Capitalism
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Pandemic: ‘This is a time for bold programs from the left’
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Glyphosate Overuse Leads to Serious Immune System Concerns
16 May 2020 — Sustainable Pulse Editorial By Henry Rowlands, Sustainable Pulse Director In a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is dominating the global psyche, it is of course important to delve deeper into the background reasons for the failure of our immune systems to be able to cope with the serious threat of infectious… Continue reading
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Profitability, investment and the pandemic
Last week’s speech by US Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington was truly shocking. Powell told his audience of economists that “The scope and speed of this downturn are without modern precedent”. One shocking fact that he announced was that, according to a special Fed survey of ‘economic well-being’… Continue reading
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Watch: ROBERTS/GREEN Covid and profitability May 2020
Michael Roberts talks to Brian Green about the role of profitability of capital in the coronavirus crisis Continue reading
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COVID-19 bulletin 23: will a ‘shock-resistant food system’ be adopted?
Since the coronavirus pandemic took over and some supermarket egg and flour shelves are still bare here – and in parts of America – there has been greater public awareness of the fragility of our food system. Continue reading
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Revealed: UK government opposing patent-free Covid-19 vaccines
Last night BBC Newsnight revealed how the British government has been opposing patent-free coronavirus vaccines and treatments in the run up to a crucial World Health Organisation meeting on Monday.Despite government pledges to ensure vaccines are accessible to all, they are still not willing to take on big pharma and challenge their monopolies. Continue reading
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Reserve army—pandemic edition
You know things are bad—and going to get worse—when a mainstream newspaper like the Washington Post invokes the Mohr (Karl Marx) Continue reading
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‘Our Food System Is Very Much Modeled on Plantation Economics’
Janine Jackson interviewed the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Ricardo Salvador about the coronavirus food crisis for the May 8, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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Consequences of Coronavirus Pandemic are being Kept Under Wraps
As the global battle against the Coronavirus rages on, many fairly important processes are taking place in the international community. But current ruling elites have sought to keep silent about them and have stopped media outlets, answerable to them, from openly reporting about these developments. Continue reading
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Putting provid before workers to reopen the economy
13 May 2020 — theplanningmotivedotcom [I think this is a MUST-READ essay that gets to the heart of how and why capitalism is killing us in the so-called developed world. WB] Capitalism has and is making us sick. For three generations we have been besieged by pesticides, fungicides, preservatives and pollution. Our defences have been… Continue reading
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Disease capitalism and COVID-19: Hunger in the belly of the beast
We frequently hear that COVID-19 is the worst pandemic since the 1918 Spanish flu. It is forgotten that the third plague pandemic killed millions in South, South East and East Asia from the 1890s, and continued well after the Spanish flu, to the 1950s. That pandemic killed an estimated 10 million in India alone. I remember… Continue reading
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Opposing lockdown is NOT “profits before people” The UK’s policy is already killing people, it will kill many more if we don’t stop it. Soon
Ever since the UK entered “lockdown”, those pushing for it to end have been labelled “callous” or “selfish” or accused of putting profits before people. Meanwhile millions are unemployed and a global famine is on the horizon. The lockdown will kill more people than the virus, and needs to be ended. Continue reading
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The Transformation of Societies on the Occasion of Covid-19 Heralds the Militarisation of Europe
We reproduce a discussion between Thierry Meyssan and a group of students. He explains that the political responses to Covid-19 have no medical purpose. A partially identifiable transnational group seized the opportunity provided by the epidemic to try to impose a profound transformation of European societies, just as it had used the attacks of 11… Continue reading
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Book Review: Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, pork, and power in America
How pigs became commodities and key elements of the interlocked social, economic and political institutions of US capitalism. Continue reading
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Corona Tyranny – and Death by Famine
By the end of 2020 more people will have died from hunger, despair and suicide than from the corona disease. We, the world, is facing a famine-pandemic of biblical proportions. This real pandemic will overtake the “COVID-19 pandemic” by a long shot. The hunger pandemic reminds of the movie the Hunger Games, as it is… Continue reading
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Capitalism and Nature – A Really Inconvenient Truth
Eight years before the first Earth Day in 1970, Rachel Carson was one of the earliest researchers and writers to warn about the growing threats to the natural world in the 20th. C – specifically, she focused on the dangers inherent in the use of organophosphate pesticides by large-scale agri-businesses. Continue reading
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A zoom discussion with Michael Roberts on the prospects for the world economy post-lockdown
This is a very topical discussion and one with which the Bank of England has engaged in. It projects a 14% fall in GDP this year (the most in 300 years) followed by a 15% jump next year. This means a net rise in GDP of 1% over two years. This bounce back could have… Continue reading
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Criminal Big-Pharma Put in Charge of Covid-19 “Vaccine”
Big-Pharma – guilty of lying, cheating, stealing, bribery, and a history of exposing the public to dangerous and even deadly drugs – is being given billions to develop a Covid-19 “vaccine.” Would you trust your health to these criminals? Continue reading
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Authoritarianism in the Age of Pseudoscience
Following the court decision in the US to award in favour of Dewayne Johnson (exposure to Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer and its active ingredient, glyphosate, caused Johnson to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma), attorney Robert Kennedy Jr said at the post-trial press conference: Continue reading
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First meeting of Global Ecosocialist Network issues Covid-19 statement
The recently-formed Global Ecosocialist Network held its first formal meeting by videoconference on May 3. Ecosocialists from Africa, Europe, North America, and Australia spent two-and-a-half hours exchanging experiences and planning activities for the near future. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 