Capitalism
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5G and the Chaotic U.S Led System: The U.S. Has Been Eclipsed in Every Sphere but War By Glen Ford
US rulers promised that technology would bring the return of the millions of jobs that were outsourced to low-wage countries, but America has lost the hi-tech race and excels only in weapons of war. Continue reading
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The Priory Group: ‘morally bankrupt’ company makes millions for owners while young people die in its care
Last month, Priory Healthcare was fined £300,000 after 14 year-old Amy El-Keria died in one of its hospitals. Priory’s prosecution for health and safety violations was the first of its kind and the result of years of campaigning by Amy’s family. Continue reading
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Bayer, Dow, L’Oreal using potentially harmful chemicals illegally – investigation
More than 650 companies are breaking European chemical safety laws, according to an investigation from German environmental group BUND. As a result, potentially harmful chemicals can be found in food, cosmetics, and toys. Continue reading
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2019 or 1939 squared
It is 80 years since the last global war. Technology and culture have advanced significantly since then. In the Second World War, it was the mastery of the air that proved decisive. Now it will be mastery of space. What took a thousand bombers to accomplish can now be achieved many times over with a… Continue reading
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How Coca-Cola Controls and Manipulates Research
FOIA documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know show Coca-Cola’s research agreements with certain universities give it the right to review and comment on studies before publication, and intellectual property rights connected to the research Continue reading
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Exposing the Dirty Business Behind the Designer Label By Michelle Chen
Even before it gets worn once, that new T-shirt you bought is already dirtier than you can imagine. It’s soaked through with toxic waste, factory smog and plastic debris—all of which is likely just a few spin cycles away from an incinerator, or maybe a landfill halfway around the world. Our obsession with style rivals… Continue reading
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The Limits of Green Energy Under Capitalism by David Klein
Renewable energy is expanding rapidly all around the world. The energy capacity of newly installed solar projects in 2017, for instance, exceeded the combined increases from coal, gas and nuclear plants. During the past eight years alone, global investment in renewables was $2.2 trillion, and optimism has soared along with investments. Continue reading
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The ReCommonsEurope Manifesto: A Left-Wing Initiative in Europe
While the campaign for the European elections on 26 May (on the 23 May in the UK) draws very little interest outside of the UK, the initiative launched by ReCommonsEurope with its ‘Manifesto for a new popular internationalism in Europe’ is on to a promising start. Continue reading
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Embracing industrial policy and economic planning is essential to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and environmental damage. By Kevin Cashman
One of Margaret Thatcher’s often-used slogans was TINA, or “there is no alternative.” There is no alternative, she meant, to the neoliberalism that became dominant in the 1970s and 1980s. After a coup led to the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, this idea led to even more smug declarations of victory for the… Continue reading
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Fine dust and fossil capital in Korea
There is a good reason why there are blue skies in much of the United States while those of us living in Northeast Asia are choking — most of their factories have moved over here. Continue reading
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NHS : FoI requests show planned shutdown of services
By TruePublica: The NHS is no longer facing a crisis – it’s worse than that. The reality is that an inward collapse, an implosion, is now the most likely scenario in the face of a government unwilling to take action, whilst its privatisation plans and disastrous handling of Brexit continues. Continue reading
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A Climate Emergency Manifesto to avert climate catastrophe
16 May 2019 — MROnline We only have one planet. Let’s save it. Now! Originally published: GUE/NGL (European United Left/ Nordic Green Left ) (April 2019) Introduction The latest IPCC Special Report (October 2018) is our last alarm bell for stopping mass human and environmental destruction caused by human-induced climate change. Its findings were alarming-rapid,… Continue reading
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UK: Government of Denial: Crisis? What Crisis?
Looking at the Conservative party as it is right now, it would be easy to believe they are of a different species, who speak a different language, who came from a different world – a different dimension even. Every day a new statistic of our failing nation feels more like the opening of festering wounds,… Continue reading
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Inequality and risk – both rising by Michael Roberts
The US Federal Reserve governor Lael Brainard, in a speech in Washington, revealed the extent of rising inequality in the US. Using the latest income and wealth data, she outlined that the incomes and wealth of working-class (the American establishments like to use ‘middle-class’) households in the US have been squeezed in the last 50 years and… Continue reading
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Productivity, investment and profitability By michael roberts
Radical economic historian Adam Tooze recently tweeted that “Whenever I see figures for the decline in the (advanced economies) AE productivity growth rate I am left puzzling: do we really have an explanation? Do we really have an explanation?” Continue reading
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Book Review: Fascism and Dictatorship: The Third International and the Problem of Fascism By Fabian Van Onzen
Around the world, fascism and the extreme right have made significant gains. In Hungary, Viktor Orban has established a fiercely xenophobic, anti-immigrant government, with participation of the fascist Jobbik party. In the United States and Brazil, Trump and Bolsonaro took power with the support a fascist mass movement that openly attacks Muslims, immigrants, anti-communism, and… Continue reading
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BAT shifts nearly $1bn out of developing countries into one UK office
Tax Justice Network: For every dollar British American Tobacco (BAT) paid in tax in the countries it operates in, the giant multinational shifted more than half a dollar that would have been taxed locally to a UK subsidiary where BAT paid almost no tax.[1] New analysis by the Tax Justice Network estimates Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya,… Continue reading
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The social crisis and the global eruption of US imperialism
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has spent the past week staging provocations and making military threats everywhere from the Caribbean shores of Venezuela to the Persian Gulf, the South China Sea and the Arctic Circle. Continue reading
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The West: Full Spectrum Dementia By Stephen Sefton
Journalism has never been free of propaganda. News has always been produced and marketed like any other commodity, satisfying and shaping consumers’ opinions, loyalties and taste. Over the last thirty years, the US elites and their allies have effectively eliminated conventional journalism in favor of propaganda and counter-propaganda serving their relentless war on the majority… Continue reading
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Uber drivers to participate in global strike By Leslie Murtagh and Jessie Thomas
Thousands of drivers for Uber, Lyft and other ride-sharing companies are expected to join in a strike today, logging off their apps at peak hours to press demands for livable wages and job security. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 