Capitalism
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How the people could really govern By Terry Bell
The people shall govern. So says the Freedom Charter. And so they do, says the ANC along with all the parties represented in parliament. But this is a lie. And awareness of this fact is what has caused such widespread disillusionment with mainstream politics and political parties. In our party list electoral system this is… Continue reading
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SONA 2019: Mbeki without the poetry By Terry Bell
South Africa is again in the midst of that five-yearly cycle when politicians make extravagant promises that, on even cursory examination, ignore reality. And that does not even mean looking ahead to the consequences of the fourth industrial revolution that the world has already embarked on. Continue reading
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Resolutely Promised Prosecutions of Climate Criminals May Force Urgent Climate Action By Gideon Polya
Eminent climate scientist Professor James Hansen has published a must-read, 55-page summary of the worsening climate emergency. In short, to correct the Earth’s presently disastrous energy imbalance we must urgently reduce the atmospheric CO2 to 342-373 ppm CO2 from the present disastrous 407 ppm CO2. Continue reading
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Oil, Agriculture and Imperialism: Averting the Fast-Track to Armageddon? By Colin Todhunter
The US’s hand-picked supposed leader-in-waiting, Juan Guaido, aims to facilitate the process and usher in a programme of ‘mass privatisation’ and ‘hyper-capitalism’ at the behest of his coup-instigating masters in Washington, thereby destroying the socialist revolution spearheaded by the late Hugo Chavez and returning to a capitalist oligarch-controlled economic system. Continue reading
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Leaked Wikileaks Doc Reveals US Military Use of IMF, World Bank as “Unconventional” Weapons By Whitney Webb
This “U.S. coup manual,” recently highlighted by WikiLeaks, serves as a reminder that the so-called “independence” of such financial institutions as The World Bank and IMF is an illusion and that they are among the many “financial weapons” regularly used by the U.S. government to bend countries to its will. Continue reading
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Corporate tax cuts in UK save big business billions of pounds By Barry Mason
Tax cuts being implemented by Theresa May’s Conservative government will save big business billions of pounds, as austerity measures continue to pauperise millions of workers. Corporation tax will be slashed from its current figure of 19 percent to a 17 percent rate effective from April 2020. Continue reading
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‘5G Will Be a Global Catastrophe’: Activist Warns of Massive ‘Human Guinea Pigs’ Trial
As word begins to spread about the corporate-government collusion in what appears to be an increasingly reckless roll-out of the new military-grade 5G cellular technology, activists around the world are now beginning to elevate this issue to the level of a bona fide public health crisis. Not surprisingly, government officials and corporate sponsors are attempting… Continue reading
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It’s finally here: Worlds End!
These are common reactions when people learn about the reality of climate change. Similarly, when people think about capitalism it can seem as though nothing can be done to change it, that it’s too big, too strong. Maybe that’s just the way the world is. But things change. Worlds end… New ones begin. Continue reading
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NHS 10-year plan: Recipe for further attacks on services and privatisation in UK By Ajanta Silva
As if everyone was oblivious to the last nine years of austerity, including huge cuts to the NHS budget and privatization of health services, May claimed the Tories would be the saviours of the NHS over the next decade with the launch of the Long Term Plan (LTP). Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides Editors’ picks
6 February 2019 — Sustainable Pulse Sri Lankan Experts Receive Top Scientific Award for Revealing Lethal Truth about Glyphosate Two public health researchers who battled powerful corporate interests to uncover the deadly effects of industrial herbicides, solving a medical mystery and protecting the health of farming communities across the world, will receive the 2019 Scientific… Continue reading
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State of Fear: Trump unleashes tirade against socialism
For the first time in American history, a president of the United States, in a nationwide television address, denounced the growing popular support for socialism. “We are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country,” Trump declared. He pledged, “Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.” His… Continue reading
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Brexit, Free Ports and the super-exploitation of the working class By Steve James
Boris Johnson, the leading Brexiteer and former foreign secretary, spoke last month at an event organised by Lord Bamford, the billionaire chief executive of earth moving equipment manufacturer JCB. Johnson reportedly earned £10,000 for his grovelling speech, littered with droll references to JCB’s products. Continue reading
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Is Oil Behind Washington’s Venezuela Coup Madness? By F. William Engdahl
On January 23 US Vice President Pence sent a message via Twitter that Washington recognized the 35-year-old Speaker of the Venezuela National Assembly, Juan Guaido, as the “legitimate” President of the troubled country, and not elected President Maduro. The fact that it was first Pence and not the US President, who seemed forced to play… Continue reading
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MUST READ! Trump’s Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony By Michael Hudson
The end of America’s unchallenged global economic dominance has arrived sooner than expected, thanks to the very same Neocons who gave the world the Iraq, Syria and the dirty wars in Latin America. Just as the Vietnam War drove the United States off gold by 1971, its sponsorship and funding of violent regime change wars… Continue reading
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A citizens’ path to true democracy By Terry Bell
There is a clear lesson — amounting to a wake-up call — for every trade unionist in the allegations and evidence emerging from the Zondo Commission into state capture. It is that the perception in the labour movement that the present economic system is inherently rotten, is true. Continue reading
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Organic Bytes 31 January 2019
31 January 2019 — Organic Consumers Association ESSAY OF THE WEEK ‘Radical Rethink’ A new study calling for a “radical rethink” of the relationship between policymakers and corporations reinforces what we’ve been saying for years: Our triple global crises of deteriorating public health, world hunger and global warming share common root causes. Continue reading
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The Political Economy of Half-Earth By Troy Vettese
31 January 2019 — Socialist Project – The Bullet That the “extermination, enslavement, and entombment of the aboriginal population in mines […and] the transformation of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black skin” was essential to capitalism’s emergence has long been recognized. Few, however, realise that capitalism has been changing the climate… Continue reading
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The Empire’s “Left Intellectuals” Call for Regime Change. The Role of “Progressives” and the Antiwar Movement By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
What is the position of the West’s “Progressives” with regard to regime change in Venezuela? Continue reading
The New Dark Age 