Capitalism
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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
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Labour’s John McDonnell embraces Blairite “new economy” plan By Laura Tiernan
Its authors present a damning picture of falling living standards, stagnating wages, a wealth divide between London and the regions, and 40 years of declining investment in the real economy while financial wealth and CEO pay has soared. However, the claims made that the plan marks a historic “paradigm shift” that would overturn decades of… Continue reading
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The implications of US-China trade war By Nick Beams
The US is demanding that the trade deficit with China be reduced, but the conflict does not merely centre on that issue. China has made offers to increase its imports from the US, all of which have been rejected. The key US demand is that the Chinese government completely abandon its program of economic development… Continue reading
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Economist magazine calls for soldier MPs to lead UK By Julie Hyland
The New Statesman tells us: “Perhaps the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq will help to produce a new type of one-nation politics that can bring Britain back together after the shocks of the financial crisis and Brexit” Continue reading
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Chevron Arbitration Ruling Against Ecuador ‘Completely Off Base’
A secret corporate arbitration panel in the Hague ruled that Ecuadorean courts’ $9.5 billion judgement against Chevron for environmental damages is illegal and should not be enforced. We speak to the plaintiffs’ lawyer Steven Donzinger about the ruling (inc transcript) Continue reading
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America: The Farewell Tour – Part One
In a conversation about his new book America: The Farewell Tour, Chris Hedges tells journalist, Hugh Hamilton, the country’s institutions and practices rooted in an economic system of capitalism, are unraveling while also making a call for action. Continue reading
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Trumponomics: Is Post-Fordism on Reverse Gear? By K M Seethi
US President Donald Trump has been speaking with hyperbole, over the last several months, that his ‘trade war’ with China, tough bargains with the European Union as well as the emerging economies (like India) would bring the ‘American glory’ back, besides generating more jobs in his country. More recently, Trump rolled out a red carpet… Continue reading
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To overcome climate paralysis, unite for system change By Victor Wallis
Hundreds of millions of people who should – and could – be waging the battle of and for their lives, are instead propelled by a structured inertia, part “practical” and part ideological, to continue with their daily routines – of heating or cooling, driving, flying, over-indulging in one or another addiction, and acquiescing in wars… Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 30 August 2018: Monsanto/Bayer/Agent Orange
30 August 2018 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Are Banned Drugs in Your Meat? Ketamine – a hallucinogenic party drug and experimental antidepressant. Phenylbutazone – an anti-inflammatory deemed too risky for human use. Chloramphenicol – a powerful antibiotic linked to potentially deadly anemia. All these drugs are prohibited in beef, poultry, and pork consumed in… Continue reading
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