Capitalism
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Squalid London – Our Own Swamp. Corrupt Money and The City of London By True Publica and Craig Murray
As HMS BrexitBrittania looks ever more likely to head in the same southerly direction as mothership Titanic, there is one backstop where all parliamentarians can agree – The City of London, often referred to as Britain’s second empire, must be saved at all costs. Continue reading
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Crap’s Last Crap or How we Crapped Out By William Bowles
21 October 2018 — Investigating Imperialism With crappy apologies to Samuel Beckett It was just a question of time before the crap spilled over the edge of the bowl. The basement was the first to fill up of course but who looks in the basement; out-of-sight, out-of-mind. Continue reading
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The Geopolitics of Human Gene Editing By Ulson Gunnar
A cursory warning was left by renowned physics professor Stephen Hawking regarding a future where a race of superhumans, manipulating their DNA, would taking control of their own evolution. The warning came just before his death in March of this year. Continue reading
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Book Review: A Marxist History of Capitalism
An important work of Marxist history and theory restores class struggle to central place in explaining how capitalism arose and grew, and can eventually be overcome Continue reading
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Reply to Trump: Global warming explained in three easy tweets
On October 14, on the CBS television program 60 Minutes, the president of the United States admitted that climate change is not a hoax. It is probably happening, he said, but he doesn’t know what is causing it, and he thinks it might change back. Less than 24 hours later, on October 15, Stefan Rahmstorf,… Continue reading
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EU Polystyrene Ban: Sign Petition
The European Parliament Environment Committee just voted for a bunch of great changes to strengthen a law on plastic pollution — but they also added a dangerous loophole. We can influence this process now, and a strong EU law will reduce plastic pollution from our shores, no matter what happens with Brexit. Continue reading
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Britain is More of a Fake State than Anything Else By Grete Mautner
Blatant lies have been a feature of the British political system for a long while. Whitehall’s tried and tested ways of manipulating the general public are used to distract attention from crucial topics. But what’s even more curious is that inside the Whitehall bunkers where they come up with their own definitions for such manipulations,… Continue reading
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CAPITALISM COULD COST US THE EARTH!
Capitalism, society’s first industrial society, has economically raped this planet in order to maximise profit. Capitalism only recognises costs when they are paid for. Anything which reduces paid costs improves profit margin. One way to reduce cost price is to dump or pump pollution into the planet’s digestive tract, which is free, and hope it… Continue reading
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A US-inspired reorganisation is about to hit the NHS – help fund the legal challenge By Jenny Shepherd
NHS plans due to take effect next spring could make general healthcare as difficult to access as mental healthcare already is – and lock future governments into long contracts with private firms, warn campaigners. Continue reading
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Food, Justice, Violence and Capitalism By Colin Todhunter
In 2015, India’s internal intelligence agency wrote a report that depicted various campaigners and groups as working against the national interest. The report singled out environmental activists and NGOs that had been protesting against state-corporate policies. Those largely undemocratic and unconstitutional policies were endangering rivers, forests and local ecologies, destroying and oppressing marginalised communities, entrenching… Continue reading
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Labour Party-run councils escalate austerity in UK By Alice Summers
The decades-long onslaught on the public provision of services by the British ruling elite, exacerbated since the 2008 global financial crash, has led to a crisis within local councils across the country. Reports appear on a daily basis detailing the savage effects of budget cuts on local communities, with virtually every municipality witnessing an increase… Continue reading
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The Lies of our (Financial) Times By James Petras
The leading financial publications have misled their political and investor subscribers of emerging crises and military defeats which have precipitated catastrophic political and economic losses. The most egregious example is the Financial Times (FT) a publication which is widely read by the business and financial elite. Continue reading
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On Capitalism and Eternal War. NATO as a “World Government”? By Christopher Black
On September 14, in an address to the far right American organisation called The Heritage Foundation, the NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, described NATO in effect to be a world government prepared for eternal war. He declared NATO to be the “guarantor of peace and stability in Europe since 1949,” when in fact it has… Continue reading
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Audio: Michael Hudson – Deciphering Geo-Political Games
Professor Michael Hudson discusses the globalisation fallout as new trading blocs distance themselves from US dollar denominated trade. Will the US be able to maintain its imperialist tendencies in light of these trends? How much further can the rentiers push their free-for-all? The show finishes with an overview of Michael’s new book ‘And forgive them… Continue reading
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Theresa May Tells American Investors – Brexit Britain Is Up for Grabs By Graham Vanbergen
Britain will be “unequivocally pro-business” after it leaves the European Union, Theresa May has promised American investors. To neoliberal politicians, this was always the endgame. The prime minister told the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York that the UK will be the low tax, high-skilled place to invest after Brexit. Continue reading
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Death and Extinction of the Bees. The Role of Monsanto? By Joachim Hagopian
Perhaps the biggest foreboding danger of all facing humans is the loss of the global honeybee population. The consequence of a dying bee population impacts man at the highest levels on our food chain, posing an enormously grave threat to human survival. Since no other single animal species plays a more significant role in producing… Continue reading
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The Fracking Industry’s Water Nightmare: Injection Wells Damage Production Wells, Rising Disposal Costs Will Increase Industry Losses
The fracking industry in the US currently has no feasible way to dispose of its wastewater using environmentally safe methods … and yet it pushes on full speed ahead. Continue reading
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A world on borrowed time Dr Andrew Glikson
Acting as the lungs of the biosphere, over tens of millions of years the atmosphere developed an oxygen-rich carbon-low composition, allowing the flourishing of mammals. The anthropogenic release to the atmosphere to date of more than 600 Gigaton of carbon (GtC) is reversing this trend, threatening to return the Earth to conditions which preceded the… Continue reading
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Don’t Share This! EU’s New Copyright Law Could Kill the Free Internet By Neil Clark
It’s basically a battle between billionaires Axel Springer SE and Google. But it is ordinary internet users who will fall victim to the EU’s new copyright law, which urgently needs modification. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 