Capitalism
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China and common prosperity
Back in May the Chinese government set up a special zone to implement ‘common prosperity’ in Zhejiang province, which also happens to be the location of the headquarters of several prominent internet corporations– Alibaba among them. And last month, China’s President Xi Jinping announced plans to spread “common prosperity”, heralding a tough crackdown on wealthy elites –… Continue reading
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The ‘Cure’ for COVID — a Global Takedown of the 99% — Has Proven Far Worse Than the Disease
Noting the disproportionately harsh socioeconomic impact for an illness for which “the numbers of infections and deaths … were smaller than the numbers of those from tuberculosis or seasonal influenza,” a preventive medicine expert who chronicled the Korean fiasco observed, “the people who undertake the costs incurred by movement restriction are not the same people… Continue reading
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Louisiana Black-out: Not an Act of God, an Act of Entergy
I was hired by the City of New Orleans to investigate why their power company, Entergy, simply can’t keep the lights on while citizens’ electric bills soar. That was in 1986. Continue reading
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Why Is the Gates Foundation Funding the UK’s Medicines Regulator?
On August 13, the UK government published a response to a freedom of information request in relation to the Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) — the UK’s equivalent of the FDA. The question it was in response to enquired as to whether or not the agency had received funding from the Bill and… Continue reading
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Scandal Behind the FDA Fake Approval of Pfizer Jab
On August 23 as the FDA announced full approval for the Pfizer mRNA gene-edited substance. Or not quite, when the full papers of FDA are studied. Fauci, whose NIAID has financial interest in the vaccine, referred to the FDA decision as the “final stamp of approval.” It is however anything but final or an impartial,… Continue reading
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Robbing the Soil, 2: ‘Systematic theft of communal property’
In 1549, tens of thousands of English peasants fought — and thousands died — to halt and reverse the spread of capitalist farming that was destroying their way of life. The largest action, known as Kett’s Rebellion, has been called “the greatest practical utopian project of Tudor England and the greatest anticapitalist rising in English… Continue reading
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Leaked report of the IPCC reveals that the growth model of capitalism is unsustainable
The second draft of the IPCC Group III report, focused on mitigation strategies, states that we must move away from the current capitalist model to avoid surpassing planetary boundaries and climate and ecological catastrophe). It also confirms our previous reports, covered by CTXT and The Guardian, that “greenhouse gas emissions must peak in the next… Continue reading
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On the brink–the scenario that the IPCC is not modelling
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 1 has presented its Physical Basis Report as a contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report on climate change, due in early 2022. The report and its summary are written in the precise style and vocabulary of scientific publications that make ‘objective’ statements. However, never before has a… Continue reading
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The IPCC Report: Key Findings and Radical Implications
The UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released its latest comprehensive report on the state of the earth’s climate. The much-anticipated report dominated the headlines for a few days in early August, then quickly disappeared amidst the latest news from Afghanistan, the fourth wave of Covid-19 infections in the US, and all the… Continue reading
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Science, Salvation and Heretics: From Monsanto to Pfizer, Same Old Playbook
Why are numerous ‘independent alternative’ media outlets and writers not questioning the COVID-19 vaccine rollout? If anything, they are promoting it without even considering the serious concerns being voiced by top scientists. Continue reading
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Where Best to Ride Out the Climate Apocalypse? The Billionaires’ Bunker Fantasies Go Mainstream
15 August, 2021 — Global Research By Jonathan Cook Having written posts on this blog for several years now, I have become ever more sensitive to how we, as news consumers, are subject to ideology – the invisible, shifting sands of our belief system. Those beliefs are not inbuilt, of course. How could they be? We… Continue reading
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From nuclear winter to boiling summers, capitalism continues to threaten the world
This article is not about saving the world, but why the capitalist class cannot save it. Capitalism has given rise to global warming through its drive for profits, and this drive will prevent it from reversing global warming. It is said capitalism is eminently adaptable. True, but that adaption has only occurred when and if… Continue reading
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Growing Neo-Colonial Instability Points To The Looming Civilizational Collapse Of Most Of The Globe
I say “most of the globe” because the 21st century civilizational collapse we’re in the early stages of isn’t going to be distributed evenly. Of course, in the long term the unraveling may catch up to even the most momentarily stable areas; as futurist William Gibson has said, “The future is already here — it’s just not… Continue reading
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Code Red: How can we prevent climate catastrophe?
13 August 2021 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism IPCC report proves our rulers have failed: it’s time for radical change by Martin Empson The release of the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis) presented us with a grim coincidence. The report was published as parts… Continue reading
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Environmental Demonstrators vs Militarized Police
These disasters give a new sense of urgency to transition away from the fossil fuels that are causing this climate chaos. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the movement fighting for this transition is running up against intense police repression — funded by private corporations as well as the federal government. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2021
12 August 2021 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism A bumper crop! Ten new books for red-greens and green-reds 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 with everything (or even anything!)… Continue reading
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Climate change: the fault of humanity?
The sixth report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) runs to nearly 4,000 pages. The IPCC has tried to summarise its report as the ‘final opportunity’ to avoid climate catastrophe. Its conclusions are not much changed since the previous publication in 2013, only more decisive this time. The evidence is clear: we know… Continue reading
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The Uncontrollability of Globalizing Capital
We live in an age of unprecedented historical crisis. Its severity can be gauged by the fact that we are not facing a more or less extensive cyclic crisis of capitalism as experienced in the past, but the deepening structural crisis of the capital system itself. As such this crisis affects—for the first time ever… Continue reading
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Monthly Review July-August 2021
9 August 2021 — Monthly Review July-August 2021 (Volume 73, Number 3) The Editors (July 4, 2021) buy this issue This special issue of Monthly Review is devoted to the New Cold War on China. What has been the view of the Chinese Revolution presented in Monthly Review in the past seven decades? How has it changed over time? As… Continue reading
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Facing Prison for Fighting Chevron
It was back in 2007, when I found him in his thatched stilt home in the rainforest. Criollo told me his 5-year-old son had jumped into a swimming hole, covered with an enticing shine. The shine was oil sludge, illegally dumped. His son came up vomiting blood, then dropped dead in the Chief’s arms. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 