Capitalism
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Big Pharma uses Big Tobacco’s strategy to defeat Ivermectin
The tobacco scientists argued that lung cancer was caused by genetics: if you were born with cancer genes, you developed cancer, and if you weren’t, you didn’t get it. Cigarettes might be associated with cancer, but they argued that more studies were needed if one were to actually “prove a causal link” between cigarettes and… Continue reading
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The State Strikes Back
10 April 2021 — theplanningmotivedotcom the-state-strikes-back.pdf Just a few years ago, at the height of globalisation, International Trade Treaties that were being negotiated included laws binding on participating countries with enforcement devolved to offshore havens. Failure to comply would entail facing unavoidable financial penalties set offshore. This was the ultimate goal of neo-liberalism, to strip… Continue reading
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Black Alliance for Peace: Fascism Was Born in the Colonies, Not Europe
Ajamu Baraka, the former Green Party vice presidential candidate and current national organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace – a member of the Black is Back Coalition — says Europe must be “de-centered” from discussions of fascism. African people need to “reject the assumption that fascism was something new and unique to Europe in… Continue reading
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DIANA JOHNSTONE: The Imperialism of Foolery
No promising event has more fully failed to keep its promise than the optimistically named Arab Spring. Ten years ago, massive protest demonstrations that began in Tunisia and moved quickly to Egypt were hailed as the harbinger of democracy overtaking the Middle East in one great swoop of history. Continue reading
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Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 3
In 1575, a moderately successful Bristol merchant named Anthony Parkhurst purchased a mid-sized ship and began organizing annual cod fishing expeditions to Newfoundland. Unlike most of his peers, he travelled with the fishworkers; while they were catching and drying cod, he explored “the harbors, creekes and havens and also the land, much more than ever… Continue reading
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The Agri-Food Model, Unregulated Gene Editing Technologies
6 April 2021 — Global Research Four Words Gates and His Pals Despise: Democracy and Minimum Support Price By Colin Todhunter The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and an assortment of high-profile figures and policy makers are pushing for unregulated gene-editing technologies, the rollout of bio-synthetic food created in laboratories, the expanded use of patented… Continue reading
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Bill Gates finances lobby for “new GMOs” in Europe
These new revelations from Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) are crucially important to read and understand if we want to preserve our democracy and food freedom. Please alert all your contacts. Continue reading
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COVID-19: Greed Drove Big Pharma Companies to Privatize Vaccines
29 March, 2021 — Consortium News – Common Dreams The AstraZeneca jab was actually developed by scientists from a publicly-funded institution, writes Nick Dearden in a retort to comments by Boris Johnson. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson shows proof of getting Oxford–AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine on March 19. (Andrew Parsons, No 10 Downing Street, Flickr) By Nick Dearden Common… Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf March 2021, Part Two
25 March, 2021 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism Marx on stealing wood, Human development in the Anthropocene, Solar energy, Nature dialogs, and two on food Climate & Capitalism can’t review every book we receive, but this monthly column briefly describes some that seem relevant to our mission. Any of these books may be reviewed at… Continue reading
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NHS: “Maybe we will never catch up”
This week the worry of NHS staff is clear; like the eye surgeon who believes that it will take over two years to work through the backlog of operations and suggested: ” maybe we will never catch up.” Similarly, an NHS trust boss says cancer and heart surgery will take many years to work through.… Continue reading
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“The Western Firewall Is Complete”: The CIA’s Vast Modern Anti-Communist Propaganda Effort
With Covid-19, the coming of the 2020s “Greater Depression,” and the climate catastrophe that’s increasingly afflicting our society with disasters like last month’s Texas blackouts, class conflict in the United States has reached the highly intensified state that it was destined to reach when neoliberalism first became implemented. You can’t drive down the living standards… Continue reading
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“Vaccines” Are the Keys to World Control
“It’s better to die on your feet than to live on your knees”, ascribed to Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, is quoted by many, but few seem willing to live it. In any case, the pharmaceutical industry and its operatives throughout government, media and the medical establishment have terrorized an already infantilized society and brought it to its collective… Continue reading
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Book Review: Mark Carney: value or price?
Mark Carney has a book out. It is called Value(s): Building A Better World For All. Canadian born Carney was formerly the governor of the Bank of England – the best paid governor ever at £680,000 a year plus £250,000 housing expenses. Carney recently commented that “You don’t get rich in public service.”! Continue reading
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The Ideology of Late Imperialism
In 1990, when renowned Indian Marxian economist Prabhat Patnaik asked “Whatever Happened to Imperialism?,” once vibrant and influential schools of theories on imperialism were at a postwar historic low.1 When he left the West to return to India in 1974, imperialism was at the center of all Marxist discussions. But when he came back to… Continue reading
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U.S. And Its Five Eye Partners Use ‘Persuasion’, Sabotage And Disinformation To Gain Vaccine Supremacy
The U.S. and some of its allies are engaged in efforts to malign the Russian Sputink V vaccine and to promote the more expensive mRNA vaccines produced by ‘western’ companies… To no one’s astonishment the U.S. government is directly involved in manipulations of vaccine accessibility. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, March 2021
13 March 2021 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism Six new books that are worth reading … and one that isn’t Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed 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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Return of the Leviathan: The Fascist Roots of the CIA and the True Origin of the Cold War
In 1998, the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group (IWG), at the behest of Congress, launched what became the largest congressionally mandated, single-subject declassification effort in history. As a result, more than 8.5 million pages of records have been opened to the public under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act (P.L. 105-246)… Continue reading
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Resisting Various Forms of Increasing Corporate Domination of Farming and Food Systems
Keeping in view the increasing concerns worldwide to check increasing corporate control over farming and food systems, there is a need to look more carefully at various forms of this increasing corporatization and consider carefully various ways and means of resisting this. Continue reading
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African food systems are the ‘new oil,’ UN documents say
Planning documents for the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021 shed new light on the agenda behind the controversial food summit that hundreds of farmers’ and human rights groups are boycotting over its dominance by agribusiness interests. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 