Capitalism
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Racism, Sexism, Classism – The Necessary Incoherence Of ‘Mainstream’ Ethical Debate
What does it mean when journalists who spent the last two decades promoting wars of aggression on brown- and black-skinned people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen take a knee? Continue reading
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On Robots and Sheep
Today we are living in times of rupture. The ecological crisis poses a threat to the survival of many communities and animal species; immense inequalities increase economic and social instability that could explode with various forms of social destruction at any time. Ten years after one economic crisis we are facing another. Continue reading
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It’s Pearl River all over again!
29 July 2020 — theplanningmotivedotcom MUST READ Why the US needs to launch a pre-emptive strike The window for preserving US economic and financial hegemony is closing rapidly, concertinaed by the pandemic. The IMF data released 24th June, which is continuously being revised, gives a 9% reduction in US GDP relative to China this year.… Continue reading
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‘We will coup whoever we want’: Elon Musk and the overthrow of democracy in Bolivia
On July 24, 2020, Tesla’s Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that a second U.S. “government stimulus package is not in the best interests of the people.” Someone responded to Musk soon after, “You know what wasn’t in the best interest of people? The U.S. government organizing a coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia so you… Continue reading
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British grandmother dies weighing just 42 pounds after her benefits are withdrawn
The death of 61-year-old grandmother, Christine McCluskey, at the hands of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is a criminal act. Christine, from Dundee, Scotland, was an extremely ill and vulnerable woman who died weighing just 3 stone (42 pounds). Millions were shocked when they saw her emaciated body in national newspapers and on… Continue reading
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Post-Brexit Agrochemical Apocalypse for the UK?
The British government, regulators and global agrochemical corporations are colluding with each other and are thus engaging in criminal behaviour. That’s the message put forward in a new report written by environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason and sent to the UK Environment Agency. It follows her January 2019 open letter to Werner Baumann, CEO of Bayer… Continue reading
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Robert Kennedy Jr. in An Extraordinary Debate Performance Vs. Alan Dershowitz
Do not miss this debate. RFK, Jr. finally gets a chance to show the world the truth about Big Pharma, the CDC, NIH, and the U.S. Congress’s complicity in a vast criminal enterprise that is protected by law and is allowed to use the American people as guinea pigs for obscene profits. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
27 July 2020 — Black Agenda Report Has Covid-19 Initiated the Final, Fatal Crisis of Capitalism? The Covid-19-sparkd global economic depression is “a singular event in the history of world capitalism,” said Duboisian scholar Anthony Monteiro. “It might be the crisis that so disabled the world capitalist system that it will never be the same.” What’s… Continue reading
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Corruption in The Medical Field: US Doctors Threatened Over Hydroxychlorquine Use. Dr. Fauci is Blocking HCQ
There is an ongoing battle to suppress Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), a cheap and effective drug for the treatment of Covid-19. Dr. Anthony Fauci, advisor to president Trump, has played a key role. Continue reading
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The “Geneva Statement” Calls for Course Correction on Heritable Genome Editing
The “Geneva Statement on Heritable Human Genome Editing: The Need for Course Correction” points to the need to clarify misrepresentations, center societal consequences and concerns, and foster meaningful public empowerment and deliberation on the potential uses of this species-altering technology. It is a robust and cautionary statement about the future of heritable genome editing that seeks… Continue reading
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Gates Pushes Gene-Altering Technology on Seven Billion Humans
Pharma has over 170 COVID vaccines in development, but Gates and Fauci pushed Moderna’s “Frankenstein jab” to the front of the line. Scientists and ethicists are sounding alarms. The vaccine uses a new, untested, and very controversial experimental RNA technology that Gates has backed for over a decade. Instead of injecting an antigen and adjuvant… Continue reading
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The Fed genie and the bankers’ cave
This article looks at two current economic phenomena, how retail sales always out-perform and how investment banks in the USA always make profit come rain or shine. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf: Mid-July, 2020
19 July 2020 — Climate & Capitalism Reading matters Six new books … Greta Thunberg’s story; Fighting corporate food systems; Revolutionaries on climate; Food and revolution; A case for meat; Our carbon world Ecosocialist Bookshelf is an occasional feature. We can’t review every book we receive, but we will list and link to any that… Continue reading
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COVID-19 – Remdesivir: License to Kill. Hydroxychloroquine: Prohibition to Cure
Remdesivir’s fight against Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is somewhat symbolic of the fight of medical journals, of corrupt institutions against field medicine, of the many general practitioners who are at the bedside. Continue reading
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What Lies Ahead
On July 6, 2020 I posted my extended view and analysis why the 3rd quarter US GDP would falter–and lead to a W-shape recovery, as it typical of all Great Recessions. The current recession’s scenario was compared with 1929-30 and 2008-09, and 8 reasons were given why the US current economic rebound (not recovery) would… Continue reading
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False Promises: The ‘Green Revolution in Africa’ is failing on its own terms
A negative report card. Yield increases for key staple crops in the years before AGRA were just as low as during AGRA. The number of people going hungry has increased by 30 percent during the AGRA years. (Click image to download report.) The Gates Foundation’s billion dollar project is a vicious circle that drives small-scale… Continue reading
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The Inevitable, Fatal End of Globalization – Centuries of Obscene Entitlement Morphing into Unavoidable, Horrendous Consequences; New Beginnings?
As the world is understandably distracted by the threat of the pathogenic actions of an entity 10,000 times smaller than a grain of salt, we spend a huge amount of time arguing over its origins and nature, or whether it is real or a concocted plan to control human population, while saturating social media with… Continue reading
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THANK YOU FOR CALLING – OFFICIAL TRAILER – DOCUMENTARY
The documentary THANK YOU FOR CALLING by Klaus Scheidsteger takes the viewer behind the scenes of international research, industrial lobbying and current lawsuits for damages in the USA, which are largely ignored by the media. The film traces obfuscation tactics of the mobile phone industry and accompanies the struggle of some scientists who have been… Continue reading
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Examining the Wreckage
The United States is on fire. As we write this introduction, we can read in the ashes and embers of smoldering cities the writing on the wall—the historic movements for Black lives against white supremacy have raised class consciousness to levels that we simply have not experienced in previous generations. We might ask, why are… Continue reading
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Watch: 17 Contradictions and the End of Capitalism by David Harvey – Review (ft. Mad Blender)
11 July, 2020 — MRonline by Radical Reviewer Originally published: Radical Reviewer Youtube Channel (January 17, 2020) The Radical Reviewer and Mad Blender reviewing 17 Contradictions and the End of Capitalism by David Harvey. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 