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Glasgow after President Joe Biden has had his photo-ops, made his idiosyncratic public remarks and flew back home. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2021
5 November 2021 — Climate & Capitalism 5 new books for reds and greens … plus 4 important articles and 3 recent reviews 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 C&C agrees… Continue reading
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Book Review: Reducing Production for a Livable Future
As climate change leads humanity’s march to Armageddon, data surfacing during late 2021 suggests that the march could be much briefer than previously thought. “Nature is starting to emit greenhouse gases in competition with cars, planes, trains, and factories,” asserts Robert Hunziker. The Amazon has switched from soaking up CO2 to emitting it. Likewise, the… Continue reading
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Anti-Asian hate is a symptom of intensifying capitalist reaction
Capital can be resilient. Far more resilient than many revolutionaries have anticipated. Marx predicted that communist revolutions would initially come in the countries where the productive forces are most developed. But save for the eastern part of Germany at the cost of a catastrophic war, none of the core imperialist countries have so far undergone… Continue reading
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