Capitalism
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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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The Fear Pandemic and the Crisis of Capitalism. Sleepwalking Towards A Global Economic Crisis?
In October 2019, in a speech at an International Monetary Fund conference, former Bank of England governor Mervyn King warned that the world was sleepwalking towards a fresh economic and financial crisis that would have devastating consequences for what he called the “democratic market system”. Continue reading
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COP26: why advanced countries must proportionately make by far the biggest cuts in carbon emissions–factual briefing
The COP26 conference on climate change is discussing an issue which will profoundly affect every person on our planet. Climate change, together with nuclear war, is one of the two issues which can overturn the present basis of human civilisation. Because of the extreme seriousness of this issue, the COP26 conference should therefore be an… Continue reading
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The Global Climate Wall
The biggest emitters of greenhouse gases spend an average of 2.3 times as much on arming their borders as on climate finance. Some spend 15 times as much. They aim to keep migrants away, rather than addressing the causes of displacement. Continue reading
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Bill Gates and the Uncertain Future of Food Security
As we approach a winter of discontent and Global food systems go from bad to worse, there’s trouble in paradise. At the root of these problems, Government responses to COVID-19 have contributed to a six-fold increase in famine-like conditions as global supply chains collapse, and field trials for gene-edited crops and farm animals begin in… Continue reading
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COVID-19: Moderna Gets Its Miracle
COVID-19 erased the regulatory and trial-related hurdles that Moderna could never surmount before. Yet, how did Moderna know that COVID-19 would create those conditions months before anyone else, and why did they later claim that their vaccine being tested in NIH trials was different than their commercial candidate? Continue reading
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COP-out 26
This weekend, COP26 meets in Glasgow, Scotland. Every country in the world is supposed to be represented in meetings designed to achieve agreement on limiting and reducing greenhouse gas emissions so that the planet does not overheat and cause widespread damage to the environment, species and human livelihoods across the planet. Continue reading
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We demand real zero, not net zero!
Oilwatch International network members, community representatives from oil regions, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations (CBOs), the academia and the media met in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State, Nigeria, between 19–21 of October 2021, physically and virtually, for the maiden edition of the Oilwatch International Global Gathering. Continue reading
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On the horizon: drone spies coming to UK skies
On the horizon: drone spies coming to UK skies 26/10/2021Tim Street SkyGuardian flight trials over the UK in September 2021 In the last few months Drone Wars and UK Drone Watch have organised protests outside RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire and RAF Lossiemouth in North East Scotland. We were protesting the decision to allow US arms… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 