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  • US Empire Seizes UK’s National Health Service

    One of the recent roles of the Parliamentary Healthcare Committee has been to reassure the British public that any claims regarding the ‘Americanization’ of the National Health Service (NHS) were wildly overstated, “creating a climate that risks blocking the joining up of services in the interests of patients.”  In fact, the penetration of the healthcare… Continue reading

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  • Go private for the treatment you need, NHS tells patients

    One in five patients has been told by a doctor or another NHS professional that they would have to go private to get the treatment or test they need. That’s just one of the shocking results from a survey of nearly 7,000 openDemocracy readers – backed up by separate polling commissioned by openDemocracy. Continue reading

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  • “The Common Sense of Humanity Is On Our Side”: Meet the Plan to Save the Planet

    In the face of a series of global crises, research organizations and political organizations across the world launched the Plan to Save the Planet on Thursday, November 25. Among the over 20 organizations that collaborated on the draft document were the International Peoples’ Assembly, the executive secretariat of ALBA-TCP, Instituto Simon Bolivar for Peace and… Continue reading

  • Invisible Dictatorship: One Dimensional Man vs the Emerging Multidimensional Individual

    Hermann Hesse in his book “Steppenwolf” (Der Steppenwolf, 1927), captures the feeling of anguish, despair and bewilderment that gripped European society in the interwar period and is a lucid analysis of the madness of an era in which the old is dying without the new having been born. In this work he scathingly criticizes bourgeois… Continue reading

  • Hold Fast Earthlings! The Elites Have Reissued the “Great Narrative”

    The “Great Narrative” is at hand! The author of the “Great Reset”, Klaus Schwab just launched another initiative at his World Economic Forum (WEF) in the UAE. And the world should be dully impressed, I am sure, but most people of earth will not be. WEF and most other institutions are walking a credibility tightrope… Continue reading

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  • Climate Warriors and Flagships from Hell

    There should be encampments and occupations in and near Middlesborough and Hull. There should be. If the spirit of Earth First and actual environmentalism was with us, perhaps there would be. Continue reading

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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

  • 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

  •  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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • ‘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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