Capitalism
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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
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Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 2
8 March 2021 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism Plundering a New Found Land While treasure fleets carried silver to Spain, far more ships were carrying men, fish and whale oil across the North Atlantic. Part One discussed the development of fish as a mass food commodity, and the Dutch use of factory ships in the… Continue reading
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Finally, Whose Land Is It?
It is not that the earth is ours and that it belongs to us. It is that we all belong to the earth. From it we live, with its fruits we feed ourselves, from its lakes and rivers comes the water we need, with its wood and stones we build our houses, even the most… Continue reading
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We’ve got some good news. The US has kicked the US-UK trade deal into the long grass
5 March 2021 — Global Justice Now Throughout last year Donald Trump and Boris Johnson wanted to do this high risk deal in a hurry, but public pressure from activists like you stopped them from being able to hustle it through before the US election. Since then we’ve been waiting to hear if the Biden… Continue reading
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Recent Amazon Revelations: What do they tell us about the ongoing farm protests?
Amid the continuing farm protests, with the farmers completing almost three months camping at the borders of Delhi, the international news agency Reuters published a report based on multiple internal documents of Amazon regarding its India operations over the last few years.[2] Amazon is a global e-commerce giant, and it has already achieved close to… Continue reading
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The Bits and Bytes of The Great Reset: COVID-19 and the Scaling Up of Data-Capitalism
The so-called Great Reset amounts to little more than a campaign to turn humanity into datasets, which the world’s most powerful hedge funds and transnational corporations can use to create more profits for themselves and their clients. Continue reading
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UK budget: coming out of COVID
The UK economy was the hardest hit of the top G7 economies in the year of the COVID. Real GDP fell 9.9%, which the multi-millionaire and richest man in the British parliament, Conservative Chancellor, Rishi Sunak admitted was the worst contraction in national income in 300 years! Continue reading
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A People’s History of Struggle: Liberty or Lockdown
What began in March 2020 as a three-week lockdown to ‘save the NHS’ has turned into a year-long clampdown on fundamental liberties with the spectre of freedom through vaccination (‘COVID status certificates’) and the eventual rollout of all-encompassing digital IDs on the horizon. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 