Capitalism
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Nitrogen Crisis: A neglected threat to Earth’s life support systems
Part One of a discussion of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself. Continue reading
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Glyphosate Worse Than We Could Imagine By F. William Engdahl
As new studies continue to point to a direct link between the widely-used glyphosate herbicide and various forms of cancer, the agribusiness lobby fights ferociously to ignore or discredit evidence of human and other damage. A second US court jury case just ruled that Monsanto, now a part of the German Bayer AG, must pay… Continue reading
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Capitalism: A delicate moment
14 April 2019 — Michael Roberts The IMF-World Bank meeting in Washington this weekend revealed again that the world economy is slowing down and the prospect of an outright recession is getting much higher. The IMF economists cut their outlook for global growth to the lowest since the global financial crisis of 2009 amid a… Continue reading
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Yes, Migration IS a Class Issue
13 April 2019 — Novara Media With Bernie Sanders coming out against open borders, and Labour reaffirming their commitment to ending freedom of movement last week, you might well be wondering if along with pastels and culottes, socialism in one country is back. Continue reading
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Mystery Killer Spans the Globe by Robert Hunziker
Public health experts have been warning for decades that overuse of antibiotics reduces the effectiveness of drugs that cure bacterial infections. At least 2,000,000 Americans get antibiotic-resistant infections per year. Continue reading
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No shortcuts: The climate revolution must be ecosocialist
Only a mass socialist, feminist, internationalist, pro-peasant, anti-racist, indigenous, and anti-colonial movement can save humanityThis declaration was drafted by Daniel Tanuro and adopted by the national leadership of Belgium’s Gauche Anticapitaliste. Translated for Climate & Capitalism by Richard Fidler, who blogs at Life on the Left, with light editing by Ian Angus. Continue reading
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Climate Catastrophe and Extinction Rebellion by Paul Street
In the last years of his life, Dr. Martin Luther King spoke against what he called “the triple evils that are interrelated” – economic inequality, racism, and militarism. If King were alive today, he’d be talking about the five evils that are interrelated, adding patriarchy and Ecocide, the destruction of livable ecology. He’d also be… Continue reading
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Time to shun the financial kakistocracy By Terry Bell
South Africa’s trade unions were probably just as confused as most people when a considerable fuss was made last week about the decisions of ratings agency Moody’s. The agency first said it would not publicise its views on South Africa’s status before the May 8 elections. Days later, it changed tack. Continue reading
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The geopolitics of oil in the Trump era By Thierry Meyssan
The United States have become the leading world producer of hydrocarbons. As from now, they are using their dominant position exclusively to maximise their profits, and do not hesitate to eliminate their major rivals in oil production, plunging their citizens into misery. Although in the past, access to Middle East oil was a vital necessity… Continue reading
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No Alarms and No Surprises? What Lyft’s Slump Tells Us About Modern Capitalism by James Meadway
Ride-hailing app Lyft’s initial public offering (IPO) last week saw the company valued at $24.3bn in its first day of trading shares – before crashing back below its $72-a-share initial purchase price, where it has knocked around for the rest of the week. Short-sellers (those betting on further price falls) have reportedly gone into “overdrive”,… Continue reading
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Q&A: Manipulators, Optimism, Utopia, Trump, Writing Tips & More By Caitlin Johnstone
While we’re all waiting to find out what’s happening with Julian Assange, I thought it might be fun to do a little Q & A with my readers to pass the time while that singularly important crisis resolves. I asked for some questions on social media and got way more than I had expected. Here are a few of the ones that… Continue reading
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Samir Amin – organic internationalist
Taking as its point of departure this observation, itself a feature of 50 books by Samir Amin, the film depicts the audacious struggles of, as well as interviews with, addresses by and special moments involving this most outstanding intellectual of the South. In the film Samir Amin discusses the political economy of development, capitalism and… Continue reading
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Invisible Leviathan – Marx’s law of value in the twilight of capitalism By michael roberts
The message of Murray Smith’s book is aptly portrayed by its title, Invisible Leviathan. The book sets out to explain why Marx’s law of value lurks invisibly behind the movement of markets in modern capitalism and yet ultimately explains the disruptive and regular recurrence of crises in production and investment that so damage the livelihoods (and… Continue reading
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From Brexit to Trump, it’s death by 1,000 cuts By Jonathan Cook
Our attention is being diverted away from the political to the cultural, medical and technical. When our elites have no solutions to the most pressing problems of the day, when all the objective evidence indicates that the political system they oversee and have designed to enrich themselves is driving us over a cliff edge, with… Continue reading
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Getting longer but lower By Michael Roberts
We’ve had falling economic activity indicators in many major economies; and contracting industrial production in Europe and Japan. The business activity indicators in the US are the highest among the G7 top capitalist economies, but even there, they are beginning to fall back. Continue reading
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The fight for life v. Monsanto/Bayer AG
In this conversation with Chris Hedges, environmental activist and author, Vandana Shiva, talks about Monsanto/Bayer AG and other big AG players interests in India and her fight to protect life forms, seed varieties and farmers. Continue reading
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Waterstones paying millions to US ‘vulture fund’ owners while denying staff living wage
29 March 2019 — CorporateWatch Waterstones staff are demanding to be paid the living wage. Management say the company can’t afford it but an investigation by Corporate Watch has found: Continue reading
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The Fortress World of Capitalism vs. the Beautiful Possibilities of Cooperation By Cynthia Kaufman
Our beloved world is entering an increasingly unstable period, full of dangers and also full of possibilities. In many countries, old political parties are crumbling faster and anyone thought imaginable. Old geopolitical alliances have come unglued as the US comes to exercise its role as world hegemon in new and unpredictable ways. The development of… Continue reading
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The new Grand Strategy of the United States by Thierry Meyssan
Many people think that the United States is very active, but does not succeed in much. For example, it is said that its wars in the Greater Middle East are a succession of failures. But for Thierry Meyssan, the USA has a coherent military, commercial and diplomatic strategy. According to its own objectives, it advances… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 