Capitalism
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Global Currency War, Central Banks ‘Race to the Bottom’, Europe Capitalist ‘Weak Link’–audio
In the wake of last week’s Trump-China Trade War tariff hike, the fallout continues: No trade deal 2019 for certain. More market instability coming. Central banks worldwide rushing to lower interest rates and currencies falling–aka the currency war has arrived. Europe’s 3 imminent crises brewing. And watch out for India Economy as Modi engages in… Continue reading
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India’s Tryst with Destiny: Freedom Struggle from Exploitation and Degradation Is Global By Colin Todhunter
Today, we are in the grip of a globalised system of capitalism which drives narcissism, domination, ego, anthropocentrism, speciesism and plunder. A system that is using up oil, water and other resources much faster than they can ever be regenerated. We have poisoned the rivers and oceans, destroyed natural habitats, driven wildlife species to (the… Continue reading
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The US-China Trade War: Selected Stories
8 August 2019 — Global Research “On a Scale of 1-10, It’s an 11” – Wall Street Reacts to China’s Retaliation By Zero Hedge One day after China finally snapped, and demonstratively refused to intervene and keep the CNH above 7.00 vs the dollar, escalating the trade war into a currency war, stocks are tumbling and Wall… Continue reading
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Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet
Originally posted on The Decolonial Atlas: Names and Location of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet, 2019 “The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.” – Utah Phillips Just 100 companies are responsible for more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions… Continue reading
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Shooter Capitalism
It, it being capitalism, wears a thousand masks and obscures itself behind a thousand labels. Called and calling itself at one time or another —laissez-faire, free market, conservative, liberal, neo-conservative, neo-liberal, progressive, neo-progressive, state, enlightened, gangster, welfare, welfare-state, party, non-partisan, crony, democratic, radical, responsible, racketeering, managed, bureaucratic, mercantilist, free-trade, protectionist, enclave, niche, tea-party, libertarian, populist,… Continue reading
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Class War Films presents Imperial Decay
All empires are evil; they are certainly undemocratic. Can the U.S. un-imperialize itself, or must it go the way of all empires? Collapse. Continue reading
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The Handbook of Karl Marx: profitability, crises and financialisation
The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx, edited by Matt Vidal, Tomas Rotta, Tony Smith and Paul Prew, brings together a series of chapters by prominent Marxist scholars covering all aspects Marxist theory, from historical materialism, dialectics, political economy, social reproduction and post-capitalist models. Continue reading
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What kind of rebellion will save humanity from extinction?
The real power of mass civil disobedience is not its ability to shock the powerful into listening, but rather its potential to draw masses of people into action. Continue reading
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Climate Change is Class War by Jodi Dean
Contemporary capitalism presents a direct threat to the survival of most of the world’s species: climate change. The global capitalist economy is anchored in fossil fuels. Burning these fuels releases warming gasses into the atmosphere where they accumulate over time, raising the earth’s temperature. The rising temperatures have significant effects. For example, melting glaciers and polar… Continue reading
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LEAKED: UK’s new trade secretary met with US pressure groups to discuss weakening regulations
In ‘off the record’ meetings last September, Liz Truss sought lessons from Donald Trump’s radical program of deregulation and tax cuts. The new international trade secretary, Liz Truss, met with hard-right pressure groups in Washington DC last year to learn about the benefits of Donald Trump’s deregulatory agenda, according to official documents obtained by Unearthed. Continue reading
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China’s Yuan Breaks the 7 to $1 Band–The Global Currency War Has Begun
Over this weekend, China’s Yuan currency broke out of its band and devalued to more than 7 to $1. At the same time China announced it would not purchase more US agricultural goods. The Trump-US Neocon trade strategy has just imploded. As this writer has been predicting, the threshold has now been passed, from a… Continue reading
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A life costs £10,000: how G4S’ Brook House detention contract works
In 2017, security company G4S was in the headlines again after the Panorama TV programme exposed new revelations of brutality in Brook House, one of two immigration detention centres the company runs for the Home Office. Two years later, the National Audit Office has published a report on G4S’ contract to run the centre. Continue reading
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The Citadels of America’s Elites: Fractured and At Odds with Each Other By Alastair Crooke
Something is ‘up’. When two Financial Times columnists – pillars of the western Establishment – raise a warning flag, we must take note: Martin Wolf was first off, with a piece dramatically headlined: The looming 100-year, US-China Conflict. No ‘mere’ trade war, he implied, but a full-spectrum struggle. Then his FT colleague Edward Luce, pointed… Continue reading
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S&P Bearish on 5G, Tesla’s Coil and the T-Mobile Merger By Renee Parsons
The FCC, the telecoms and cooperating MSM continue their resolute pr campaign to sell 5G to an unsuspecting American public as if the technology is up and running at effortless full capacity. The truth is that even as ‘spotty’ coverage is being established in large urban markets, the telecoms are well aware that there are… Continue reading
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UK housing crisis: 630,000 young people face homelessness in retirement By Alice Summers
Hundreds of thousands of young people in the UK risk homelessness when they retire because they will be unable to afford skyrocketing private rental costs. Continue reading
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Orwell, Hitchens, And The Hollow Self-Righteousness Of Anti-Communism
In addition to all of the propaganda pieces that anti-communists use to legitimize their position, they often utilize a more general rhetorical tool, which is the denunciations of communism that have come from two of the last century’s most prominent intellectuals: George Orwell and Christopher Hitchens. These figures maintain large cult followings and are widely seen… Continue reading
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At Least If We All Die the Capitalists Die Too
17 May 2019 — Anti-Capital [3 August 2019: I’m republishing this essay for those who have missed it because I think it’s really important to read given current events. WB] Broletariat When sunlight strikes the Earth several things happen to it. First of all, not all of that sunlight gets to the land and water… Continue reading
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War, empire and racism in the Anthropocene By Dr. Nafeez Ahmed
The Anthropocene. A proposed new geological epoch which designates a shift to a planetary age dominated by human impacts across the geological processes of the Earth. Continue reading
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Life Expectancy Falters in the UK Slow Death but Fast Profits for the Agrochemical Sector By Colin Todhunter
A special report in the Observer newspaper in the UK on 23 June 2019 asked the question: Why is life expectancy faltering? The piece noted that for the first time in 100 years, Britons are dying earlier. The UK now has the worst health trends in Western Europe. Continue reading
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The Discovery and Rediscovery of Metabolic Rift
Video: Ian Angus discusses the scientific developments that led Marx to develop metabolic rift theory, and a new generation to rediscover it in our time. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 