Capitalism
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THE VIRUS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD ECONOMY
The next two weeks will be crucial in determining whether or not the corona virus, which has spread beyond China, will be classified as a pandemic. Even if it has not, the fact that is has infected hundreds of thousands of people, means it is now established in the human race. Therefore, it is not… Continue reading
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Toxic Agriculture and the Gates Foundation
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was launched in 2000 and has $46.8 billion in assets (December 2018). It is the largest charitable foundation in the world and distributes more aid for global health than any government. One of the foundation’s stated goals is to globally enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2020
25 February 2020 — Climate & Capitalism Eight new books Robbery of nature; Choosing a future; Neoliberal lives; Indigenous resistance; Canadian oil vs the climate; Environmental justice in danger; Agrobiodiversity; Cars and capitalism 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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How we stay blind to the story of power
If one thing drives me to write, especially these blog posts, it is the urgent need for us to start understanding power. Power is the force that shapes almost everything about our lives and our deaths. There is no more important issue. Understanding power and overcoming it through that understanding is the only path to… Continue reading
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Coronavirus – The Decline Of New Cases Continues – Economic Ripples Begin To Emerge
22 February 2020 — Moon of Alabama China is making more progress in the fight against the novel coronavirus while other countries see increased problems. Meanwhile the global economic damage that the epidemic causes is slowly coming into view. Continue reading
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Toxic residues through the back door
Pesticide corporations and trade partners pressured EU to allow banned substances in imported crops Continue reading
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Telecom Jackboot: A 5G Kick to the Groin
The latest advances in networked technology hold the promise of lifting millions of people out of poverty. Take 5G. It is hyper-fast and, as everyone knows, time is money. Who doesn’t look to save both? Continue reading
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‘And Then – Nothing. Silence’: The Deadly Facade Of ‘Democracy’
If you were mad enough to judge the state of the world by the daily outpourings of ‘mainstream’ media, you would have no real understanding of the perilous state of the human race. Or, if you had concerns on seeing the latest news on climate breakdown, you would not be fully informed about the powerful elites that… Continue reading
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Capitalist roots of the environment crisis
Amid the infinite, silent expanse of the universe, the emergence of any kind of life at all on the small speck we call Earth is miraculous enough. That those first primitive forms of life, after 3 to 4 billion years of development, would give rise to a species that can ask about the origin and… Continue reading
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WHY VIRUSES ARE necessarily ANTI-CAPITAL
The above title may appear facetious, but it is not. It is scientific. Many of the economic practices designed to maximise profits are unnatural. In terms of ecology they are discordant and as the productive capacity of capitalism grows, so the rebound effect from nature is multiplied. The coronavirus now beginning to spread globally, despite… Continue reading
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Genetically Modified Seeds: Conceived as a Weapon
GM seeds and GM food carry great risks for all nations, so much so that for many reasons it is probably imperative these foods be banned outright. This subject is too large to be discussed here, but one aspect requires brief notice. If we were to ask about the origin of GM seeds, how the… Continue reading
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Time Warp UK By Craig Murray
The resignation of Savid Javid yesterday as Chancellor without even presenting a budget mirrors the resignation of Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston’s father – and in so doing says something extraordinary about lack of social progress in the UK in the intervening 130 years. Continue reading
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The virus that broke the camel’s back
14 February 2020 — theplanningmotivedotcom The economic difference between the current coronavirus and SARS (end of 2002) is this. In 2002 China was on the ascendancy whereas today the opposite is happening, China is in the descendancy. China is the heart of the world economy, and should this virus tip the economy into recession, it… Continue reading
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The climate and the fat tail risk
Last month at the gathering of the great but not good, the rich and infamous, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, US Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, formerly a hedge fund manager, was asked whether he agreed that calls by teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg for public and private-sector divestment from fossil fuel companies would… Continue reading
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Why Food Systems Are Breaking Down Across The World
Daniel Maingi works with small farmers in Kenya and belongs to the organisation Growth Partners for Africa. He remembers a time when his family would grow and eat a diversity of crops, such as mung beans, green grams, pigeon peas and a variety of fruits now considered ‘wild’. Continue reading
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Kleptotors and the DWP
By TruePublica Editor: You’ve just been unexpectedly transported to the alien nation of Kleptotors 186. The planet has substantial mineral wealth and food diversity and is populated with a sophisticated society arranged around the type of democratic principles we are used to back on Earth. Unfortunately, the wealth of the Kleptos has come about through… Continue reading
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The Limits of Capitalism By Laurie E. Adkin
The political activism of my youth was largely in solidarity with anti-colonial movements in Africa and Palestine, anti-US imperialist movements and dictatorships in Latin America, and solidarity-building between the labour and other social movements around a broad program of democratic, anti-capitalist reforms. In those struggles, there was always an assumption that social transformation could draw… Continue reading
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Fucked by Financialisation? Take Back Control & Save the World!
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Blue Acceleration: Capitalism’s growing assault on the oceans
Called the Great Acceleration, the speed-up is driving what Earth System scientists describe as “the most rapid transformation of the human relationship with the natural world in the history of humankind.”[1] It marks the beginning of a new historical and geological epoch, the Anthropocene — a time when “human activities have become so pervasive and… Continue reading
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How Capitalism’s Structural and Ideological Crisis Gives Rise to Neo-Fascism
Globalization sociologist William I. Robinson explains how global capitalism has been mired in a structural crisis since the 1970s, but especially since 2008, which has also led to a crisis of legitimacy, giving rise to neo-fascism around the world. (Inc. transcript) Continue reading
The New Dark Age 