Capitalism
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Monsanto/Bayer Moving to Genome Edit Fruits and More By F. William Engdahl
Not surprising, Monsanto, today hidden behind the Bayer logo, as the world leader in patented GMO seeds and the probable carcinogenic Roundup herbicide with glyphosate, is attempting to quietly patent genetically modified or GMO varieties of fruits using controversial gene-editing. The “beauty” of this for Monsanto/Bayer is that in the USA, according to a recent… Continue reading
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Report to Davos meeting points to deepening contradictions of global capitalism By Nick Beams
The report prepared by the World Economic Forum (WEF) for its annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland, next week presents a picture of the ongoing disintegration of all the mechanisms—economic, political and ideological—that have served to sustain the global capitalist order in the post-war period. Continue reading
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The US political crisis reaches fever pitch
The political battle within the US ruling elite is reaching a new peak of intensity, with an ongoing media campaign portraying Trump as a Russian agent, Democratic Party demands to cancel the State of the Union address, and Trump’s response Thursday afternoon, blocking a planned foreign trip by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that would have… Continue reading
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Every Woman Is a Working Woman: Silvia Federici in The Boston Review
Silvia Federici, an Italian expat living in New York, attended the conference and afterward returned to New York to found the New York Wages for Housework Committee. In the following years, Wages for Housework committees were launched in a number of U.S. cities. In each case, these groups organized autonomously, apart from waged male workers.… Continue reading
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A Tale of Two Austerities By John Clarke
The greatly intensified austerity that has been imposed in the UK since 2010 has been looked to with considerable approval by right wing imitators. Among countries that had developed a relatively adequate ‘welfare state’, the attack on social provision in the UK has been outstandingly severe. One of the key elements of this has been… Continue reading
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Rosa Luxembourg – A Documentary
16 January 2019 — Youtube Documentary written and directed by Margarethe von Trotta. Continue reading
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Which war-torn city in a third-world country was this man starving to death in?
TruePublica Editor: I need not comment on the following social media post that was published on Christmas Eve. Tom Pride from Pride’s Purge asks the question: Which war-torn city in a third-world country was this man starving to death in? The answer – Birkenhead, England, Christmas Eve, 2018. Continue reading
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UK parliament votes down Prime Minister May’s Brexit deal By Robert Stevens and Chris Marsden
May was defeated by a majority of 230, with 432 MPs against the deal and just 202 for in the biggest vote against a sitting prime minister in history. Continue reading
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UK Brexit Vote Reflects a Deep Crisis in Capitalism (Pt 1/2)
Had the British been presented with the option, people might choose a socialist Britain over a capitalist EU, but they are not given that choice, say Prof. Leo Panitch of York University and Jon Lansman of the British Labour Party’s National Executive Committee Continue reading
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Walls or Roads By James Petras
History is told by Walls and Roads which have marked significant turning points in the relation between peoples and states. Continue reading
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TOWARDS A UNIFIED THEORY OF THE CAUSES AND LIMITS TO THE INDUSTRIAL CYCLE
Capitalism is society’s first chaotic industrial society which by tending to recurring crises demonstrates its transitory nature. Marx was not the first to note the industrial cycle, it was well known to Smith and Ricard. Marx provided a primary and subsidiary explanation for these recurrences, but because this explanation was disjointed, it led those who… Continue reading
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The struggle against austerity and the fight for the United Socialist States of Europe
Today’s People’s Assembly against Austerity demonstration in London declares that a Labour government led by Jeremy Corbyn is the only alternative to a Conservative government bent on destroying jobs, wages and vital social services. Continue reading
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UK: The 2018 State of the Nation Report
Britain does produce an annual state of the nation report other than one referring to social mobility. The Social Mobility Commission’s 2017 report (see link below) starts with the words: “Britain is a deeply divided nation.” Their report is interesting this year as it ventures more broadly into areas such as education, employability and housing… Continue reading
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Affaire ExxonMobil: Nicolas Maduro publishes his evidence
According to the US transnational ExxonMobil, on 22 December 2018 the Venezuelan navy expelled two ships that were carrying out prospecting works in the territorial waters between Venezuela and Guyana. Venezuela and Guyana are disputing to which of them these waters belong. On the faith of this communiqué, Guyana, followed by the United States and… Continue reading
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Open Letter to Bayer CropScience: Bayer Has Never Been Transparent In Its Life! by Colin Todhunter
9 January 2019 — Counter Currents “Transparency creates trust. At Bayer, we embrace our responsibility to communicate how we assess our products’ safety — and we recognize that people around the world want more information around glyphosate. This month, we published more than 300 study summaries on the safety of glyphosate on our dedicated transparency website. “ Continue reading
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No one rules Britain By Anthony Barnett
Reckless Opportunists is an astonishing account of the British ruling class in decomposition. It is the result of twenty years of intense research, over 350 interviews with the heads of corporations, senior civil servants, journalists, politicians and public relations firms. Continue reading
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Death to the DIY Society By Ted RALL
I admit it: My bias derived from self-interest. I was a bag boy. But that didn’t make me wrong when I reacted to the news that supermarkets would make customers bag their own groceries. This, I told my friends at the time, is the first brick in a road to perdition. Continue reading
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The Stomach-Churning Violence of the Agrochemical Oligopoly by Colin Todhunter
As humans, we have evolved with the natural environment over millennia. We have learned what to eat and what not to eat, what to grow and how to grow it and our diets have developed accordingly. We have hunted, gathered, planted and harvested. Our overall survival as a species has been based on gradual, emerging… Continue reading
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AI Should Improve Quality of Life, Not Make Capitalists Rich – Lester Earnest on RAI (1-5)
Artificial Intelligence can make the world better or be a tool for war – says Lester Earnest, founder of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at Stanford, on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay Continue reading
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The global slowdown: US trade war comes home By Andre Damon
The term “decoupling,” referring to the severing of trade ties between the United States and China, has, to quote one commentator, become the “talk of Washington.” The two countries are embroiled in what has been widely described as a “new cold war,” in which, in the words of former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, an “iron… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 