Capitalism
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Does fighting climate change require postponing the fight for system change?
Should ecosocialists put aside calls for radical social change until after we win reforms that solve the climate crisis within capitalism? Continue reading
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The 2020 Covid Global Economic Meltdown: “Political Trickery” and the Relevance of 9/11
The world economic crisis of 2020 is creating the context for large-scale repeats of some key aspects of the bailout of 2007-2010. The bailout of 2007-2008 drew, in turn, from many practices developed in the period when the explosive events of 9/11 triggered a worldwide reset of global geopolitics. Continue reading
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Another lucrative contract for friends of Gove and Cummings
How is it that Public First, long-time associates of Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings, have been awarded yet another contract, without any advertising or competitive tendering process? Continue reading
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Was COVID-19 a Cover for an Anticipated or Planned Financial Crisis?
20 August, 2020 — Global Research The internationalization of increased unemployment and poverty brought about in the name of combating the corona crisis is having the effect of further widening the polarization between rich and poor on a global scale. By Anthony Hall A major sign of financial distress in the US economy kicked in in… Continue reading
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As courts re-open, Britain’s renters must confront the power of landlords
There was a moment, just after the declaration of lockdown, with the immediate loss of jobs and hours, when it seemed that a rent strike might be inevitable. Many members of London Renters Union thought there might finally be a moment of unity between renters affected by the pandemic that could be leveraged into much… Continue reading
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Halting Our Descent into Tyranny: Defeating the Global Elite’s COVID-19 Coup
As many authors have documented, the global elite is conducting a coup to take complete control of our lives. It is doing this by using the ‘virus’ to terrorize the human population into believing that we will ‘catch’ Covid-19 if we do not submit to draconian restrictions on our rights and freedoms. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2020
18 August 2020 — Climate & Capitalism Red & green readinNew books on fungi, climate & capital, food, bluefin tuna, & Cuban agriculture. PLUS new translations of Facing the Anthropocene, and two recent C&C book reviews Ecosocialist Bookshelf is an occasional feature. We can’t review every book we receive, but we will list and link… Continue reading
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The Virus: The PR Firm Behind WHO’s Celeb Endorsements
“Soft power” is a term that refers to stealth influencing using celebrities and other social media influencers Continue reading
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DARPA Launches Project CHARIOT in Bid to Shield Big Tech Profits
DARPA announces a new type of cryptography to protect the Big Tech firm profits from the dawn of quantum computers and allow backdoor access into 3 trillion internet-connected devices. Continue reading
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Your invite to the Trade Secrets book launch
We’re very excited to be publishing our director Nick Dearden’s new book, Trade Secrets: The truth about the US trade deal and how we can stop it, in under a week’s time. We’d like to invite you to our book launch on Tuesday 1 September, where Nick will be in conversation with Zoe Williams, journalist at The Guardian and co-host of the Another Europe Is Possible podcast. Continue reading
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The Reaction of the Left to Lockdown
In April I wrote a postscript to my critique of the ‘unofficial left’ (David Graeber, Noam Chomsky, Media Lens, etc.) criticising their non-response to the already highly suspicious coronavirus narrative. Things have moved on — now into the past tense — so here is the same summary, now updated and revised. Continue reading
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Lockdowns, Coronavirus, and Banks: Following the Money
It usually makes sense to follow the money when seeking understanding of almost any major change. The strategy of following the money in our current convergence of crises in late summer of 2020 leads us directly to the lockdowns. The lockdowns were first imposed on people in the Wuhan area of China. Then other populations… Continue reading
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Blight and Revelation: Coronavirus, Austerity and the UK
Epidemiologist Michael Marmot begins his August 10 piece in The Guardian on a sombre note. It is drawn from The Plague by Albert Camus. “The pestilence is at once blight and revelation; it brings the hidden truth of a corrupt world to the surface.” Professor Marmot uses the UK’s inglorious record on combating COVID-19 as… Continue reading
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HOW BRITAIN COULD HAVE DEFEATED COVID. YOU CAN NOW WATCH “THE DIRTY WAR ON THE NHS” HERE, FREE
The Dirty War on the NHS was first broadcast in Britain on the ITV Network on 17 December, 2019. It was shown following the general election that saw Boris Johnson become prime minister – even though the future of the NHS was a major issue in the campaign. Continue reading
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Big Pharma Giants GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi Receive $2.1 Billion to Develop COVID Vaccine
Operation Warp Speed is handing out cash at record velocity and this time, the two largest vaccine companies in the world are benefiting. Continue reading
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US GDP Collapses & Economic Rebound Fades
This past week US economy collapsed in the 2nd quarter by 32.9% at annual rate and nearly 10% just for the April-June period. Never before in modern US history—not even in the worse quarters of the 1930s great depression—has the US economy contracted so quickly and so deeply! Continue reading
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Crisis and Virus: COVID-19 in Context
It has been over forty years since Thatcher and monetarism, thirty years since the Canada-US Free trade agreement came into effect, and twenty years since the launch of the Euro. More recently, 2020 marks twelve years since the Great Recession and bank bailouts began, ten years since the turn to stimulus and sharp return to… Continue reading
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Uneven Earth’s Monthly Readings August 2020
2 August 2020 — Uneven Earth July readings On decolonial ecologies, struggles for land around the world, and radical syllabi for the new school year 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,… Continue reading
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TikTok – How The White House Helped U.S. Investors To Raid A Chinese Company
In 2017 the Chinese company ByteDance bought the Shanghai-based video app Musical.ly in a $1 billion deal and relaunched under the name TikTok. The app allows its users to create and share short videos with special effects. It was a great success and the app now has more than 80 million active users in the… Continue reading
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